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starring Abigail Spencer
A talented actress making a name for herself with every new project on both the massive and small screen, Abigail Spencer is quickly changing into one amongst Hollywood’s most in demand actors.

Abigail Spencer starred opposite Jon Hamm on Season 3 of AMC’s award winning and critically acclaimed original series Mad Men as Don Draper’s love interest, Suzanne Farrell or "The Teacher."

Spencer stars alongside Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, and Sam Rockwell in Jon Favreau’s action sci-fi thriller, Cowboys and Aliens, as Alice, Jake Lonergan's (Daniel Craig) driving force that propels his journey through the classic Western with the alien-invasion movie during a blazingly original approach. Following, Spencer will be seen in This Suggests that War with Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, and Chris Pine. The film follows 2 lifelong best friends as they wage an epic battle against each other after they each fall in love with the same woman. Additionally set for unleash in 201one for Spencer is The Haunting in Georgia opposite Chad Michael Murray and Katee Sackhoff, a thriller set in the agricultural South where a young family is terrorized by supernatural entities in their home. And in most recent news Abigail has just been added to the Disney movie OZ:The great and Powerful, the Sam Raimi-directed prequel to the Wizard of Oz starring James Franco, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, and Michelle Williams.

After changing into a regular on the daytime soap opera All My Children (Best Newcomer of the Year - Soap Awards) for 2 years, Spencer was forged because the lead in many pilots, most notably Grace, the Krista Vernoff/Carrie Ann Inaba "King Lear in the Dance World" show choreographed by the good Mia Michaels and Introducing Lennie Rose for ABC helmed by Ken Olin and Krista Vernoff (Brothers and Sisters/Grey's Anatomy), and Backyards and Bullets for NBC (Charles McDougall, Jamie Tarses, Ed Decter and John Strauss). She can be seen on How to Be a Gentleman/ CBS this season. She has conjointly appeared in tv shows such as How I Met Your Mother, Bones, My Boys, Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Gilmore Girls, Castle, and therefore the series Angela's Eyes as Angela, Spencer additionally starred in the 2-hour crossover event of Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice where she played Rachel, a young girl deep in the throes of postpartum depression.

Spencer spent many of her summers finding out song and dance below her mentor, Ann Reinking, at the Broadway Theatre Project, where she learned the art of storytelling. She was additionally later accepted into Carnegie Mellon University. Spencer is from Gulf Breeze, Florida, where she spent her youth surfing along with her professional surfing father, legend Yancy Spencer III, and brothers Sterling and Yancy and learning voice and music under her folk-singing mother Lydia.

Abigail has parlayed her storytelling to writing most recently selling a scripted drama pilot to ABC Family, and has 2 options she's currently writing, one in production and one in development.
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starring Abigail Spencer