Seth Gilliam

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1968-11-05

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).

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Acting History

2025
Ride or Die as Creon
2025
Suits LA as Dean Harris
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
Homeland as Chaplin
2011
Person of Interest as 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
Damages as Mark Waters
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 Aaron Nolan
2002
The Wire as 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
1990
Law & Order as Michael´s Attorney
1990
Law & Order as Babatunde Amoda
1984
The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter
Stakeout