Seth Gilliam
Born: 1968-11-05 in 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).
Filmography
2025
- Suits LA as Dean Harris
- Ride or Die as Creon
2024
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live as Gabriel Stokes
- The Lady of the Lake as Adam Schultz
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
- Police State as Officer Grady
- Silver Lake as Jeff
- Change in the Air as Officer Payne
2016
- Bull as Dr. Poulson
2014
- Still Alice as Frederic Johnson
2013
- The Blacklist as Larry Whitaker
2012
- Elementary as Dr. Ira Wallace
- The Skinny as Testing Van Doc
2011
- Homeland as Chaplin
- Teen Wolf as Alan Deaton
- Person of Interest as Des Franklin
2010
- The Walking Dead as Gabriel Stokes
- Betrayed as Roger Waite
2009
- The Good Wife as Jacob Rickter
- Did You Hear About the Morgans? as U.S. Marshal Lasky
- The People v. Leo Frank as Jim Conley
2008
- Sympathetic Details as Raymond
2007
- Damages as Mark Waters
- The Wire Odyssey as Self
- The Wire: The Last Word as Self
- Tapping the Wire as Self
2005
- Criminal Minds as Lyle Johnson
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Terence Wright
- The Great New Wonderful as Clayton
2002
- CSI: Miami as Aaron Nolan
- The Wire as Ellis Carver
- Personal Velocity as Vincent
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Daniels
2000
- Punks as Marcus
1997
- Oz as Clayton Hughes
- Starship Troopers as Private Sugar Watkins
1996
- Courage Under Fire as Stephen Altameyer
- Tar as Tyrone
1995
- Heading Home as Willie
- Jefferson in Paris as James Hemings
1994
- Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker as Cadet Johnson C. Whittaker
1993
- Joey Breaker as Jeremy Brasher
- Mr. Wonderful as Emergency Room Doctor (unconfirmed)
1990
- Law & Order as Michael´s Attorney
1984
- The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter