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Seth Gilliam
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Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American screen and stage actor. He is most known as Father Gabriel on AMC's post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead, first appearing in Sea…
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Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American screen and stage actor. He is most known as Father Gabriel on AMC's post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead, first appearing in Season 5. He is also known for his HBO television roles, first as corrections officer-turned-prisoner Clayton Hughes on Oz, and later as Baltimore police detective promoted to Sergeant, Ellis Carver on The Wire. On both of these series, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D. Williams. Another of his major recurring roles was on the TV series Teen Wolf as Dr. Alan Deaton. He had a recurring role during the seventh season of The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter (boyfriend of Erika Alexander's character Pam), Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Law and Order: Trial by Jury. He's had a number of guest roles in other shows such as CSI: Miami, Nurse Jackie, Skins, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, and Bull. His feature film credits include his role as Sergeant Steven Altameyer in Courage Under Fire (1996) and Private Sugar Watkins in the action movie Starship Troopers (1997). His other films include Personal Velocity (2002), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), and Still Alice (2014).
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2025
Ride or Die
Movie Creon
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2025
Suits LA
TV show Dean Harris
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2024
The Lady of the Lake
Movie Adam Schultz
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2024
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
TV show Gabriel Stokes
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2023
The Zombie Wedding
Movie Reverend Harry Crump
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2023
Teen Wolf: The Movie
Movie Dr. Alan Deaton
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2019
City on a Hill
TV show Jasper Fields
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2018
Silver Lake
Movie Jeff
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2018
Change in the Air
Movie Officer Payne
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2018
Police State
Movie Officer Grady
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2016
Bull
TV show Dr. Poulson
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2014
Still Alice
Movie Frederic Johnson
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2013
The Blacklist
TV show Larry Whitaker
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2012
Elementary
TV show Dr. Ira Wallace
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2012
The Skinny
Movie Testing Van Doc
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2011
Homeland
TV show Chaplin
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2011
Person of Interest
TV show Des Franklin
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2011
Teen Wolf
TV show Alan Deaton
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2010
The Walking Dead
TV show Gabriel Stokes
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2010
Betrayed
Movie Roger Waite
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2009
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Movie U.S. Marshal Lasky
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Jacob Rickter
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2009
Nurse Jackie
TV show Dr. Lindsey
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2009
The People v. Leo Frank
Movie Jim Conley
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2008
Sympathetic Details
Movie Raymond
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2007
The Wire: The Last Word
Movie Self
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2007
The Wire Odyssey
Movie Self
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2007
Damages
TV show Mark Waters
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2007
Tapping the Wire
Movie Self
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2005
Criminal Minds
TV show Lyle Johnson
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2005
The Great New Wonderful
Movie Clayton
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2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV show Terence Wright
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2002
CSI: Miami
TV show Aaron Nolan
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2002
The Wire
TV show Ellis Carver
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2002
Personal Velocity
Movie Vincent
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2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV show Detective Daniels
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2000
Punks
Movie Marcus
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1997
Starship Troopers
Movie Private Sugar Watkins
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1997
Oz
TV show Clayton Hughes
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1996
Tar
Movie Tyrone
