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A gifted actress creating a reputation for herself with every new project on each the big and tiny screen, Abigail Spencer is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s most in demand actors.

Abigail Spencer starred opposite Jon Hamm on Season three 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 in an exceedingly blazingly original way. Following, Spencer can be seen in This Means that War with Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, and Chris Pine. The film follows two lifelong best friends as they wage an epic battle against one another when they each fall in love with the identical lady. Conjointly set for release in 2011 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 simply been added to the Disney movie OZ:The good and Powerful, the Sam Raimi-directed prequel to the Wizard of Oz starring James Franco, Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis, and Michelle Williams.

When becoming a daily on the daytime soap opera All My Children (Best Newcomer of the Year - Soap Awards) for 2 years, Spencer was solid as the lead in several pilots, most notably Grace, the Krista Vernoff/Carrie Ann Inaba "King Lear in the Dance World" show choreographed by the nice 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 also appeared in television shows like How I Met Your Mother, Bones, My Boys, Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Gilmore Girls, Castle, and also the series Angela's Eyes as Angela, Spencer conjointly starred in the two-hour crossover event of Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice where she played Rachel, a young woman deep within the throes of postpartum depression.

Spencer spent several of her summers studying song and dance beneath her mentor, Ann Reinking, at the Broadway Theatre Project, where she learned the art of storytelling. She was conjointly later accepted into Carnegie Mellon University. Spencer is from Gulf Breeze, Florida, where she spent her youth surfing with her professional surfing father, legend Yancy Spencer III, and brothers Sterling and Yancy and learning voice and music underneath her people-singing mother Lydia.

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