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.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1976
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2018
The Simpsons
2016
The Daily Show
2005
American Horror Story
2016
The Colbert Report
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2013
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2005
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2008
American Experience
1991
Meet the Press
2006
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2024

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
26
Writing
4
Producing
4
2025
Kevin Costner's The West
as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
2025
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
as Self
2024
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self
2022
Abraham Lincoln
as Self (Commentary)
2021
CNN Special Report
as Self
2021
Meet the Press
as Self - Panelist
2018
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2017
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
as Self - Historian
2017
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Presidents In Crisis
2017
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
as Self
2016
American Horror Story
as Doris Kearns Goodwin
2016
The Simpsons
as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
2014
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
as Self
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Self - Historian
2013
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Self
2008
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2006
Meet the Press
2006
The Colbert Report
as Self
2005
The Daily Show
as Self
2005
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1994
Baseball
as Self
1994
FDR
as Self — Biographer
1991
American Experience
as Self
1976
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self