
John Goodman
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Biography
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) 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).
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Community

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Simpsons

The Equalizer

Monsters at Work

Ed

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The West Wing

King of the Hill

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Grand

Futurama

Ruby Wax Meets

SpongeBob SquarePants

The Jackie Thomas Show

Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Treme

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The Campaign

Transformers: The Last Knight

Dirty Work

The Internship

The Hudsucker Proxy

Cars

Damages

Smurfs

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Chiefs

Transformers: Age of Extinction

The Righteous Gemstones

Ratchet & Clank

Inside Llewyn Davis

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

It's a SpongeBob Christmas!

The Princess and the Frog

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

ParaNorman

Evan Almighty

Sweet Dreams

Trouble with the Curve

The Hangover Part III

Coyote Ugly

Kronk's New Groove

Father of the Pride

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Bee Movie

Clifford's Really Big Movie

Argo

Masked and Anonymous

Flight

Atomic Blonde

Bringing Out the Dead

Speed Racer

Kong: Skull Island

Arachnophobia

Roseanne

Blues Brothers 2000

Mike's New Car

The Emperor's New Groove

Party Central

Monsters University

The Big Lebowski

Patriots Day

The Jack Bull

The Gambler

The Jungle Book 2

Center of the Universe

10 Cloverfield Lane

The Mystery of the Morro Castle

Monsters, Inc.

The Flintstones

On the Edge

The Conners

Alpha House
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