‘The Lincoln Lawyer’: Where You’ve Seen Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and the Rest of the Cast
The Lincoln Lawyer is Netflix’s latest must-binge series. The legal drama from David E. Kelley brings Mickey Haller and other characters created by best-selling author Michael Connelly to life on screen. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Mickey. Neve Campbell, Becki Newton, and Christopher Gorham also star. Here’s where you’ve seen them and the rest of The Lincoln Lawyer cast before.
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays attorney Mickey Haller. The Lincoln Lawyer is his first leading role in an American TV series. Viewers may recognize him as the drug lord Gabriel Ortega from season 2 of Prime Video’s Goliath. He’s also appeared in movies such as Widows, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and Murder on the Orient Express.
Becki Newton
Becki Newton plays Lorna, Mickey’s ex-wife and current legal secretary. Viewers will remember her as Ugly Betty’s Amanda Tanen. After that show ended in 2010, she went on to appear in How I Met Your Mother, Love Bites, and the HBO series Divorce.
Neve Campbell
Neve Campbell plays Mickey’s other ex-wife Maggie. She’s been acting since the early 1990s with starring roles in movies such as The Craft, Scream (and its many sequels), and Wild Things as well as the TV show Party of Five. More recently, she played political consultant LeAnn Harvey in seasons 4 and 5 of Netflix’s House of Cards.
Angus Sampson
Angus Sampson plays Mickey’s investigator Cisco. He’s an Australian actor who has also played the Organic Mechanic in Mad Max: Fury Road, Tucker in the Insidious film series, and Bear Gerhardt in Fargo Season 2.
Jazz Raycole
After Mickey gets her off on a theft charge, he hires Izzy to work as his driver. The character is played by Jazz Raycole. Raycole got her start as a child actor, and one of her first big roles was as Claire on the sitcom My Wife and Kids. But she only played the part for one season before the role was recast. Since then, she’s had roles on Jericho, The Soul Man, Vanity, The Quad, and other shows.
Christopher Gorham
The Lincoln Lawyer cast member Christopher Gorham plays tech mogul and accused murderer Trevor Elliott. Like Newton, he’s also an Ugly Betty alum. He played Betty’s love interest Henry Grubstick. He also starred in Ryan Murphy’s first TV show, Popular, the action-drama Covert Affairs, and Netflix’s Insatiable.
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine plays Detective Raymond Griggs in The Lincoln Lawyer. Previously, he played Ronnie Davis on Showtime’s The Chi. He’s also been seen in The Riches, Heroes, and Treme. He also had a small role as a character named Craig in Prime Video’s Bosch, which is also based on a book series by Michael Connelly.
Where you’ve seen other ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ cast members
Jamie McShane plays the crooked Detective Lankford in The Lincoln Lawyer. He’s a familiar face on TV, with roles on dozens of shows including Psych, Breaking Bad, Criminal Minds, and The West Wing. He also played Eric O’Bannon on Netflix’s Bloodline, Cameron on Sons of Anarchy, and Detective Francis Sheehan on Bosch.
LisaGay Hamilton plays Judge Holder. Most recently, she’s appeared in Hulu’s The Dropout as Judith Baker and HBO’s Winning Time as Magic Johnson’s mother Christine. She also played Rebecca Washington on The Practice for seven seasons.
Newcomer Krista Warner plays Mickey and Maggie’s daughter Hayley. The Lincoln Lawyer is her first major TV role.
The Lincoln Lawyer is streaming on Netflix.
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