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Abigail Spencer

Abigail Spencer

Birthday: 1981-08-04 | Place of Birth: Gulf Breeze, Florida, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Rebel

as    Dr. Misha Nelson

2019
Reprisal

as    Doris Dearie / Katherine Harlow

2016
Timeless

as    Lucy Preston

2015
The Forger

as    DEA Agent Catherine Paisley

2015
H8RZ

as    Laura Sedgewick

2015
A Beautiful Now

as    Romy

2014
This Is Where I Leave You

as    Quinn Altman

2013
Rectify

as    Amantha Holden

2013
2013
Kilimanjaro

as    Yvonne

2012
Burning Love

as    Annie

2012
Chasing Mavericks

as    Brenda Hesson

2010
In My Sleep

as    Gwen

2006
Angela's Eyes

as    Angela Clinton