Date of Birth: June 20, 1952

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Goodman went to Afton Senior High School and St. Louis Community College before heading to Southwestern Missouri State University on a football scholarship. But an injury compelled him to seek out a less physical major. He chose the drama department, attending classes with such stars-to-be as Tess Harper and Kathleen Turner.

Moving to New York in 1975, he supported himself by performing in children's and dinner theatre, appearing in TV commercials, and working as a bouncer.

Goodman made his off-Broadway debut in a 1978 staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He later moved to the Broadway stage when he was cast in such plays as Loose Ends and Big River.

In films from 1983, Goodman has occasionally played villains or louts, but his likeable personality endears him to audiences even when his on-screen behavior is at its least sympathetic. He contributed topnotch supporting appearances to such films as Arachnophobia (1990) and Evan Almighty (2007), and has excelled in such starring assignments as King Ralph (1991), The Babe (1992) and The Flintstones (1994).

From 1988 to 1996, Goodman appeared as blue-collar patriarch Dan Conner on the hit TV sitcom Roseanne, a role that earned him four Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award. He also worked on the successful television movie A Streetcar Named Desire (1995), for which he earned another Emmy nomination. In 2001, he won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his work on Fox TV's sitcom Normal, Ohio.

In October 1989 he married Anna Elizabeth Hartzog. They met while Goodman was filming Everybody's All-American (1988). They have a daughter, Molly.

Filmography:

Speed Racer (2008)
Madagascar 2 (2008)
In the Electric Mist (2007)
Bee Movie (2007) (completed) (voice)
Death Sentence (2007)
Drunkboat (2007) (
Evan Almighty (2007)
Cars (2006) (voice)
Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005)
Beyond the Sea (2005) Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) (voice)
Home of Phobia (2004)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
The Jungle Book II (2003) (voice)
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Monsters, Inc. (voice) (2001)
Storytelling (2001)
My First Mister (2001)
Hitting the Wall (2000)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (voice)
Ready to Rumble (2000)
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Coyote Ugly (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
One Night at McCool's (2000)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
The Runner (1999)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) (V) (voice)
Dirty Work (1998) (uncredited)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Fallen (1998)
The Borrower, (1997)
Mother Night (1996)
Pie in the Sky (1996)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
The Flintstones (1994)
Matinee (1993)
Born Yesterday (1993)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) (voice)
The Babe (1992)
King Ralph (1991)
Barton Fink (1991)
Arachnophobia (1990)
Stella (1990)
Always (1989)
Sea of Love (1989)
Everybody's All-American (1988)
Punchline (1988)
The Wrong Guys (1988)
The Big Easy (1987)
Burglar (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
True Stories (1986)
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Maria's Lovers (1984)
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
The Survivors (1983)
Jailbait Babysitter (1978)