John Goodman
Early Year Of Celebrities : John Goodman
Goodman was born in Affton, Missouri, to Virginia, a store clerk and waitress who worked at Jack and Phil’s Bar-B-Cue, and Leslie Goodman, a postal worker who died from a heart attack in 1954. He has a sister, Elisabeth, and a brother, Leslie. Goodman went to Affton High School and won a football scholarship at Southwest Missouri State University, now called Missouri State University. He pledged the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but was not formally initiated until several decades later. During his college stint, he decided to become an actor, leaving Missouri for New York in 1975. He performed off-Broadway, in dinner theatres and in television commercials before getting character roles in movies during the early 1980s. One of his earliest roles was Pap Finn in the Broadway musical Big River, and he can be heard on the original cast album.
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