- Born
- Birth nameWalton Sanders Goggins Jr.
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Walton can currently be seen starring in the breakout hit series, FALLOUT at Amazon for writer/director Jonathan Nolan. His performance has garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He can also be seen reprising his role of 'Baby Billy' in the HBO comedy series THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES, opposite Danny McBride. Walton can next be seen starring as the male lead in season 3 of THE WHITE LOTUS for HBO.
Walton can previously be seen starring in Boots Riley's Amazon limited series I'M A VIRGO opposite Jharrel Jerome, starring in the Apple limited series THE LAST DAYS OF PTOLEMY GREY opposite Samuel L. Jackson, on season two of the Fox Networks Group series DEEP STATE, which he plays the role of 'Nathan Miller' and starring on the CBS comedy THE UNICORN. He can also be seen starring in the film DREAMIN' WILD starring opposite Casey Affleck and Zoey Deschanel. Walton first came to prominence portraying the cunning and morally ambiguous outlaw 'Boyd Crowder' in the hit FX series JUSTIFIED. Concurrently, Walton made quite the splash with his earth-shattering performance in FX's SON'S OF ANARCHY, portraying the transsexual prostitute 'Venus Van Dam'. Prior to that, Walton starred in the hit series THE SHIELD. He also played key roles in the Quentin Tarantino films DJANGO: UNCHAINED and THE HATEFUL EIGHT as 'Billy Crash' and 'Sheriff Chris Mannix'.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Craig Shapiro
- SpousesNadia Conners(July 28, 2011 - present) (1 child)Leanne Goggins(2001 - November 12, 2004) (her death)
- ChildrenAugustus Goggins
- ParentsWalton Sanders Goggins SrJanet Long
- His carrier is associated with two sides of law: often times he plays police officers and psycho-killers.
- 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.
- 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.
- Born in Alabama but raised in Georgia.
- Good friends with his Justified (2010) co-star Timothy Olyphant.
- Is an avid photographer and traveler.
- The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
- My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
- I don't take a scene or word for granted.
- [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.
- [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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