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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1968-11-05 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Washington Heights, New York, USA

Seth Gilliam

Biography:

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).

Known For

Acting

2025

Ride or Die as Creon

2024

2023

Teen Wolf: The Movie as Dr. Alan Deaton
The Zombie Wedding as Reverend Harry Crump

2019

City on a Hill as Jasper Fields

2018

Change in the Air as Officer Payne
Silver Lake as Jeff
Police State as Officer Grady

2016

Bull as Dr. Poulson

2014

Still Alice as Frederic Johnson

2013

The Blacklist as Larry Whitaker

2012

The Skinny as Testing Van Doc
Elementary as Dr. Ira Wallace

2011

Teen Wolf as Alan Deaton
Person of Interest as Des Franklin

2010

Betrayed as Roger Waite
The Walking Dead as Gabriel Stokes

2009

Did You Hear About the Morgans? as U.S. Marshal Lasky
The Good Wife as Jacob Rickter

2008

2007

2005

Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Terence Wright
Criminal Minds as Lyle Johnson

2002

The Wire as Ellis Carver
The Wire as Detective Ellis Carver
The Wire as Sergeant Ellis Carver

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Daniels

2000

Punks as Marcus

1997

Starship Troopers as Private Sugar Watkins
Oz as Clayton Hughes

1996

Tar as Tyrone
Courage Under Fire as Stephen Altameyer

1995

Jefferson in Paris as James Hemings
Heading Home as Willie

1994

1993

Joey Breaker as Jeremy Brasher
Mr. Wonderful as Emergency Room Doctor (unconfirmed)

1992

1990

Law & Order as Michael´s Attorney
Law & Order as Babatunde Amoda

1984

The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter

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