ABIGAIL SPENCER

OCTOBER

All Is VANITIES ... Nothing Is Fair

2012

HIGHBROW GOES MIDDLEBROW PAGE 208

As upscale restaurants push items like essential oils on their customers, HENRY ALFORD look at how fats-food chains might follow suit. Chipotlaroma or Pennyroyal Funyun, anyone?

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GOT MILF?

George Wayne flirts with actress Jennifer Coolidge and discovers that she still enjoys the younger flesh.

PROVENANCE: Gulf Breeze, Florida, AGE: 31. BY THE SEA: Spencer's father, surfing champion Yancy Spencer, served as a source of inspiration for her from an early age: "I think my father, even though he was a surfer, is actually the reason that I'm an actor, because he loved the arts so much. And my mom really didn't want me to get skin cancer, and she was like, 'Is there anything else she can do?"' SOAP STARLET: After a surprise appearance on family friend Kathie Lee Gifford's show, Spencer landed a role as Rebecca Tyree on All My Children. "I was 17 and on my way to Carnegie Mellon, with a full scholarship to the theater program—and along came this opportunity to be on this soap opera." LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER: plays Gerard Butler's wife in the upcoming surfer film Chasing Mavericks. "I look at acting as a sport, you know? You're in training; you're ready; you're an athlete." HOME HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: found a natural affinity with her character in the series Rectify, a southern drama debuting on the Sundance Channel early next year. "Amantha is the closest character I've ever played to myself. When I read it, I was just like, / have to do this! Who wrote this, and why were we separated at birth?"

KRISTA SMITH