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25 Biggest Emmy Snubs

24. WALTON GOGGINS
The Shield
Michael Chiklis has garnered most of the award attention for his bulldog-on-steroids performance as Vic Mackey, the head of a stop-at-nothing L.A. police squad. But as his onetime right-hand man and best friend Shane Vendrell, Goggins has proven he's also an acting force to be reckoned with. A loose cannon whose messes keep getting bigger and stickier and more dangerous each season, Shane spun out of control last year in season 6, playing all sides against each other and becoming hell-bent on self-destruction after dropping a hand grenade in the lap of his squad mate at the end of season 5. —Erin E. Stevenson