Michael Cudlitz
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 (2014–2018). == Early life == Cudlitz was born on (1964-12-29)December 29, 1964 on Long Island, New York, and raised in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.