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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 4, 1943
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
0.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.8
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
Kevin Costner's The West
2025
7.7
Self (Commentary)
Abraham Lincoln
2022
7.5
Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
7.6
Self
Spielberg
2017
10.0
Self - Historian
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
2017
0.0
Presidents In Crisis
2017
6.2
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
0.0
Self
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
2014
7.7
Self - Historian
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
8.1
Doris Kearns Goodwin
American Horror Story
2011
Credits
Kevin Costner's The West
as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian
2025
7.8
Abraham Lincoln
as Self (Commentary)
2022
7.7
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self
2018
7.5
Spielberg
as Self
2017
7.6
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
as Self - Historian
2017
10.0
Presidents In Crisis
2017
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 Campaign That Changed It All
as Self
2014
0.0
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
as Self - Historian
2014
7.7
American Horror Story
as Doris Kearns Goodwin
2011
8.1
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
as Self
2010
10.0
The Colbert Report
as Self
2005
6.9
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Baseball
as Self
1994
7.4
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
The Simpsons
as Doris Kearns Goodwin (voice)
1989
8.0
American Experience
as Self
1988
6.9
CNN Special Report
as Self
1980
6.7
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Meet the Press
1947
4.3