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Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American screen and stage actor. He is most known as Father Gabriel on AMC's post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead, first appearing in Season 5. He is also known for his HBO television roles, first as corrections officer-turned-prisoner Clayton Hughes on Oz, and later as Baltimore police detective promoted to Sergeant, Ellis Carver on The Wire. On both of these series, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D. Williams. Another of his major recurring roles was on the TV series Teen Wolf as Dr. Alan Deaton. He had a recurring role during the seventh season of The Cosby Show as Aaron Dexter (boyfriend of Erika Alexander's character Pam), Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and Law and Order: Trial by Jury. He's had a number of guest roles in other shows such as CSI: Miami, Nurse Jackie, Skins, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, and Bull. His feature film credits include his role as Sergeant Steven Altameyer in Courage Under Fire (1996) and Private Sugar Watkins in the action movie Starship Troopers (1997). His other films include Personal Velocity (2002), Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009), and Still Alice (2014).
A young Peter Quill sits alone at the hospital waiting area listening to music on his Walkman. His father enters the waiting area to take Peter to see his mother. Peter walks in to see his mother on her deathbed as she slowly passes away after being diagnosed with cancer. Not being able to take his mother’s death well, he runs out of the hospital and runs as far away as he can before his father or anyone is able to catch him. As he’s on his knees weeping for his mother, he is suddenly abducted from Earth a group of alien pirates known as ‘The Ravagers’ led by Yondu Udonta.
