ARRIE PRESTON IS READY TO STEP INTO THE spotlight. The Emmy-winning veteran character actress will helm the title role in on CBS (February 29), playing Elsbeth Tascioni, a character she originated 14 years ago on and its spinoff “When this part came along, what and , says, “I’m more prepared for it than I would have been in my 20s when I was just sort of dreaming about it.” But she’s still finding acclaim in smaller roles, too. She recently appeared in a small but key role in Alexander Payne’s Oscar-nominated film . “I knew watching other Alexander movies that he was going to treat my character with the same amount of care that he treated [the main] three, and it comes across.”
