Seth Gilliam
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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- 2024 · The Lady of the Lake as Adam Schultz
- 2024 · The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Gabriel Stokes
- 2023 · The Zombie Wedding as Reverend Harry Crump
- 2023 · Teen Wolf: The Movie as Dr. Alan Deaton
- 2019 · City on a Hill as Jasper Fields
- 2018 · Silver Lake as Jeff
- 2018 · Change in the Air as Officer Payne
- 2018 · Police State as Officer Grady
- 2016 · Bull as Dr. Poulson
- 2014 · Still Alice as Frederic Johnson
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Larry Whitaker
- 2012 · Elementary as Dr. Ira Wallace
- 2012 · The Skinny as Testing Van Doc
- 2011 · Person of Interest as Detective Des Franklin
- 2011 · Teen Wolf as Alan Deaton
- 2010 · The Walking Dead as Gabriel Stokes
- 2010 · Betrayed as Roger Waite
- 2009 · Did You Hear About the Morgans? as U.S. Marshal Lasky
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Jacob Rickter
- 2009 · The People v. Leo Frank as Jim Conley
- 2008 · Sympathetic Details as Raymond
- 2007 · The Wire: The Last Word as Self
- 2007 · The Wire Odyssey as Self
- 2007 · Tapping the Wire as Self
- 2005 · Criminal Minds as Lyle Johnson
- 2005 · The Great New Wonderful as Clayton
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Terence Wright
- 2002 · CSI: Miami as
- 2002 · The Wire as Ellis Carver
- 2002 · The Wire as Detective Ellis Carver
- 2002 · The Wire as Sergeant Ellis Carver
- 2002 · Personal Velocity as Vincent
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Daniels
- 2000 · Punks as Marcus
- 1997 · Starship Troopers as Private Sugar Watkins
- 1997 · Oz as Clayton Hughes
- 1996 · Tar as Tyrone
- 1996 · Courage Under Fire as Stephen Altameyer
- 1995 · Heading Home as Willie
- 1995 · Jefferson in Paris as James Hemings
- 1994 · Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Cadet Johnson C. Whittaker
- 1993 · Mr. Wonderful as Emergency Room Doctor (unconfirmed)
- 1993 · Joey Breaker as Jeremy Brasher
- 1992 · In the Eyes of a Stranger as
- 1990 · Law & Order as Michael´s Attorney
- 1990 · Law & Order as Babatunde Amoda
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter
- Future · Ride or Die as Creon