1. John Stephen Goodman was born on June 20,1952 and is an American actor.
57 Facts About John Goodman
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John Goodman rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor.
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John Goodman took leading roles in King Ralph, The Babe, Matinee, The Flintstones, and 10 Cloverfield Lane as well as supporting roles in Revenge of the Nerds, True Stories, Bringing Out the Dead, Speed Racer, The Artist, Flight, Argo, and Atomic Blonde.
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John Goodman voiced roles in The Emperor's New Groove franchise, the Monsters, Inc franchise, and Bee Movie.
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On television, John Goodman gained recognition playing the family patriarch Dan Conner in the ABC comedy series Roseanne, and The Conners.
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John Goodman has played English professor in the drama series Treme, a military contractor in the legal drama series Damages, a Republican Senator in the political satire Alpha House, and a televangelist in the comedy series The Righteous Gemstones.
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John Goodman guest starred in The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Community, and is a member of the Five Timers Club having hosted Saturday Night Live 13 times from 1989 to 2013.
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John Goodman started his career at The Public Theatre acting numerous productions including Henry IV, Part 1, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Seagull.
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John Goodman made his Broadway debut Big River, for which Goodman received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical nomination.
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John Goodman returned to Broadway in revivals of the Samuel Becket play Waiting for Godot, and the newspaper comedy The Front Page.
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John Goodman made his West End debut in a revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo.
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John Stephen Goodman was born on June 20,1952 in Affton, Missouri.
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John Goodman's father, Leslie Francis Goodman, was a postal worker who died of a heart attack when Goodman was two years old.
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John Goodman's mother, Virginia Roos, was a waitress at Jack and Phil's Bar-B-Que, a retail store worker, and took in laundry to support the family.
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John Goodman has an older brother, Leslie, who is 14 years his senior, and a younger sister, Elisabeth, who was born six months after his father died.
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John Goodman is of English, German, and Welsh ancestry and was raised Southern Baptist.
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John Goodman described his childhood as alone and withdrawn after his father had died so early and his brother had left to go to college.
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Until ninth grade, John Goodman was in the Boy Scouts, which he said offered him the structure and camaraderie he missed; John Goodman additionally looked to Boy Scout leaders, and later, acting coaches, as father figures.
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John Goodman read his brother's copies of Mad and later confessed to shoplifting its paperback editions.
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John Goodman went to Affton High School, where he played football and dabbled in theater.
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John Goodman earned a football scholarship to Missouri State University in Springfield but tore his ACL before ever suiting-up to go onto the field.
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John Goodman pledged Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, though he did not join until several years later.
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John Goodman discovered the university's drama program and studied there with future Hollywood stars Kathleen Turner and Tess Harper.
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In December 2013, John Goodman stated his school friends were his closest ones.
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John Goodman graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975, and in 2013, the university presented him with an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters.
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However, John Goodman eventually found modest success in voice-overs, commercials, and plays.
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John Goodman performed off-Broadway and in dinner theaters before landing character roles in film during the early 1980s.
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In 1982, John Goodman made his film debut with a small role in Eddie Macon's Run.
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John Goodman rose to fame in acting by playing the role of Dan Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne from 1988 to 1997.
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John Goodman returned to the character in 2018 for the revived, 10th season, where he said "Roseanne and I just went back to having a ball", and then stayed on for the show's subsequent spin-off The Conners.
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John Goodman had a long history of appearances on late night comedy shows and was the first guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which won him the series' "First Guest Medal".
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John Goodman has hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live 13 times, while making seven cameo appearances as Linda Tripp during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, three appearances as Rex Tillerson, and cameoing on the season 28 finale hosted by former SNL cast member Dan Aykroyd.
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John Goodman first worked with the Coen Brothers on Raising Arizona.
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John Goodman worked with Steven Spielberg on Always and had a supporting role in Arachnophobia.
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John Goodman had guest roles on the Aaron Sorkin television dramas The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
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John Goodman voiced Robot Santa in the character's first appearance on Futurama.
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In 2000, Goodman provided the voice of Pacha in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and, a year later, the voice of James P "Sulley" Sullivan in Pixar's Monsters, Inc He returned to the character for the film's 2013 prequel Monsters University, the 2021 Disney+ series Monsters at Work, and for a 2024 update of the video game Disney Dreamlight Valley.
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In 2007, Goodman voiced Layton T Montgomery in Bee Movie.
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John Goodman played the role of Pozzo in a Studio 54 revival of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, opposite Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane.
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John Goodman was cast in In the Electric Mist as Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni.
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John Goodman played Creighton Bernette, a Tulane English professor, in the show's first season.
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In 2011, John Goodman was a guest star on the third season of Community.
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Also in 2011, John Goodman starred in Kevin Smith's Red State playing ATF Agent Joseph Keenan.
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In February 2012, it was reported that John Goodman would reunite with Roseanne Barr for a new NBC pilot titled Downwardly Mobile.
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The series would have had John Goodman portray a bachelor mechanic who resides in a trailer park, and would have used the standard multiple-camera setup traditionally found in sitcoms; however, the series' option was not picked up by the network.
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John Goodman voiced Hound in Transformers: Age of Extinction and returned to the character in Transformers: The Last Knight.
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On March 10,2017, John Goodman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in motion pictures, located at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard.
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In 2019, John Goodman starred in the role of Southern megachurch preacher and family patriarch Eli Gemstone on the HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones, created by and co-starring Danny McBride.
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John Goodman accepted the role right after the revived Roseanne series had been cancelled and before its spin-off The Conners was announced, which led to John Goodman doing both shows.
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In 2020, John Goodman served as the conductor narrator for the virtual train ride welcome video at the St Louis Aquarium that opened at St Louis Union Station.
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In 2023, John Goodman appeared in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, as the older Bill Randa, reprising his role from Kong: Skull Island.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, John Goodman has appeared in several recovery commercials aired in Louisiana.
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In 2010, John Goodman appeared in a commercial to raise awareness for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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John Goodman married Annabeth Hartzog, originally of Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1989.
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John Goodman is a lifelong fan of the St Louis Cardinals and narrated a 2020 MLB Network documentary about the Cardinals teams of the 1980s.
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In 2024, John Goodman narrated ads for Democratic candidate Lucas Kunce's campaign in the 2024 United States Senate election in Missouri against incumbent Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
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John Goodman has attributed the severity of the condition to past alcohol consumption and treats his depression through physical exercise.