Walton Goggins
| Walton Goggins | |
|---|---|
 Goggins at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International promoting The Hateful Eight | |
| Born |
Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. November 10, 1971 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, filmmaker |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Leanne Goggins (m. 2001; d. 2004) Nadia Conners (m. 2011) |
| Children | 1 |
Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor. On television, he played Shane Vendrell in The Shield and Boyd Crowder in Justified. He has also appeared in films, such as That Evening Sun, The Apostle, Chrystal, Miracle at St. Anna, Predators, Lincoln, Django Unchained, Machete Kills, American Ultra and The Hateful Eight. He co-produced and starred in the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.[1]
Early life
Goggins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Janet Long and Walton Sanders Goggins Sr.[2] He was raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia, he attended Douglas County High School, and moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of nineteen.[3][4] He attended Georgia Southern University for one year.[1]
Career
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When he was 19, Goggins moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. He worked on a valet car parking service for various restaurants in the valley and sold cowboy boots. In 1990, after working in a few acting roles in Georgia, he got his first big break in Murder in Mississippi. While filming, Goggins met and became friends with Ray McKinnon, who played his father in the film, and with whom he began a creative partnership that continues to this day. Goggins played Detective Shane Vendrell in the FX series The Shield (2002–2008).[5]
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 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). Goggins and McKinnon created the series Rectify.[6] 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.[7]
Goggins played Boyd Crowder in the pilot episode of the FX series Justified, and was a recurring cast member in the first season of the show, while also shooting a major supporting role as a deadly death row inmate being hunted by the titular antagonists in the film Predators. In May 2010, Goggins' character was promoted to the main cast for the second season of Justified.[8] 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.[9] He portrayed Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 film Django Unchained.[10]
From 2012 to 2013, Goggins guest-starred as transgender prostitute Venus Van Damme 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 Damme" is a play on the undercover name "Cletus Van Damme" used by Goggins' character on The Shield.[11]
In 2015, he played Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight and stars in HBO's television series Vice Principals.[12] [1]
Professional recognition
Goggins 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,[13] 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 2012, the principal cast of Quentin Tarantino'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' role of Boyd Crowder in Justified received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series[14] 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.
Goggins' role of Venus Van Dam in 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 and 2015.
Personal life
He married filmmaker Nadia Conners in August 2011, and they had a son, Augustus (born February 2011).[15] Goggins is an avid photographer and showcases some of his work on a blog[16] that he created, when he took time off work and traveled across India.[16] He is an avid traveler, spending much of his free time in Cambodia, Central America, Morocco, Thailand and Vietnam.[17][18]
He is active in various non-profit organizations that range from environmental to humanitarian work.[18] He regularly attends Global Green USA events.[18] 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Mr. Saturday Night | Shaky Kid | Uncredited |
| 1992 | Forever Young | Gate MP | |
| 1994 | The Next Karate Kid | Charlie | |
| 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 | Daddy and Them | Tommy Christian | |
| 2001 | Joy Ride | Cop (DVD additional footage) | Uncredited |
| 2001 | The Accountant | Tommy O'Dell | Short film |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Research Tech | |
| 2002 | Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder | Almanzo Wilder | |
| 2003 | House of 1000 Corpses | Deputy Steve Nash | |
| 2003 | Apple Jack | Moe Danyou | Short film |
| 2004 | Chrystal | Larry | |
| 2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Marty Dickerson | |
| 2006 | The Architect | Joe | |
| 2007 | Randy and The Mob | Tino Armani | |
| 2008 | Winged Creatures | Zack | |
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | Nokes | |
| 2009 | That Evening Sun | Paul Meecham | |
| 2009 | Damage | Reno | |
| 2010 | Predators | Stans | |
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens | Hunt | |
| 2011 | Straw Dogs | Daniel | |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Wells A. Hutchins | |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Billy Crash | |
| 2013 | Officer Down | Angel / Detective Logue | |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Warden Nigel James | |
| 2013 | Machete Kills | El Cameleón | |
| 2015 | Mojave | Jim | |
| 2015 | American Ultra | Laugher | |
| 2015 | Diablo | Ezra | |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | Chris Mannix |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | In the Heat of the Night | Darrell / Robbie Jeffries / Garth Watkins | 3 episodes |
| 1990 | Murder in Mississippi | Lyle | Television film |
| 1992 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Mike Muchin | Episode: "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| 1992 | Stay the Night | Wayne Seagrove | Television film |
| 1993 | For Love and Glory | Buck | Television film |
| 1995 | JAG | Marine 2nd Lieutenant | Episode: "Desert Son" |
| 1996 | Humanoids from the Deep | Rod | Television film |
| 1996 | The Cherokee Kid | Jim Bob | Television film |
| 1996 | Pacific Blue | Harv | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | NYPD Blue | Terry | Episode: "Honeymoon at Viagra Falls" |
| 2001 | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Billy Weber | Television film |
| 2002–08 | The Shield | Detective Shane Vendrell | 88 episodes |
| 2007 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Marlon Frost | Episode: "Empty Eyes" |
| 2009 | Criminal Minds | John Cooley | Episode: "Demonology" |
| 2009 | CSI: Miami | Sean Echols | Episode: "Dissolved" |
| 2010–15 | Justified | Boyd Crowder | 74 episodes |
| 2012–14 | Sons of Anarchy | Venus Van Dam | 6 episodes |
| 2013 | To Appomattox | Richard Ewell | 5 episodes |
| 2014 | Community | Mr. Stone | Episode: "Cooperative Polygraphy" |
| 2016–present | Vice Principals | Lee Russell | 9 episodes[19] |
| 2016 | Six | Richard "Rip" Taggart |
| Year | Title | Voice role |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom | Border World Pilot |
Awards and nominations
References
- 1 2 3 Wilson Hunt, Stacey (15 July 2016). "Walton Goggins on 25 Years of Playing 'That Guy'". Vulture. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ↑ 5:00pm (1971-11-10). "Walton Goggins Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- ↑ "Walton Goggins Interview". youtube.
- ↑ "Walton Goggins Biography". Yahoo Canada. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ↑ IMDb Walton Goggins Retrieved March 6, 2015
- ↑ The AV Club Walton Goggins Interview Jan 31, 2012 Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ The Week Rectify is the successor to Mad Men you've been looking for June 20, 2014 Retrieved March 6, 2015
- ↑ "Justified Promotes Walton Goggins to Series Regular". TVGuide.com.
- ↑ Stuart Levine (July 14, 2011). "Nomination reaction: Walton Goggins". Variety. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ↑ Christopher M (April 12, 2012). "Walton Goggins Joins "Django Unchained". Celluloid and Cigarette Burns. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ↑ Highfill, Samantha (2012-10-09). "'Sons of Anarchy': Walton Goggins talks Venus Van Dam | Inside TV | EW.com". Insidetv.ew.com. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ↑ 'Justified's' Walton Goggins to Star in HBO's 'Vice Principals' February 9, 2015 Retrieved March 6, 2015
- ↑ Anon., 2015, "Archives–2004 Sundance Film Festival: "Chrystal" (Director: Ray McKinnon, Screenwriters: Ray McKinnon), see , accessed 26 January 2015.
- ↑ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Emmys.com. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
- ↑ "Under the Radar interview with Walton Goggins".
- 1 2 lmfarms. "hindu to you too". Hindutoyoutoo.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
- ↑ South China Morning Post; "Style" magazine; 4 April 2014; Hollywood star Walton Goggins shows us the man behind the shield
- 1 2 3 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324658/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3766376/combined
- 1 2 3 "Walton Goggins on IMDB".
- ↑ "Critics' Choice Television Awards". Critics’ Choice Awards.
External links
- Walton Goggins at the Internet Movie Database
- Audio Interview w/ The Rafferty/Mills Connection Podcast (2009)
- myFanbase Interview with Walton Goggins on "Justified" and "The Shield", December 2011
- Walton Goggins Fan