Doris Kearns Goodwin
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.
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Acting History
2025
Kevin Costner's The West as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
2022Abraham Lincoln as Self (Commentary)
2018Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
2017Spielberg as Self
2017The Obama Years: The Power of Words as Self - Historian
2017Presidents In Crisis
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2014Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All as Self
2014The Roosevelts: An Intimate History as Self - Historian
2011American Horror Story as Doris Kearns Goodwin
2010Baseball: The Tenth Inning as Self
2005The Colbert Report as Self
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
1996The Daily Show as Self
1994Baseball as Self
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1989The Simpsons as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
1988American Experience as Self
1980CNN Special Report as Self
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1947Meet the Press