John Goodman
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).
Filmography (74)
Smurfs
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain
Atomic Blonde
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Transformers: The Last Knight
Kong: Skull Island
Patriots Day
10 Cloverfield Lane
Love the Coopers
Trumbo
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Monuments Men
The Gambler
Monsters University
The Hangover Part III
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Internship
Flight
Argo
The Campaign
ParaNorman
Trouble with the Curve
The Artist
Red State
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
You Don't Know Jack
The Princess and the Frog
Confessions of a Shopaholic
In the Electric Mist
Speed Racer
Gigantic
Evan Almighty
Death Sentence
Bee Movie
Cars
Kronk's New Groove
Beyond the Sea
The Jungle Book 2
Masked and Anonymous
Dirty Deeds
Monsters, Inc.
My First Mister
One Night at McCool's
Storytelling
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Emperor's New Groove
Coyote Ugly
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
What Planet Are You From?
Bringing Out the Dead
The Jack Bull
The Big Lebowski
Blues Brothers 2000
Fallen
Dirty Work
The Borrowers
The Flintstones
The Hudsucker Proxy
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Matinee
The Babe
Barton Fink
King Ralph
Arachnophobia
Always
Sea of Love
Punchline
Raising Arizona
True Stories
The Big Easy
Revenge of the Nerds
C.H.U.D.
Maria's Lovers
