Abigail Spencer

Abigail Leigh Spencer (born August 4, 1981) is an American actress. She is best known for her performances in the films Cowboys & Aliens, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, Oz the Great and Powerful, and This Is Where I Leave You, and for roles in television series Angela's Eyes, Mad Men, Hawthorne, and Suits. She currently stars as Amantha Holden in the Sundance Channel drama series Rectify. Early life Spencer was born and raised in Gulf Breeze, Florida, the daughter of Lydia Ann (Brown) and surfer Yancy Spencer III. She has two brothers, Yancy Spencer IV (born c. 1973) and Sterling Spencer (born c. 1986). Career Spencer's first major acting role was playing Rebecca "Becca" Tyree on ABC soap opera All My Children from June 3, 1999 to April 10, 2001. She later starred in Lifetime Television original series Angela's Eyes, which was cancelled on December 1, 2006. In the following years she began playing guest roles on television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, How I Met Your Mother, Private Practice and Castle. Spencer played the role of a blogging enthusiast in Twix advertisements, and portrayed Miss Farrell, a love interest to Don Draper, on AMC's Mad Men in 2009. In early 2011, she landed the lead role on ABC drama pilot Grace by Krista Vernoff. Spencer had previously played the title character in another Krista Vernoff drama pilot Introducing Lennie Rose in 2005. Spencer appeared in a recurring role as Dr. Erin Jameson on TNT series Hawthorne in 2010, and since 2011 has had a recurring role as Dana 'Scottie' Scott, Gabriel Macht's character's old rival, on the USA Network legal drama Suits. Spencer has appeared in several films, including In My Sleep (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), This Means War (2012), and Chasing Mavericks (2012), and she played the lead role in The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013). She appeared in fantasy adventure film Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, in 2013. As of 2013, Spencer has starred as Amantha Holden in the Sundance Channel original drama series Rectify. She was nominated for Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her performance in the series. Spencer played the lead role in the indie drama Beautiful Now, written by Daniela Amavia, about a passionate dancer who finds herself considering an extreme act when she reaches a crossroads in her life. She was nominated for a Madrid International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in film. In 2014, Spencer appeared opposite Jason Bateman in This Is Where I Leave You, an ensemble comedy directed by Shawn Levy, and starred with John Travolta and Christopher Plummer in The Forger. In October, 2014, Spencer joined the cast of the second season of HBO crime drama series, True Detective. Personal life Spencer married Andrew Pruett in 2004 and filed for divorce in February 2012. The couple have a son named Roman. In September 2014, Spencer (along with a number of other celebrities) was the victim of a hacking attack on Apple's cloud services suite iCloud, from which sexually explicit videos of Spencer's were stolen and leaked to the general public. While some victims of the attack have spoken out about it, Spencer remained silent and deactivated her Twitter account for a number of weeks before reactivating it.