Celebrity Biographies
Jennifer Carpenter
Her face is very popular, because on television she embodies the stepsister of the psychopath who stars in the series Dexter . And although she has not yet had time to shoot much more, Jennifer Carpenter has a chance to stay at the top, due to her good work.
Born on December 7, 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky, Jennifer Leann Carpenter was a good student at Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic all-girls school in her hometown. She studied acting at the Juilliard School, one of the most prestigious schools in New York, and before graduating she had already been signed to premiere on Broadway “The Crucible”, a revision of the work by Arthur Miller , with Liam Neeson and Laura linney .
She made her film debut in a minor role in People Are Dead and could be seen in the comedy Two Chest-Haired Blondes . But she began to attract the attention of critics playing the character to which the title alluded in The Exorcism of Emily Rose , a possessed young woman with whom she put the hair on the public.
After playing a protester in Battle in Seattle , she became Ángela Vidal, Manuela Velasco ‘s character , in Quarantine , the American version of [Rec] . “I wasn’t thinking of shooting another horror film, I don’t like the genre and for some films you have to have the stomach. But I saw the original and it seemed to me that it was a unique case,” the actress commented.
But Jennifer Carpenter fully enshrined herself on the small screen, as Agent Debra Morgan, the stepsister of Dexter ‘s psychopathic protagonist . During filming, she fell in love with Michael C. Hall , the main actor, whom she married in 2008, but the marriage did not last long, since in 2010 both announced their divorce from her.