Abigail Spencer
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.
59 acting credits
Acting · 59
Law & Order
1990
Grey's Anatomy
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Bones
2005
Suits
2011
Castle
2009
9-1-1
2018
Private Practice
2007
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Gilmore Girls
2000
Mad Men
2007
True Detective
2014
Ghost Whisperer
2005
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Childrens Hospital
2008
Timeless
2016
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Glades
2010
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Rectify
2013
Moonlight
2007
Burning Love
2012
Wayne
2019
This Is Where I Leave You
2014
Rebel
2021
Cowboys & Aliens
2011
Best Medicine
2026
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
Reprisal
2019
The Wedding Bells
2007
Extended Family
2023
This Means War
2012
Angela's Eyes
2006
Buttons
2018
Chasing Mavericks
2012
With Love, Meghan
2025
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013
Killer Instinct
2005
Harry & Meghan
2022
Shatter Belt
2023
The Forger
2014
Rex Is Not Your Lawyer
2010
The Sweet Life
2017
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Fathers and Sons
2005
Campfire Stories
2001
In My Sleep
2010
Graduation Night
2003
Kilimanjaro
2013
H8RZ
2015
Jekyll
2007
Backyards & Bullets
2007
A Walk in Winter
2015
Clean Hands
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A Beautiful Now
2015
Three Women
2017
Stars
2015
Here and Now
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