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John Goodman

Acting

2.8 Popularity Jun 20, 1952 (73 years old) Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

John Stephen Goodman is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "...

Biography

John Stephen Goodman is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Vanity Fair has called Goodman "among our very finest actors."

Goodman is known for his collaborations with the Coen brothers, acting in films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Barton Fink (1991), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He took on leading roles in King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992), Matinee (1993), The Flintstones (1994), and 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). Goodman also had supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds (1984), True Stories (1986), Sea of Love (1989), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Storytelling (2001), Speed Racer (2008), The Artist (2011), Flight (2012), Argo (2012), The Hangover Part III (2013), and  Atomic Blonde (2017). He has voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise (2000–2008), the Monsters, Inc. franchise (2001–present), The Jungle Book 2 (2003), and Bee Movie (2007).

On television, Goodman gained recognition by playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997; 2018) and The Conners (2018–present). Goodman had regular roles in the HBO drama series Treme (2010–2011), the legal drama series Damages (2011), the political comedy series Alpha House (2013–2014), and the HBO comedy series The Righteous Gemstones (2019–present). He has been a frequent host of Saturday Night Live (1989–2013) and has guest starred in The West Wing (2003–2004), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006), and Community (2011–2012). 

Goodman started his career at The Public Theatre, acting in numerous productions, including Henry IV, Part 1 (1981), The Skin of Our Teeth (1998), and The Seagull (2001). He made his Broadway debut in Big River (1985), for which Goodman received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nomination. He returned to Broadway in revivals of the Samuel Becket play Waiting for Godot (2009) and the newspaper comedy The Front Page (2016). Goodman debuted his West End in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo (2015).

Filmography 205

2026
Judy Movie
2025
Smurfs Movie

as Papa Smurf (voice)

2023
2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters TV

as Bill Randa (archive footage)

2021
The Freak Brothers TV

as Fat Freddy Freekowtski (voice)

2021
Monsters at Work TV

as Sulley (voice)

2020
Easy Does It Movie

as "Catfish" Crawford (voice)

2019
The Righteous Gemstones TV

as Eli Gemstone

2019
2019
Captive State Movie

as William Mulligan

2018
Real Life Movie

as Louis Fyne

2018
The Conners TV

as Dan Conner

2018
Black Earth Rising TV

as Michael Ennis

2017
Atomic Blonde Movie

as Emmett Kurzfeld

2017
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight Movie

as Hound (voice)

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Personal Details

Known For Acting
Gender Male
Birthday June 20, 1952 (73 years old)
Place of Birth Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Also Known As 約翰·古德曼, ジョン・グッドマン, 존 굿맨 and 8 more
Years Active 1953 - 2026
Popularity 2.8
Career Stats
205 Total Credits
148 Movie Roles
56 TV Roles
6 Photos