Abigail Spencer
Acting
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Abigail Leigh Spencer (born August 4, 1981) is an American actress known for her roles in several television series. A native of Florida, she began her career on the ABC daytime television soap opera All My Children playing Rebecca Tyree from 1999 to 2001, before going on to star in the short-lived Lifetime crime drama series Angela's Eyes (2006). Spencer has appeared in films such as In My Sleep (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), This Means War (2012), Chasing Mavericks (2012), The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013), Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), and This Is Where I Leave You (2014). On television, she has had recurring roles on Mad Men, Hawthorne, and Suits. From 2013 to 2016, Spencer starred as Amantha Holden in the SundanceTV drama series Rectify, for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. In 2016, Spencer began playing the leading role of history professor Lucy Preston in the NBC series Timeless.
Filmography
Clean Hands
2026
Best Medicine
2026
With Love, Meghan
2025
Extended Family
2023
Shatter Belt
2023
Harry & Meghan
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Rebel
2021
Reprisal
2019
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Wayne
2019
Buttons
2018
9-1-1
2018
The Sweet Life
2017
Three Women
2017
Timeless
2016
A Walk in Winter
2015
H8RZ
2015
A Beautiful Now
2015
Stars
2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
The Forger
2014
This Is Where I Leave You
2014
True Detective
2014
Rectify
2013
Kilimanjaro
2013
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013
Chasing Mavericks
2012
Burning Love
2012
This Means War
2012
Cowboys & Aliens
2011
Suits
2011
The Glades
2010
In My Sleep
2010
Rex Is Not Your Lawyer
2010
Castle
2009
Childrens Hospital
2008
Jekyll
2007
Moonlight
2007
Private Practice
2007
Mad Men
2007
Backyards & Bullets
2007
The Wedding Bells
2007
Angela's Eyes
2006
Ghost Whisperer
2005
Killer Instinct
2005
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Bones
2005
Fathers and Sons
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Graduation Night
2003
Campfire Stories
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Gilmore Girls
2000
Law & Order
1990
People's Choice Awards
1975
Here and Now