Leanne Goggins Was Walton Goggins First Wife – The Actor Later Remarried & Started a Family

Leanne Goggins wed Walton Goggins in the early 2000s; however, their marriage was cut short when Leanne died in 2004. Walton has rarely spoken about his first wife, but he found new love and remarried in 2011.

Walton Goggins has been a familiar face on screen for decades and has been relatively private about his personal life. His first wife was Leanne Goggins (nee Knight), and the pair were only married for three years.

Little is known about Leanne, but she died tragically in late 2004. Her former husband has rarely spoken about her since her death, though he once briefly opened up. Walton remarried many years after her passing and welcomed a son with his now-wife.

Walton Goggins on His First Wife's Death

Leanne was born to Peggy Kaun and Robert Brian Knight in 1967, in New Brunswick, Canada. She committed suicide on November 12, 2004, by jumping from the 17th floor of a Los Angeles building, though she is said to have died from injuries afterward.

She was buried back in Alberta, Canada, at the Rocky View Garden of Peace Cemetery. Leanne was survived by her mother, Peggy; her father, Robert, who died in 2016; her stepfather, Arnold Kaun; her brother, Jay; and her ex-husband, Walton.

Walton opened up about how her death affected him in a 2019 interview. "I drifted for upwards of three years after that. It took me a really long time to come back from it," the actor reflected.

"If it weren't for the people in my life that cared about me, that stepped in and helped me understand that life goes on, I don't know what would have happened," he continued.

Leanne Goggins' Ex-husband Played a Widower in a Series

Walton snagged the role of Wade Felton in the comedy-drama series "The Unicorn." The show followed Wade as a widower who lost his wife to cancer — leaving him as the sole caregiver for his two daughters — making his way back into the dating scene.

Speaking of playing Wade, Walton admitted the part hit close to home. "It's more me than anything else I've ever played. I just go where the material is. And when this came along, I just fell deeply in love with him and his struggles," he said.

Additionally, Walton felt "really insecure" about whether he could "pull it off" but overcame that fear. He shared that part of what helped was asking the creators to switch from filming via multiple cameras in front of a studio audience to a single camera on a sound stage.

Walton Goggins Remarried Filmmaker Nadia Conners

Walton wed Nadia Conners in 2011. Nadia graduated from The American University of Paris in 1992 and is the former Creative Director of Tree Media Group. She has been writing and directing since 2000.

Among her best-known works is the 2007 documentary "The 11th Hour," which starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Narrator and Stephen Hawking. She currently has another production on the way titled "The Uninvited," which stars Walton, Rufus Sewell, and Pedro Pascal.

Nadia and Walton are parents to a son named Augustus, and the youngster frequently appears on his mom's Instagram page. In March 2022, she shared a photo of herself and Augustus enjoying warm beverages and wrote, "Maru with my [black-clad] equestrian. Beautiful LA!!"