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 Hamilton with her Peabody Award, 2005 | |
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60)[1][2] Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University New York University (BFA) Juilliard School (GrDip) |
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| Years active | 1985–present |
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| Website | www |
LisaGay Hamilton (born 1964)[1][2] 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 ABC 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 on the Hulu series The First (2018).
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.
- ^ a b Guthmann, Edward (February 25, 2004). "HBO shines light on Beah Richards, a mentor to many". San Francisco Chronicle.
When LisaGay Hamilton was making the film "Beloved" in 1997, she never dreamed she'd one day make a documentary about her co-star, actress Beah Richards. "Beah changed my life," said Hamilton, 39, at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland, where her film showed last weekend.
- ^ a b Schaefer, Stephen (November 18, 2013). "Role triggers fear". Boston Herald.
Playing Bernice, a Los Angeles parole officer in "Go for Sisters" was an eye opener for LisaGay Hamilton. "The first thing when I read this was, 'I need to talk to a parole officer,' and although I hate guns 'I need some training,' " said Hamilton, 49.
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