

Motivated by an abusive childhood and an intense dislike of the corruption and crime run rampant through his home town, Raylan left Harlan to attend college using money is then aunt Helen had saved and hidden so that he could "get out". Raylan is portrayed in flashbacks to this period by actor Danny Wildman. Crowder's family was also heavily involved in Kentucky's criminal underworld.


In his late teen years, Raylan worked the coal mines with his childhood friend Boyd Crowder. Raylan would become familiar with Kentucky's criminal element through Arlo, knowledge that would later prove useful. When his mother died, Helen later married Arlo. As a young boy, he would frequently run away and stay at his Aunt Helen's, who was the first person he knew with cable television. Raylan's childhood was turbulent, mainly due to his out-of-control father who was a career criminal and troublemaker. Raylan Givens was born and raised in rural Harlan County, Kentucky, raised by his abusive, emotionally estranged father, Arlo Givens, his mother Frances Givens and his stepmother Helen Givens, Frances' sister.
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He is portrayed by series star Timothy Olyphant. Now, eight years later, Raylan finds himself in Detroit, hunting a killer known as the Oklahoma Wildman. With the deaths of his father ( Arlo), his step-mother ( Helen) and mother ( Frances), Raylan and his daughter Willa are the only living members of the Givens family. Ghosts from his past - including his ex-wife, a former friend, now involved in criminal militia activity, a criminal father, and his own persistent anger management issues - all come back to haunt him. Having grown up in Harlan County and having spent much of his life trying to escape from it, Raylan is not pleased to be sent back there. He is a quirky, dedicated marshal who, having committed a justified killing in Florida (he shot a mob hit man who had just drawn a gun on him with intent to kill, although Raylan was hoping he would draw his weapon to give him an excuse to shoot him), has been re-assigned to his hometown in Kentucky. He a 19th-century style lawman in the 21st-century. Marshal Raylan Givens is the protagonist of both Justified and Justified: City Primeval.
