Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins
Goggins at the Television Academy presents An Evening with “Justified” in Hollywood on March 19, 2014
Born	(1971-11-10) November 10, 1971 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actor, filmmaker
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Leanne Goggins (2001–2004) Nadia Conners (2011 - present)

Walton Sanders Goggins, Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his roles as Shane Vendrell on The Shield and Boyd Crowder on Justified. He has appeared in films such as Django Unchained, Machete Kills, Lincoln, The Apostle, Chrystal, That Evening Sun, Miracle at St. Anna and Predators. He also co-produced and starred in the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Early life

Goggins was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia. He has lived in Los Angeles, California since he was 19 years old.

Career

Goggins is well known for his portrayal of Detective Shane Vendrell in the FX series The Shield, a role he played from 2002 to 2008.

Goggins is also an award-winning filmmaker. He owns a production company called Ginny Mule Pictures with actor Ray McKinnon. They have made four films: The Accountant (a short film which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001), Chrystal (Sundance Dramatic Competition), Randy and the Mob, and That Evening Sun (which won the South by Southwest Special Jury Prize 2009). He also worked with McKinnon on the television show Rectify. Goggins was set to play the lead and AMC had bought the pilot script, written by McKinnon.

In May 2010, Goggins' character Boyd Crowder was promoted to the main cast for the second season of the FX series Justified. In July, he had a major supporting role as a deadly death row inmate being hunted by the titular antagonists in the film Predators. In May 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. He portrayed Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 film Django Unchained.

In 2012 and later in 2013, Goggins was invited to appear in a guest role as transgender prostitute Venus Van Dam in the FX series Sons of Anarchy. He had previously worked with the show's creator, Kurt Sutter, when the latter was a writer and executive producer on The Shield from 2002 until 2008. The name "Venus Van Damme" is a play on the undercover name "Cletus Van Damme" used by Goggins' character on The Shield.

Professional recognition

Googins 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, and the same trio were awarded the Spirit of Slamdance Award again in 2007 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 that same year, McKinnon, Goggins, Hal Holbrook, and the rest of the principle cast of That Evening Sun won the Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at the South by Southwest Film Festival competition.

In 2012, the principle cast of Quentin Tarentino's Django Unchained, including Goggins, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Bruce Dern, and others, were nominated for the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for Best Ensemble Performance.

Goggins' portrayal of the character Boyd Crowder in Justified garnered nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, for Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2011, for the TV Guide Award for Favorite Villain in 2013, for 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, and 2014.

Goggins role as Venus Van Dam in the Sons of Anarchy 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.

Personal life

Goggins was married to dog-walking business owner Leanne Goggins from 2001 until her death by suicide in 2004. He married filmmaker Nadia Conners in August 2011, and they have a son, Augustus, born in February 2011. Goggins is an avid photographer, and showcases some of his work on a blog that he created when he took time off work and traveled across India. He is an avid traveler, spending much of his free time in Cambodia, Central America, Morocco, Thailand, and Vietnam.

He is active in various non-profit organizations that range from environmental to humanitarian work. He regularly attends Global Green USA events. He connected to environmental issues through his wife, who directed the documentary The 11th Hour, about the environmental crisis.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Murder in Mississippi	Lyle	Television film
1992	Stay the Night	Wayne Seagrove	Television film
1992	Forever Young	Gate MP
1992	Mr. Saturday Night	Shaky Kid	Uncredited
1993	For Love and Glory	Buck	Television film
1994	The Next Karate Kid	Charlie
1996	Humanoids from the Deep	Rod	Television film
1996	The Cherokee Kid	Jim Bob	Television film
1997	The Apostle	Sam
1997	Painted Hero	Roddy
1997	Switchback	Bud
1998	Major League: Back to the Minors	Billy "Downtown" Anderson
1999	Wayward Son
2000	The Crow: Salvation	Detective Stan Roberts
2000	Red Dirt	Lee Todd
2000	Shanghai Noon	Wallace
2000	Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Almanzo Wilder
2001	Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man	Billy Weber	Television film
2001	Joy Ride	Police officer	Uncredited
2001	Daddy and Them	Tommy Christian
2001	The Accountant	Tommy O'Dell
2002	The Bourne Identity	Research Tech
2002	Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Almanzo Wilder
2003	4 Selections from Plimpton County's Tuff Truck Jamboree	Narl
2003	House of 1000 Corpses	Deputy Steve Nash
2003	Apple Jack	Moe Danyou
2004	Chrystal	Larry
2005	The World's Fastest Indian	Marty Dickerson
2006	Randy and The Mob	Tino Armani
2006	The Architect	Joe
2008	Winged Creatures	Zack
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Nokes
2009	Damage	Reno
2009	That Evening Sun	Paul Meecham
2010	Predators	Stans
2011	Cowboys & Aliens	Hunt
2011	Straw Dogs	Daniel
2012	Lincoln	Wells A. Hutchins
2012	Django Unchained	Billy Crash
2013	Officer Down	Detective Logue
2013	G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Warden Nigel James
2013	Machete Kills	El Cameleón
2014	Mojave		Post-production
2015	American Ultra	Laugher	Post-Production
2015	The Hateful Eight	Chris Mannix	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	In the Heat of the Night	Darrell	Episode: "Crackdown"
1991	In the Heat of the Night	Robbie Jeffries	Episode: "Shine on Sparta Moon"
1992	Beverly Hills, 90210	Mike Muchin	Episode: "The Pit and the Pendulum"
1992	In the Heat of the Night	Garth Watkins	Episode: "A Frenzied Affair"
1995	JAG	Officer	Episode: "Desert Son"
1996	Pacific Blue	Harv	2 episodes
1998	NYPD Blue	Terry	Episode: "Honeymoon at Viagra Falls"
2002–2008	The Shield	Detective Shane Vendrell	88 episodes Nominated – Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2009)
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Marlon Frost	Episode: "Empty Eyes"
2009	Criminal Minds	John Cooley	Episode: "Demonology"
2009	CSI: Miami	Sean Echols	Episode: "Dissolved"
2010–present	Justified	Boyd Crowder	62 episodes Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2011, 2013-14) Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2011) Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2011)
2012–2014	Sons of Anarchy	Venus Van Dam	5 episodes Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series (2014)
2013	To Appomattox	Richard Ewell	5 episodes
2014	Community	Mr. Stone	Episode: "Cooperative Polygraphy"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom	Border World Pilot	Voice

External links

• Walton Goggins at IMDb
• Audio Interview w/ The Rafferty/Mills Connection Podcast (2009)
• myFanbase Interview with Walton Goggins on "Justified" and "The Shield", December 2011
• Walton Goggins Fan