I was not fully aware of Carrie Preston before tuning into the show, and I also didn’t know she was married to Michael Emerson until he appeared in Elsbeth during the last couple of episodes of 2024.

In 2007, Preston was cast in one episode of the megahit drama to play Emily Linus, the mother of Emerson’s character Ben. While she showed up in a flashback, not one of her real-life husband’s ...