Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins was born in the year 1971 and he is an actor of American nationality.

In the Sons of Anarchy, he was Venus Van Dam, in Vice Principle, he was Lee Russell. He had appeared in the films like The Hateful Eight, American Ultra, Machette Kills, Django Unchained, Lincoln, Predators, Miracle at St Anna, Chrystal, The Apostle and That Evening. He was the co-producer and also the star of a short film called The Accountant and it helped him to win Academy Award in Best Live action Short film.

Goggins had been in Birmingham, in Alabama. His mother is Janet Long while the father is Walton Sanders Goggins Sr. He grew up in the city of Lithia Springs of Georgia and then attended Lithia Springs High school. Afterwards, he moved to live in Los Angeles when he was 19 years old. He went to Georgia Southern University for just a year.

According to his biography, when he turned 19 years old, Walton Goggins moved and went to live in Los Angeles. This is when he wanted to pursue acting career. After working for some acting role in the city of Georgia, he got the big break when he played in Murder in Mississippi. When he was filming it, he became a friend to Ray McKinnon who was playing as his father in this film. Together, they started the creative partnership which continued up to now. Goggins did play as Detective Shane Vendrell in the Shield, an FX series.

Together with McKinnon, they formed the productive company named Ginny Mule pictures and it was able to produce up to four films, the Randy and the Mob, Chrystal, That Evening Sun and The Accountant. They were in charge of the series called Rectify.

Goggins was a Boyd Crowder of the pilot film, the justified at the FX series. He was the recurring cast in this show. He was promoted as the main cast within the second season for Justified. He was in Code of the West, this is a commercial of Guts & Glory campaign of Ram Truck. He appeared in the Cowboys & Aliens where he was Hunt. For the role he had in Justified, he got nominated to work in Primetime Emmy Award, in the Outstanding Supporting actor of Drama Series.

For his personal life, Walton Goggins got married to Leanne Kaun Goggins, she is the owner of the Laurel Canyon of California. They were no longer together, at the time of her death. He got married again to Nadai Conners in the year 2011 and they had the son called Augustus. He is the active person in different nonprofit organization which includes humanitarian work and environmental work. He also attended Global Green USA activities. He was nominated and won different awards. He can be followed on social media and his net worth is 8 million dollars.

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