An intense method actor who spent many years struggling in supporting roles as good-natured southerners, Walton Goggins emerged as a star by playing the corrupt and erratic Detective Shane Vendrell on the gritty cop drama, “The Shield” (FX, 2002-08). For seven seasons, Goggin’s Vendrell amassed a laundry list of sins, not least of which was the murder of his fellow cop and best friend out of fear he might reveal the misdeeds of the notorious Strike Team, a four-man crime fighting force led by the implacable Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis). Prior to his star-making turn on “The Shield,” Goggins
