Walton Goggins is an actor from the United States who has had a good career on TV and has appeared in several very famous Hollywood films. He played in Tarantino's films Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015), in Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln (2012), in the Marvel Studios blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), etc..d.
Early biography
Walton Goggins was born in 1971 in Birmingham (but we are not talking about English Birmingham, but about a city in the American state of Alabama). Little is known about his parents, but his aunt and uncle, according to some sources, were theater actors.
At some point, the Goggins family settled in Georgia, and it was there that he went to school. In addition, he attended Georgia Southern University for one year.
When Walton was 19 years old, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began to realize himself as an actor. In general, in the nineties he had a lot of roles, but all of them were, as a rule, episodic.
In 1990, he played a minor character in the television movie Murder in the Mississippi. This film is based on the true story of three civil society activists from the sixties - Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Cheney.
Then Walton appeared in small guest roles in the series "The Renegade", "I'll Fly," "Beverly Hills 90210".
Also during this period, Goggins took part in the filming of such films as "The Karate Kid 4" (1994), "Creatures from the Abyss" (1996), "Cherokee" (1996), "The Apostle" (1997), "Major League 3 "(1998), etc.
Goggins' creativity in the XXI century
In 2001, Goggins, together with his old friend Ray McKinnon (they met on the set of Murders in Mississippi) and his wife Lisa Blount, founded the production company Ginny Mule Pictures. The first film of this company was called "The Accountant". This 35-minute tape tells the story of an ordinary American accountant who, with the help of his professional skills, is trying to save the O'Dell brothers' family farm from ruin … Interestingly, "The Accountant" became an Oscar winner in 2001 in the Best Short Fiction Film nomination. ".
Later, Ginny Mule Pictures released several full-length films, including Randy and the Crowd (2007) and It's Evening Sun (2009). And by the way, in both of these films, Goggins played key characters.
It is also worth noting that from 2002 to 2008 (that is, for seven seasons) Goggins starred in the rather popular TV series "The Shield". This series was interesting in that it refused to glorify the American police and showed them from the "dark side". The main characters of the "Shield" not only investigate crimes, but also cover up drug dealers, forge evidence, use illegal methods of interrogation, etc. Here Goggins portrayed the young and resourceful police officer Shane Wendrell, and for this role he received a Television Critics Association (TCA) Award nomination.
In 2010, Goggins entered the mainstream of the series "Justice". And here, until 2015, he played the role of Boyd Crowder. According to the script, Boyd was a friend of the central character of the series - Federal Marshal Reylan Givens. Ultimately, for his performance in Justice, Goggins was nominated for an Emmy, America's premier television award.
However, in recent years, the actor has starred not only in good TV shows, but also in top Hollywood films. Let's say in 2012 Goggins played in Steven Spielberg's famous biopic "Lincoln". Here he got the role of Democratic Congressman Clay Hawkins.
And over the past eight years, Walton has appeared twice in Quentin Tarantino's films. In Django Unchained (2012), he portrayed Billy Crash, a brutal trainer whose task, according to the plot, was to train black male slaves for deadly duels. And in The Hateful Eight (2015), he played Chris Mannix, the sheriff of the town of Red Rock, who fought on the side of the Confederates during the American Civil War.
Plus, in 2018, Goggins starred in the blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp, part of the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe. He appeared here as Sonny Birch, a black market tech trader from whom Hope Van Dyne (aka Wasp) wanted to buy a stabilizer for the quantum tunnel.
It is worth mentioning the most recent project of the actor - the sitcom "Unicorn". The premiere of the first episode of "Unicorn" took place on the American channel CBS on September 26, 2019.
This series tells the story of a man named Wade (played by Goggins), who, after the death of his wife, brings up two teenage daughters alone. At some point, he decides to search for new relationships and new love, and suddenly finds out that to many single women he seems to be a profitable party.
Interestingly, Goggins is not only the main star of "Unicorn", but also produces this series.
Facts and information about the personal life of the actor
In 2001, Goggins married a woman named Leanne. This marriage lasted only three years and ended tragically - on November 12, 2004, Leanne died.
In August 2011, the actor married again. His second wife was Nadia Conners, a director by profession. And six months before this wedding (in February 2011), the couple had a boy named August. At the moment, Nadia and Walton still live together.
In the 2008 elections, Goggins supported the Democratic Party and its main candidate, Barack Obama. He is also known as a fan of the journalistic works of Jimmy Carter, a Democrat politician who served as President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
Walton Goggins is an avid photographer. He even started a special blog, where he posted some of his work.
Another hobby of Goggins is traveling. He spends much of his free time traveling around the world. The actor has already visited India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Namibia, Mozambique and Morocco.
