In 2014, Riggs also won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actor after previously being nominated for the award in 20. For his performance in the series as Carl, Riggs was nominated for the Saturn Award forīest Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series five consecutive times and won the award three times in 2014, 2016, and 2018. Riggs and the other main cast members of The Walking Dead won the 2012 Satellite Award for Best Cast in a Television Series. Proving to be a ratings success, the series became the #1 show in all of television among adults 18-49. The series follows Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln), the father of Riggs' character Carl, as he and his group of family, friends, and strangers fight to survive in a violent apocalyptic world populated with zombies and the few surviving humans, some of whom are even more dangerous than the zombies themselves. Riggs had previously worked with the series' executive producer Gale Anne Hurd on The Wronged Man. In 2010 at age 10, Riggs was cast as Carl Grimes, his biggest role to date, on the AMC horror-drama television series The Walking Dead, which is based on the eponymous comic book series. The latter film, which aired on Lifetime in 2010, saw Riggs acting opposite Julia Ormond as her son. At age nine in 2009, he was cast in his first two feature film roles in Get Low as Tom and in the television film The Wronged Man as seven-year-old Ryan Gregory.
At age five, he starred in the indie horror film Jesus H. His early work included stage productions of The Wizard of Oz, where he played a Munchkin in his theater debut, and Oklahoma with Theater of the Stars at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. Riggs studied tap dancing for several years with So You Think You Can Dance finalist Zack Everhart. Riggs was born on Jin Atlanta, Georgia to Gina Ann (née Carlton) and William Riggs.