John Goodman - Biography

Last Editor: penconno				John Goodman Biography -   Name : John Goodman Profession : Actor Birth Details : born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri Birth name : John Stephen Goodman Height : 6' 2" (1.88 m) Personal quotes : "We'll shoot in Los Angeles, on the same lot where we shot Roseanne. It'll be difficult because I live in New Orleans. But I really enjoy doing si Salary : "Normal, Ohio" (2000) $4,400,000 (first season) Spouse : Annabeth Hartzog (October 1989 - present) 1 child Trade mark : Late 1990s - Occasionally impersonated Linda Tripp on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Frequently plays the

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Is one of the favorite hosts on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) hosting the show 11 times and making numerous surprise appearences starting from the 1989- 1990 season to the present. His daughter's name is Molly. His first job was as a bouncer. Graduated from Southwest Missouri State, with a drama degree Went to Affton High School in Affton, Missouri. His first TV appearance was for a Burger King commercial where he had no lines. He only had to bite into a Whopper sandwich with glee. He was in the original Broadway cast of the 1985 musical, "Big River". The musical is based on The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. He played Pap Finn and can be heard on the cast recording singing "Guv'ment". He was regarded as being so crucial to the feature film version of The Flintstones (1994) that the project would have been shelved if he had turned down the role of Fred. Has played both the King of England (in King Ralph (1991)) and the President of the United States (in certain episodes of "The West Wing" (1999)). Dan Conner, Goodman's character on "Roseanne" (1988), was ranked #13 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue]. Resides in New Orleans, Louisiana Appeared in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Alec Baldwin. Baldwin, who played the role originated by Marlon Brando, has played 'Robert DeNiro' on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). Goodman has played Brando on "Saturday Night Live". Moved to New York City shortly after college, and lived in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. One of the jobs he held down as a struggling actor was a waiter. Shares his birthday with Indian writer Vikram Seth ("A Suitable Boy"). Ordered by his doctors to lose a lot of weight in 2005. He referred to this as his biggest challenge since quitting smoking in 2003. Was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon national fraternity (Missouri Eta chapter - Southwest Missouri State University.) Bought his home in New Orleans, Louisiana, from Trent Reznor, the brain behind the rock band Nine Inch Nails. First guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) when the show premiered 13 September 1993

John Goodman Detailed Biography -

John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952 in Affton, Missouri) is an American actor. Goodman won an athletics scholarship to play football at Southwest Missouri State University as a teenager, but subsequently decided to become an actor, leaving Missouri for New York in 1975. He then appeared on stage off-Broadway, in dinner theatres and on TV advertisements before playing character parts in movies in the early 1980s. Goodman is best known for comic roles, including Roseanne Barr's husband in the TV sitcom Roseanne, the voice of Sulley in Monsters, Inc., and Fred Flintstone in the movie The Flintstones. He has appeared in many roles in movies by The Coen Brothers. Goodman is frequently cast as blue-collar characters or as the best friend of the lead character, for example in Sea of Love, as Al Pacino's police partner, The Big Lebowski, as the disgruntled Vietnam vet Walter, and Fallen, as police partner to Denzel Washington. Standing 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and weighing nearly 400 lb (180 kg), Goodman had to lose weight in order to play Babe Ruth in the 1992 movie The Babe. In 2000, Goodman had his own short-lived sitcom called Normal, Ohio, in which he played an atypical gay man who returns to his small hometown to start a new life. Although the show projected a positive message for homosexuals, viewers did not respond well and critics panned the show. In 2004, he starred alongside Jean Smart in the CBS sitcom Center of the Universe; it, too, was critically panned and quickly cancelled. Goodman has also been a popular guest host a number of times on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Goodman also has a recurring role on The West Wing, as fictional former House Speaker Glen Allen Walken, briefly becoming President when President of the United States Josiah Bartlet yielded power temporarily under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. He also played someone who unexpectedly became a head of state in the film King Ralph, after the ruling family of the United Kingdom dies in a freak electrical accident.