Walton Goggins

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Walton Goggins
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Goggins at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Walton Sanders Goggins Jr.

(1971-11-10) November 10, 1971 (age 49)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1989–present
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Spouse(s)
Leanne Kaun
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​
(m. 2001; d. 2004)​
Nadia Conners
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(m. 2011)​
Children1

Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born November 10, 1971)[1] is an American actor. He has starred in supporting roles in television series, including Sons of Anarchy,The Shield, Justified, Vice Principals, The Righteous Gemstones and Invincible. He also starred in films, including Lincoln, Predators, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Tomb Raider, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.

He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Justified. He also produced and starred in the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.[2]

Early life[]

Goggins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Janet Long and Walton Sanders Goggins, Sr.[1] He was raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia, attended Lithia Springs High School, and, for one year, Georgia Southern University.[2]

Career[]

Goggins moved to Los Angeles and worked on a valet car parking service for various restaurants.[citation needed] After working in a few acting roles in Georgia, Goggins met Ray McKinnon while filming Murder in Mississippi.

Goggins played Shane Vendrell in the FX series The Shield. Goggins and McKinnon formed their production company Ginny Mule Pictures, which produced four films: The Accountant (a short film which won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film), Chrystal (Sundance Dramatic Competition), Randy and the Mob, and That Evening Sun (which won the South by Southwest Special Jury Prize). They later created the series Rectify.[3] Goggins was set to play the lead and AMC had bought the pilot script, written by McKinnon, a role which went to Aden Young, when the series later went to SundanceTV.[4]

Goggins played Boyd Crowder in the pilot episode for the FX series Justified, while filming a major supporting role as a deadly death row inmate being hunted by the titular antagonists in the film Predators. Boyd was intended to die in the pilot episode, but Justified producer Yost kept the character when test audiences selected Goggins for the role. Goggins joined the main cast from the second season in May 2010.[5]

In 2011, he appeared in "Code of the West", a commercial for Ram Truck's "Guts & Glory" campaign. He appeared in Cowboys & Aliens as Hunt, a bandit formerly in the employ of the protagonist. In July 2011, Goggins was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on Justified.[6] He portrayed Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 film Django Unchained.[7]

From 2012 to 2013, Goggins guest-starred as transgender prostitute Venus Van Dam in the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He previously worked with the show's creator, Kurt Sutter, when the latter was a writer and executive producer on The Shield. The name "Venus Van Dam" is a play on the undercover name "Cletus Van Damme" used by Shane Vendrell, the character Goggins portrayed on The Shield.[8] He played Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight and Lee Russell in the HBO series Vice Principals.[2][9] The New York Times critic Mike Hale wrote, "Walton Goggins makes a habit of being the best thing about the television shows he’s in."[10]

In 2018, Goggins starred as Lawrence in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Mathias Vogel in Tomb Raider, and Sonny Burch in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Goggins played the lead character in the CBS sitcom, The Unicorn. He starred in the comedy series The Righteous Gemstones.

In 2020, Goggins voiced part of the real crime podcast Deep Cover: The Drug Wars.[11]

Honors, awards, distinctions[]

Goggins at the Television Academy presents An Evening with Justified in Hollywood, on March 19, 2014

Goggins has received a steady stream of recognition for his professional work. With Ray McKinnon, Lisa Blount and Ginny Mule Pictures, he was recognized by the Spirit of Slamdance Award at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2001 for The Accountant, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2002. Their film Chrystal appeared in the 2004 U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival,[12] and the same trio were awarded the Spirit of Slamdance Award again for Randy and the Mob.

Goggins was nominated for a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama in 2009 for his role as Detective Shane Vendrell in The Shield. In the same year, McKinnon, Goggins, Hal Holbrook and the rest of the principal cast of That Evening Sun, won the Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the South by Southwest Film Festival competition.

In 2013, Goggins was nominated for the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble in Quentin Tarantino's western film Django Unchained.

Goggins received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[13] in 2011, the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2011, the TV Guide Award for Favorite Villain in 2013, the Online Film & Television Association's Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2014, and for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

For Sons of Anarchy, Goggins received nominations for the Online Film & Television Association's Television Award for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014, and for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2014 and 2015.

Personal life[]

Goggins married Canadian resident Leanne Kaun, who owned a Laurel Canyon, California, dog-walking business and died by suicide on November 12, 2004.[14] Goggins married filmmaker Nadia Conners in August 2011. They have a son, Augustus (born February 2011).[15]

Goggins showcases some of his photography on a blog[16] that he created when he took a sabbatical and traveled across India.[16] He is active in various nonprofit organizations that range from environmental to humanitarian work. He attended the Global Green USA events.[citation needed] He is a partner in a spirits company, Mulholland Distilling.[17]

Filmography[]

Film[]

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Mr. Saturday Night Shaky Kid DVD cut only[18]
Forever Young[19] Gate MP
1994 The Next Karate Kid Charlie Credited as "Walt Goggins"
1997 The Apostle Sam
Switchback Bud
1998 Major League: Back to the Minors Billy "Downtown" Anderson
2000 The Crow: Salvation Detective Stan Roberts
Red Dirt Lee Todd
Shanghai Noon Wallace
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Almanzo Wilder
2001 Daddy and Them Tommy Christian
Joy Ride Cop Uncredited
The Accountant Tommy O'Dell Short film
Also co-producer
2002 The Bourne Identity Research Tech #1
Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Almanzo Wilder
2003 House of 1000 Corpses Deputy Steve Nash
Apple Jack Moe Danyou Short film
2004 Chrystal Larry Also producer
2005 The World's Fastest Indian Marty Dickerson
2006 The Architect Joe
2007 Randy and The Mob Tino Armani Also producer
2008 Winged Creatures Zack
Miracle at St. Anna Nokes
2009 That Evening Sun Paul Meecham Also producer
Damage Reno
2010 Predators Stans
2011 Cowboys & Aliens Hunt
Straw Dogs Daniel
2012 Lincoln Clay Hawkins
Django Unchained Billy Crash
2013 Officer Down Angel / Detective Logue
G.I. Joe: Retaliation Warden Nigel James
Machete Kills El Cameleón
2015 Mojave Jim
American Ultra Laugher
Diablo Ezra
The Hateful Eight Chris Mannix
2017 Three Christs Leon
2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Lawrence
Tomb Raider Mathias Vogel
Ant-Man and the Wasp Sonny Burch
2019 Them That Follow Lemuel Childs
2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood voice of Old Chattanooga Beer Extended cut
2020 Words on Bathroom Walls Paul
Fatman Skinny Man
2021 Spirit Untamed[20] Hendricks (voice)

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes
1989 In the Heat of the Night Darrell / Robbie Jeffries / Garth Watkins 4 episodes
1990 Murder in Mississippi Lyle Television film
1992 Beverly Hills, 90210 Mike Muchin Episode: "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Stay the Night Wayne Seagrove Television film
1993 Queen Young Man #1
1993 Renegade Lance Episode: "Wheel Man"
1995 JAG Marine 2nd Lieutenant Episode: "Desert Son"
1996 Humanoids from the Deep Rod Television film
The Cherokee Kid Jim Bob
Pacific Blue Harv 2 episodes
The Sentinel Mick Episode: "True Crime"
1998 NYPD Blue Terry Episode: "Honeymoon at Viagra Falls"
2001 Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man Billy Weber Television film
2002–2008 The Shield Shane Vendrell 88 episodes
2004 Hawaii Agent Davis Episode: "Lost and Found"
2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Marlon Frost Episode: "Empty Eyes"
2009 Criminal Minds John Cooley Episode: "Demonology"
CSI: Miami Sean Echols Episode: "Dissolved"
2010–2015 Justified Boyd Crowder 74 episodes
2012 Unsupervised Bruce Lindsay (voice) Episode: "The Magic of Science"
2012–2014 Sons of Anarchy Venus Van Dam 6 episodes
2014 Community Mr. Stone Episode: "Cooperative Polygraphy"
2016–2017 Vice Principals Lee Russell 18 episodes
2017–2018 Six Richard "Rip" Taggart 18 episodes
2017 American Dad! Enoch (voice) Episode: "A Nice Night for a Drive"
2018 The Big Bang Theory Oliver Episode: "The Separation Triangulation"
L.A. Confidential Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes Pilot
2019 Deep State Nathan Miller 8 episodes; also executive producer
2019–present The Righteous Gemstones Baby Billy Freeman 7 episodes
2019–2021 The Unicorn Wade 31 episodes
2021–present Invincible Cecil Stedman (voice) 7 episodes
TBA The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Dr. Rubin Upcoming miniseries

Video games[]

Year Title Voice role
1995 Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom Border World Pilot
2007 The Shield Detective Shane Vendrell
2017 Prey Aaron Ingram

Awards and nominations[]

Year Award Nominated for Result
2001 Slamdance Film Festival Spirit of Slamdance Award for Best Supporting Actor (shared with Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount)[citation needed] The Accountant Won
Randy and the Mob Won
2009 South By Southwest Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast[21] That Evening Sun Nominated
Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama[22] The Shield Nominated
2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[23] Justified Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[citation needed] Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film[citation needed] Nominated
2012 San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble[citation needed] Django Unchained Nominated
2013 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[24] Justified Nominated
2014 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series[25] Sons of Anarchy Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[25] Justified Nominated
2015 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[26] Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series[26] Sons of Anarchy Nominated
2016 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor The Hateful Eight Nominated
2018 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Vice Principals Won
2020 Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film The Righteous Gemstones Nominated

References[]

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