Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Acting 83 January 4, 1943

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of se…

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons

8.0 1989 TV Show
American Horror Story

American Horror Story

8.1 2011 TV Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.5 1962 TV Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.1 2015 TV Show
Lincoln

Lincoln

6.8 2012 Movie
The Daily Show

The Daily Show

6.4 1996 TV Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

6.9 2005 TV Show
The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report

7.0 2005 TV Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

7.3 1993 TV Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

5.4 1992 TV Show
Meet the Press

Meet the Press

4.6 1947 TV Show
American Experience

American Experience

6.5 1988 TV Show

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Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. Goodwin has written biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Kevin Costner's The West

    TV show Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian

  2. 2024
    Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove

    TV show Self

  3. 2023
    FDR

    TV show Executive Producer

  4. 2022
    Abraham Lincoln

    TV show Self (Commentary)

  5. 2020
    Washington

    TV show Executive Producer

  6. 2018
    Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

    TV show Self

  7. 2017
    Spielberg

    Movie Self

  8. 2017
    JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

    Movie Self

  9. 2017
    The Obama Years: The Power of Words

    Movie Self - Historian

  10. 2017
    Presidents In Crisis

    Movie

  11. 2015
    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    TV show Self

  12. 2014
    Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All

    Movie Self

  13. 2014
    The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

    TV show Self - Historian

  14. 2012
    Lincoln

    Movie Book

  15. 2011
    American Horror Story

    TV show Doris Kearns Goodwin

  16. 2010
    Baseball: The Tenth Inning

    TV show Self

More credits
  1. 2005
    The Colbert Report

    TV show Self

  2. 2005
    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    TV show Self

  3. 1996
    The Daily Show

    TV show Self

  4. 1994
    FDR

    Movie Self — Biographer

  5. 1994
    Baseball

    TV show Self

  6. 1993
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    TV show Self - Guest

  7. 1992
    The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

    TV show

  8. 1990
    The Kennedys of Massachusetts

    TV show Novel

  9. 1989
    The Simpsons

    TV show Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)

  10. 1988
    American Experience

    TV show Self

  11. 1980
    CNN Special Report

    TV show Self

  12. 1962
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    TV show Self

  13. 1947
    Meet the Press

    TV show

  14. —
    An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

    Movie Book