Nicholas Andre Carpenter Gray, Tara

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.gov. Accessed January 9, 2010. is an American film director. He worked as a set production assistant on TV and on films such as ''

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'' (2005) before going on to direct the 2009 horror anthology ''

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Early life

Nicholas Carpenter is the son of

Scott Carpenter Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury ...

, one of the original Mercury astronauts, and Maria Roach Carpenter, daughter of film producer

Hal Roach Harry Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr. Skretvedt, Randy (2016), ''Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies'', Bonaventure Press. p.608. (January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter, ...

. Carpenter has a brother, Matthew Scott; four half-siblings from his father's first marriage, Marc Scott, Kristen Elaine, Candace Noxon and Robyn Jay; and a half sibling from his father's third marriage, Zachary Scott. Carpenter grew up in

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, where his father made his home after retiring from

in 1969.

Personal life

In 2015, Carpenter became engaged to longtime girlfriend

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