Abigail Spencer
Actor
Biography
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
Cowboys & Aliens
as Alice 2011
This Means War
as Katie 2012
This Is Where I Leave You
as Quinn Altman 2014
Chasing Mavericks
as Brenda Hesson 2012
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
as Lisa Wyrick 2013
The Forger
as DEA Agent Catherine Paisley 2014
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
as Abigail 2015
In My Sleep
as Gwen 2010
The Sweet Life
as Lolita 2017
Buttons
as Annabelle (Adult) 2018
H8RZ
as Laura Sedgewick 2015
Kilimanjaro
as Yvonne 2013
Fathers and Sons
as Clarissa 2005
Jekyll
as Talia Carew 2007
Campfire Stories
as Melissa 2001
A Beautiful Now
as Romy 2015