Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 25, 1964
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
71 titles
LisaGay Hamilton
Biography
LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964) is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is best known for her role as secretary/lawyer Rebecca Washington on the legal drama The Practice (1997–2003). She also portrayed Melissa Thoreau on the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011), Celia Jones on the Netflix series House of Cards (2016), Suzanne Simms on the Hulu series Chance (2016), and Kayla Price in The First (2018), also by Hulu. Hamilton's film credits include roles in 12 Monkeys (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Beloved (1998), True Crime (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Soloist (2009), Beastly (2011), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Vice (2018). Her theater credits include Measure for Measure (Isabella), Henry IV Parts I & II (Lady Hotspur), Athol Fugard's, Valley Song and The Ohio State Murders. Hamilton was also an original cast member in the Broadway productions of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. In 2005 she won a Peabody Award for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lisa Gay Hamilton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
By Any Means
Blue Eyed Girl
Catherine
The Boogeyman
Dr. Weller
Class of '09
Tayo's Mom
Accused
Lenore Skilling
Will Trent
Evelyn Mitchell
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mary Holder
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Christine Johnson
The Dropout
Judith Baker
The Gilded Age
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas
Deb
Ad Astra
Adjutant General Vogel
Vice
Condoleezza Rice
The Rookie
Henry's Doctor
Beautiful Boy
Rose
The First
Kayla Price
Genius
Alberta Williams King
Chance
Suzanne Simms
This Is Us
Aunt Mae
Indiscretion
Karen Wyatt
The Wilding
Emily Bergom
Go for Sisters
Bernice
Redemption Trail
Tess
The Blacklist
Dr. Calvert Gray
Lovelace
Marsha
Life of a King
Sheila King
House of Cards
Celia Jones
Elementary
Lt. Colonel Robin Deakins
Scandal
Ambassador
Take Shelter
Kendra
Beastly
Zola Davies
Men of a Certain Age
Melissa Thoreau
Mother and Child
Leticia
The Soloist
Jennifer Ayers
Deception
Detective Russo
Honeydripper
Delilah
Nine Lives
Holly
Grey's Anatomy
Connie Ryan
Numb3rs
Sari Kinshasa
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Self
The L Word
Art Show Attendee
The Truth About Charlie
Lola Jansco
Without a Trace
Sherise Gibbs
Ten Tiny Love Stories
The Sum of All Fears
Capt. Lorna Shiro
Hamlet
Ophelia
A House Divided
Julia
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Teresa Randall
Swing Vote
Virginia Mapes
True Crime
Bonnie Beechum