<P> Goggins and McKinnon formed their production company Ginny Mule Pictures, which produced four films: The Accountant (a short film which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001), Chrystal (Sundance Dramatic Competition), Randy and the Mob and That Evening Sun (which won the South by Southwest Special Jury Prize 2009). Goggins and McKinnon created the series Rectify . Goggins was set to play the lead and AMC had bought the pilot script, written by McKinnon, a role which went to Aden Young when the series later went to SundanceTV . </P> <P> Goggins played Boyd Crowder in the pilot episode of the FX series Justified, and was a recurring cast member in the first season of the show, while also shooting a major supporting role as a deadly death row inmate being hunted by the titular antagonists in the film Predators . In May 2010, his role was promoted to the main cast for the second season . In May 2011, he appeared in "Code of the West", a commercial for Ram Truck's "Guts & Glory" campaign . He appeared in Cowboys & Aliens as Hunt, a bandit formerly in the employ of the protagonist . In July 2011, Goggins was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role on Justified . He portrayed Billy Crash, a sadistic overseer and slave fighting trainer, in the 2012 film Django Unchained . </P> <P> From 2012 to 2013, Goggins guest - starred as transgender prostitute Venus Van Damme in the FX series Sons of Anarchy . He previously worked with the show's creator, Kurt Sutter, when the latter was a writer and executive producer on The Shield . The name "Venus Van Damme" is a play on the undercover name "Cletus Van Damme" used by Shane Vendrell on The Shield . </P> <P> He played Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight and Lee Russell in the HBO series Vice Principals . Reviewing in The New York Times, critic Mike Hale wrote, "Walton Goggins makes a habit of being the best thing about the television shows he's in ." </P>

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