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Seth Gilliam

Seth Gilliam

Birthday: 1968-11-05 | Place of Birth: New York - USA

Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is 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. His feature film credits include Private Sugar Watkins in the 1997 action movie Starship Troopers. Gilliam also had a recurring role during the seventh season of The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter–boyfriend of Erika Alexander's Pam–and appeared in the 18th episode of the seventh season of CSI: Miami ("Flight Risk"). He also portrayed Sergeant Steven Altameyer in 1996's Courage Under Fire (1996). He is currently playing the lead in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of Othello. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seth Gilliam, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Ride or Die

as    Creon

2024
The Lady of the Lake

as    Adam Schultz

2023
The Zombie Wedding

as    Reverend Harry Crump

2018
Police State

as    Officer Grady

2018
Change in the Air

as    Officer Payne

2014
Still Alice

as    Frederic Johnson

2012
The Skinny

as    Testing Van Doc

2010
The Walking Dead

as    Gabriel Stokes

2010
Betrayed

as    Roger Waite

2009
The People v. Leo Frank

as    Jim Conley

2008
Sympathetic Details

as    Raymond

2000
Punks

as    Marcus

1997
Starship Troopers

as    Private Sugar Watkins

1996
Courage Under Fire

as    Stephen Altameyer

1995
Jefferson in Paris

as    James Hemings

1993
Joey Breaker

as    Jeremy Brasher