- Born
- Birth nameWalter Wesley Sloan
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Walt Sloan is an actor, based in Chicago, who has appeared in over 100 films and television productions, in several national and regional commercials, and numerous industrial and educational films.
He received Best Supporting Actor from the Rome International Movie Awards for his performance in "Fangs Vs Spurs." He has had lead roles in several award-winning short and feature films, including "Civil," winner of a Special Jury Award in the 2018 deadCenter Film Festival, "Day 1," winner of Best Guerrilla Feature at the 2016 Action on Film International Film Festival, "Fate Accompli," winner of Best Thriller Short in the 2014 Illinois International Film Festival, and "Only Thunder," awarded First Place in the short film category at the 2013 Sunset International Film Festival in Los Angeles. He also had a supporting roles in "Return to the Hiding Place," winner of Best Feature and Audience Choice Award at the 2013 San Antonio Christian Film Festival, and. "4 and a Half Terrorists," winner of the 2008 Chicago Comedy TV Pilot Competition. As a writer, he received a Best Screenplay Award in 2011 for his religious thriller "The Salus Imperative."
In addition to acting and writing, Walt sings bass/baritone with The Buckthorns, a 12-member mixed a cappella group that has been performing in the Chicago area since 1995.
Walt is represented for acting, voice, and print by Shirley Hamilton Talent.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Walt is an inventor, with 16 patents in the fields of optical electronic instrumentation and electronic commerce.
- In addition be being an actor, Walt is also a writer. His screenplay, a religious thriller titled "The Salus Imperative", was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2011 Naperville Independent Film Festival.
- Walt is married to Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan, the creator of SALSArobics®, who was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2010 as the pioneer in introducing authentic Latin rhythms and dance steps into the aerobics industry.
- Since 2001, Walt has been singing bass/baritone for The Buckthorns, an eleven-member mixed a cappella group, popular in the Chicago area, that has released three CDs since 2003.
- Walt is a published author in the Journal of Addictive Diseases for "Hypothesis for Temporal Displacement of Metabolic and Neuronal Accommodation in Smoking Addiction" (1999), and in Color Research & Application for "Correction of single-beam sample absorption error in a generalized spectrophotometer cavity" (2013).
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