Walton Goggins
Walton Goggins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States on November 10th, 1971 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 52, Walton Goggins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Goggins worked for a valet car parking service and various restaurants in Los Angeles. After starring in a few roles in Georgia, he met Ray McKinnon while filming Murder in Mississippi.
Goggins played Shane Vendrell in the FX series The Shield. He formed the 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. 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.
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. 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. He portrayed Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 film Django Unchained.
Goggins played 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. He played Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight and Lee Russell in the HBO series Vice Principals. 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."
In 2018, Goggins played Lawrence in Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Mathias Vogel in Tomb Raider, and Sonny Burch in Ant-Man and the Wasp. He 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.