Nicholas Andre Carpenter[1][2] is an American film director. He worked as a set production assistant on TV and on films such as Thank You for Smoking (2005) before going on to direct the 2009 horror anthology The Telling.[3]
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Nicholas Carpenter is the son of Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury astronauts, and Maria Roach Carpenter, daughter of film producer Hal Roach. 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 Los Angeles, where his father made his home after retiring from NASA in 1969.[1][2]
Carpenter and his current girlfriend, reality TV personality Bridget Marquardt, whom he directed in The Telling, reside in Sherman Oaks, California.[3] Both of them appeared in "Road Trippin'", a July 11, 2010 episode of the reality TV series Holly's World, which stars Marquardt's Girls Next Door costar and fellow Playboy model Holly Madison.