My Take
Michael Cudlitz is one of those actors who absolutely commands the screen without ever demanding your attention — he just earns it. His turn as Officer John Cooper in Southland was genuinely riveting, a performance so grounded and complicated (addiction, identity, loyalty) that it felt less like acting and more like documentary. He won the Critics' Choice Television Award for it in 2013, and honestly, that still feels slightly underrecognized given how good that show was. Before all that, he was quietly memorable as Sergeant Randleman in Band of Brothers, and then he went full throttle as Abraham Ford in The Walking Dead — blunt, funny, heartbreaking right up to the end. Long Island kid who trained seriously and built a career on craft over hype: that's Michael Cudlitz in a sentence.
Overview
Michael Cudlitz (born December 29, 1964) is an American actor and director known for portraying John Cooper in the NBC/TNT drama series Southland (2009–2013) for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013, Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), and Sergeant Abraham Ford in the AMC horror series The Walking Dead (2014–2…
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michael Cudlitz
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・カドリッツ
- Reading
- まいける・かどりっつ
- Born
- December 29, 1964 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dragon
- Origin
- Long Island, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / video game actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Lakewood High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.