
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Acting • Born 1943-01-04
Biography
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
22 credits
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Movie • 2017
Self - Historian

Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self

Presidents In Crisis
Movie • 2017

Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
Movie • 2014
Self

The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992

Meet the Press
TV • 1947

The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self

Abraham Lincoln
TV • 2022
Self (Commentary)

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
TV • 2014
Self - Historian

CNN Special Report
TV • 1980
Self

American Horror Story
TV • 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self

The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV • 2018
Self

Baseball
TV • 1994
Self

Baseball: The Tenth Inning
TV • 2010
Self

American Experience
TV • 1988
Self

Kevin Costner's The West
TV • 2025
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian