Abigail Spencer

Abigail Spencer is an American actress, producer and writer who grew up in Gulf Breeze, Florida. She started acting on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children, playing Rebecca Tyree from 1999 to 2001, and later starred in the Lifetime crime drama Angela's Eyes. From 2013 to 2016 she played Amantha Holden in the SundanceTV drama Rectify, earning a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination, and she went on to lead the NBC science fiction series Timeless as history professor Lucy Preston. Her film work includes 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), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), and The Forger (2014). On television she had recurring roles on Mad Men, Hawthorne, Suits, and Grey's Anatomy. Her company, Innerlight Films, has made award-winning short films.