Abigail Spencer
Acting
1981-08-04 · 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.
Filmography
TheatersClean Hands
2026 · Movie
Best Medicine
2026 · Series
The Actor
2025 · Movie
With Love, Meghan
2025 · Series
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Movie
Extended Family
2023 · Series
Shatter Belt
2023 · Series
Harry & Meghan
2022 · Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Series
Rebel
2021 · Series
Reprisal
2019 · Series
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019 · Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Wayne
2019 · Series
Buttons
2018 · Movie
9-1-1
2018 · Series
The Sweet Life
2017 · Movie
Three Women
2017 · Movie
Timeless
2016 · Series
A Walk in Winter
2015 · Movie
H8RZ
2015 · Movie
A Beautiful Now
2015 · Movie
Stars
2015 · Movie
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015 · Movie
Winter Light
2015 · Movie
This Is Where I Leave You
2014 · Movie
The Forger
2014 · Movie
True Detective
2014 · Series
Rectify
2013 · Series
Kilimanjaro
2013 · Movie
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Movie
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013 · Movie
Chasing Mavericks
2012 · Movie
Burning Love
2012 · Series
This Means War
2012 · Movie
Cowboys & Aliens
2011 · Movie
Suits
2011 · Series
The Glades
2010 · Series
In My Sleep
2010 · Movie
Rex Is Not Your Lawyer
2010 · Series
Castle
2009 · Series
Childrens Hospital
2008 · Series
Jekyll
2007 · Movie
Moonlight
2007 · Series
Private Practice
2007 · Series
Mad Men
2007 · Series
Backyards & Bullets
2007 · Movie
The Wedding Bells
2007 · Series
Angela's Eyes
2006 · Series
Ghost Whisperer
2005 · Series
Killer Instinct
2005 · Series
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Series
Bones
2005 · Series
Fathers and Sons
2005 · Movie
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Graduation Night
2003 · Movie
Campfire Stories
2001 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Gilmore Girls
2000 · Series
Law & Order
1990 · Series
People's Choice Awards
1975 · Series
Here and Now
Movie