Walton Goggins

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Walton Goggins as Detective Shane Vendrell on The Shield
Walton Goggins as Detective Shane Vendrell on The Shield

Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born 1971) is an American actor born in Alabama and raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia. He is a regular on the FX Networks series, The Shield, portraying "Detective Shane Vendrell".

Goggins was also producer of the 2001 short film The Accountant, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. While Goggins was not officially listed as a winner, he did go up during the ceremony and accept the award alongside Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount.

[edit] Personal life

At the age of 10, Goggins and his mother were the state wide champion cloggers, otherwise known as Mountain Dancing. When B.B. King was on tour, Goggins and his mother opened for him at the Atlanta Fulton County Prison.

He wed wife, Leanne, on the set of Shanghai Noon in Canada in 2001. Leanne Goggins suffered from severe clinical depression and tragically committed suicide by jumping from a building in Los Angeles on 12 November 2004. All his cast mates from The Shield attended Leanne's memorial service.

[edit] Filmography

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