J.D. Cullum (born 1 March 1966; age 58) is the actor who played Toral in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth and fifth season episodes "Redemption" and "Redemption II". He filmed his scenes for "Redemption" on Monday 15 April 1991 and on Thursday 18 April 1991 on Paramount Stage 16. For "Redemption II", Cullum filmed his scenes on Monday 15 July 1991 and Tuesday 16 July 1991 on Paramount Stage 16.
Since his appearance on The Next Generation, Cullum has gone on to guest star on such popular series as Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (with John Fleck and series regular Teri Hatcher), Married... with Children, Sliders, NYPD Blue (with Gordon Clapp), Frasier (starring Kelsey Grammer), and 24 (with Penny Johnson). He also had a recurring role on Judging Amy and was one of the many Star Trek performers to appear in 61*. This movie also featured Seymour Cassel, Robert Costanzo, Charles Esten, Bob Gunton, Robert Joy, Christopher McDonald, Bruce McGill, Michael Nouri, Dell Yount, and Star Trek: Enterprise star Connor Trinneer.
At the time he appeared on The Next Generation, Cullum had already appeared in several feature films, beginning with The Manhattan Project alongside Dan Butler, Timothy Carhart, Stephen Markle and Robert Schenkkan in 1986. That same year, he co-starred with Star Trek: Voyager guest actor John Glover in Willy/Milly. 1987 saw Cullum in Morgan Stewart's Coming Home with Jude Ciccolella. In 1989, he had a supporting role in Glory, which also featured Cliff DeYoung, Bob Gunton, Mark Margolis, Richard Riehle, and Voyager's Ethan Phillips. He then went on to appear in the films Reversal of Fortune with Jad Mager and Tom Wright (1990), Ambition (1991, with Clancy Brown and Celeste Yarnall), Roadside Prophets (1992, with Lee Arenberg, Bill Cobbs, Aaron Lustig, and Biff Yeager), and Forever Young written by J.J. Abrams (1992, with Eric Pierpoint and Nicolas Surovy).
The majority of his recent credits have been TV appearances and voiceover roles on video games, like Kuja from Dissidia Final Fantasy. [1] However, he does make an occasional appearance in films, such as Good Night, and Good Luck (2005, with Robert Knepper, Frank Langella, Glenn Morshower and Ray Wise). In 2017, Cullum appeared in a guest role on The Orville (with Penny Johnson, Scott Grimes, and Seth MacFarlane, in an episode with Ron Canada).