Walton Goggins is famous for his characters as Shane Vendrell on “The Shield” and Boyd Crowder on “Justified”. He’s appeared in movies like “Django Unchained”, “Machete Kills”, “Lincoln”, “The Apostle”, “Chrystal”, “That Evening Sun”, “Miracle at St. Anna” and “Predators”.
In May 2010, Goggins’ character Boyd Crowder was promoted to the principal cast for the next season of the FX show Justified. In July, he had a major supporting character as a mortal death row prisoner being hunted by the titular antagonists in the movie Predators. In May 2011, he appeared in Code of the West, a advertisement for Ram Truck’s “Guts & Glory” effort. He appeared in Cowboys & Aliens as Hunt, a bandit once in the employment of the protagonist. In July 2011, Goggins was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series because of his character on Justified. He impersonated Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 movie Django Unchained. In 2012 and after back in 2013, Goggins was encouraged to appear in a guest role as transgender hooker Venus Van Dam in the FX show Sons of Anarchy. Walton Goggins had formerly worked together with the show’s originator, Kurt Sutter, when the latter was a writer and executive producer on The Shield from 2002 until 2008.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, more
Movies
The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, American Ultra, Predators, That Evening Sun, Cowboys & Aliens, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The Bourne Identity, Machete Kills, Straw Dogs, Shanghai Noon, Randy and the Mob, Mojave, The Apostle, Diablo, The Accountant, House of 1000 Corpses, Chrystal, Officer Down, The...
TV Shows
Justified, Sons of Anarchy, The Shield, Vice Principals
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Often plays Police officers
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[on his roles] I've always been invited through the back door. It hasn't been easy for me. I would never have gotten the jobs I did without the advent of cable television, which brought back the kinds of raw, authentic leading actors you had in the seventies: [Robert] Duvall, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones.
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[on his childhood] I was known as the kid who raised himself... my mother wanted to party and have a life. She was young. I grew up with people smoking dope on the porch. I'm not sad about it at all. And she's really showed up since. But when I was young she didn't do a lot, other than making sure I had clogging lessons.
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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Fact
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Has a son named Lawrence (born 2011).
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Grew up in an 1850s Georgia farmhouse.
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Born in Alabama but raised in Georgia.
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He has had significant dental work done after his teeth were knocked out twice as a child, once while playing baseball and again in an accident on a diving board.
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He initially turned down the role of Boyd Crowder on Justified (2010) because he was concerned it would be a negative stereotype of Southerners. He finally agreed to shoot the pilot, in which Boyd was originally killed. However, his character did so well with testing audiences that it was decided to reshoot the end of the pilot to allow Boyd to live and be a recurring character.
Goggins was the object of Georgia General Assembly House Resolution 1589, which stated that the members of the Georgia House commended him on his distinguished acting career and on his Academy Award on behalf of the residents of Lithia Springs, Douglas County, and the state of Georgia.
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Goggins appeared in an extended trailer (or abbreviated pilot) for a fourth season of the low-rated but critically-beloved TV show, Veronica Mars (2004). Instead of being a college undergraduate, as she was at the end of season three, in the spec season four, Veronica has graduated from college and the FBI Academy and is starting her first day as a FBI agent. The pitch contained a whole new cast of, heretofore unseen, characters and, except for Veronica herself, none of the characters from the show's previous seasons. Goggins was cast as Veronica's FBI supervisor. The CW failed to pick up this new version of Veronica Mars (2004) and the show was canceled.