Tort Lawyer, Onetime Reservist Plays Army Col. in 'Green Zone'
Click here to watch the clip featuring Allen Vaught, left.
Allen Vaught, a lawyer at Baron & Budd in Dallas, a state representative and former U.S. Army reserves captain with a Purple Heart will make his debut on the big screen Friday in the Green Zone, starring Matt Damon.
Vaught has a brief speaking part in the film, which is based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City and features several other veterans as actors, Tex Parte Blog reports. He plays Col. Jonathan Vaught. He says on his website that director Paul Greengrass let him name his character after his son.
Vaught commanded one of the first units to enter Fallujah and served in Iraq from April 2003 to March 2004, according to his website. He told Tex Parte Blog in an e-mail that while he was there, he was interviewed by Imperial Life author Rajiv Chandrasekaran, who was then the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. Then the Green Zone producer contacted Vaught in 2007 about providing technical assistance on the movie.