Seth Gilliam

Seth Gilliam

Birthdate
November 5, 1968 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington Heights, New York, USA
Known For
Acting

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Birthdate
November 5, 1968 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington Heights, New York, USA
Known For
Acting

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).

Seth Gilliam's LGBTQ+ Titles

The Skinny
The Skinny
Testing Van Doc

Acting (48)

Ride or Die as Creon
2024
The Lady of the Lake as Adam Schultz
2024
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Gabriel Stokes (1 episode)
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 (1 episode)
2018
Silver Lake as Jeff
2018
Change in the Air as Officer Payne
2018
Police State as Officer Grady
2016
Bull as Dr. Poulson (1 episode)
2014
Still Alice as Frederic Johnson
2013
The Blacklist as Larry Whitaker (1 episode)
2012
Elementary as Dr. Ira Wallace (1 episode)
2012
The Skinny as Testing Van Doc
2011
Person of Interest as Detective Des Franklin (1 episode)
2011
Teen Wolf as Alan Deaton (44 episodes)
2010
The Walking Dead as Gabriel Stokes (106 episodes)
2010
Betrayed as Roger Waite
2009
Did You Hear About the Morgans? as U.S. Marshal Lasky
2009
The Good Wife as Jacob Rickter (2 episodes)
2009
The People v. Leo Frank as Jim Conley
2008
Sympathetic Details as Raymond
2007
The Wire: The Last Word
2007
The Wire Odyssey as Self
2007
Tapping the Wire as Self
2005
Criminal Minds as Lyle Johnson (1 episode)
2005
The Great New Wonderful as Clayton
2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Terence Wright (4 episodes)
2002
CSI: Miami (1 episode)
2002
The Wire as Detective Ellis Carver (12 episodes)
2002
The Wire as Ellis Carver (35 episodes)
2002
The Wire as Sergeant Ellis Carver (9 episodes)
2002
Personal Velocity as Vincent
2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Daniels (4 episodes)
2000
Punks as Marcus
1997
Starship Troopers as Private Sugar Watkins
1997
Oz as Clayton Hughes (2 episodes)
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
1990
Law & Order as Babatunde Amoda (1 episode)
1990
Law & Order as Michael´s Attorney (1 episode)
1984
The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter (3 episodes)