Walton Goggins
Walton Goggins ( born November 10, 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is an American actor.
Life and work
The since the late 1980s in several television series, television and feature films Walton Goggins was contributing to a wider audience through the American television series The Shield - known law of force. In this fictional cop show he played Detective Shane Vendrell, one of the main characters.
He was born in Alabama and grew up in the town of Lithia Springs, part of the Douglas County of the State of Georgia, on. His grandmother had there a small village-like post office. At the age of ten he was with his mother in the whole state of Georgia Champion Clogging, a North American tap dance. As BB King was then on a live tour, opened Goggins and his mother with a dance act whose concert at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta.
Walton Goggins is also producer of the short film The Accountant of the U.S. actor and director Ray McKinnon, who was in 2001 for Best Short Film at the Oscars. Although Goggins was not officially named in the ceremony as the winner, he took to the stage with the price in reception.
In addition to The Accountant Goggins is also seen in the other two films ( Chrystal and Randy and the Mob ) by Ray McKinnon as a performer. About That Evening Sun with Hal Holbrook, the McKinnon and Goggins produced in 2009 together for another filmmaker, he says: " There was the possibility of a story to tell about a man who is a wine in winter, at the end of his journey A. man who does not want to say 'goodbye ', and fights, and all the effort that can shape our lives, if you have this setting. "
Walton Goggins ' first wife Leanne suffered from depression and took his life on 12 November 2004. In spring 2011, Goggins got together with Nadia Conners a son.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
- 2001: Winner of the Spirit of Slamdance Award for The Accountant at the Slamdance Film Festival
- 2007: Winner of the Spirit of Slamdance awards for Randy and the Mob at the Slamdance Film Festival
- 2009: Winner of the Special Jury Award in the category Best Ensemble casted for That Evening Sun at SXSW Film Festival
- 2009: Nominated for the TCA Award at the Television Critics Association Awards in the category Best Single Performance for The Shield
- 2011: Nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ( Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series) for Justified