Michael Cudlitz

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.

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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)

Origin

Long Island, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / video game actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

High school

Lakewood High School

• Official sitehttps://www.michaelcudlitz.net
• Xhttps://x.com/Cudlitz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Cudlitz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q930937

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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