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.
Acting
TV
Grey's Anatomy
as Megan Hunt
2005
Movie
Oz the Great and Powerful
as May
2013
TV
Suits
as Dana Scott
2011
TV
How I Met Your Mother
as Carol
2005
Movie
Cowboys & Aliens
as Alice
2011
TV
True Detective
as Gena Brune
2014
Movie
This Means War
as Katie
2012
TV
Bones
as Phillipa Fitz
2005
TV
9-1-1
as Detective Amber Braeburn
2018
TV
Castle
as Sarah Reed
2009
TV
Ghost Whisperer
as Cindy Brown
2005
TV
Mad Men
as Suzanne Farrell
2007
Movie
This Is Where I Leave You
as Quinn Altman
2014
TV
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Becky Lester
2000
TV
Gilmore Girls
as Megan
2000
TV
Timeless
as Lucy Preston
2016
TV
Law & Order
as Michelle Burns
1990
Movie
Chasing Mavericks
as Brenda Hesson
2012
Movie
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
as Lisa Wyrick
2013
TV
Wayne
as Donna Luccetti
2019
Movie
The Forger
as DEA Agent Catherine Paisley
2014
TV
Private Practice
as Rachel
2007
TV
Rectify
as Amantha Holden
2013
TV
Moonlight
as Simone Walker
2007