Allen Vaught: lawyer, soldier, legislator and now actor

The new Matt Damon movie, “Green Zone,” scheduled for release Friday, features a face familiar to those who haunt the halls of the Texas Capitol.  State Rep. Allen Vaught, D-Dallas, an attorney at Baron & Budd (pictured during his military service in Iraq), appears in a brief scene in which Damon, who plays Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, is questioning the intelligence provided to troops in Iraq. Vaught even has a brief speaking role in the war thriller, a clip of which is featured on Vaught’s Web site. As noted on Vaught’s Web site, the movie is based on “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” written by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for The Washington Post. Vaught writes in an e-mail that Chandrasekaran and his partner interviewed Vaught in the summer of 2003 about problems in Fallujah. As noted on Vaught’s Web site, he was a captain in the U.S. Army reserves, serving in Iraq from April 2003 to March 2004 and commanding one of the first units to enter Fallujah; he served as the de facto mayor of Fallujah. Vaught notes in an e-mail that he received the Purple Heart after he was wounded by a roadside bomb, fracturing his back. Vaught writes in the e-mail that the producer of the “Green Zone” contacted him about providing technical assistance for the movie. Vaught’s Web site notes, “The movie is unique in that it incorporates many Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as actors in an effort to add authenticity to the film.”  The Web site also features a photo of Vaught and Damon.
-- Mary Alice Robbins

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