Walton Goggins

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Walton Goggins

Walton Goggins, May 2007
Born November 10, 1971 (1971-11-10) (age 36)
Birmingham, Alabama

Walton Sanders Goggins, Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor. He is a regular on the FX Networks series, The Shield, portraying "Detective Shane Vendrell". Goggins was 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.

Goggins was born in Alabama and raised in Lithia Springs, Georgia. 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.

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NAME Goggins, Walton
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971-11-10
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Alabama
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