1. LisaGay Hamilton was born on 1964 and is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage.
10 Facts About LisaGay Hamilton
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LisaGay Hamilton portrayed Melissa Thoreau on the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age, Celia Jones on the Netflix series House of Cards, Suzanne Simms on the Hulu series Chance, and Kayla Price in The First, by Hulu.
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LisaGay Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California but spent most of her childhood in Stony Brook, New York on the north shore of Long Island.
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LisaGay Hamilton fell in love with theater at an early age.
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LisaGay Hamilton enrolled in Carnegie Mellon University to study theater, but after a year was accepted into New York University's Tisch Drama School where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater in 1985.
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LisaGay Hamilton appeared in over two dozen films, including The Truth About Charlie and Beloved for director Jonathan Demme, Clint Eastwood's True Crime, the independent films; Palookaville, Drunks, Showtime's A House Divided, and as Ophelia in director Campbell Scott's film version of Hamlet.
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LisaGay Hamilton has worked on several projects with director Rodrigo Garcia, notably his films Ten Tiny Love Stories, Nine Lives, and Mother and Child.
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LisaGay Hamilton won a Peabody Award in 2005 for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks.
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LisaGay Hamilton's film explored Richards' political activism as well as her poetry.
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LisaGay Hamilton played the role of Melissa in Men of a Certain Age, an hour-long comedy-drama television series starring Ray Romano, Andre Braugher, and Scott Bakula that ran from 2009 to 2011.