Jane Goodall

Biography

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall was best known for her 55+ year study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.

Known For

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

Horizon

All Movies (53)

• Anyone lived in a pretty how town2026 · as Narrator
• The Man Who Saves the World?2025 · as Self
• Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall2025 · as Self
• Nature : pour une réconciliation2025 · as Self
• People & Wolves: a story of coexistence2024 · as Self - Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace
• A Life Among Elephants2024 · as Self - Interviewee
• Humans and Other Animals2024 · as Elle-même
• Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope2023 · as Self
• Earth Emergency2021 · as Self
• Animal2021 · as Self
• Milked2021 · as Self
• The Last Tourist2021 · as Self - Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute
• The Center: Gibbons and Guardians2021 · as Self
• Planet Without Apes2021 · as Self
• Menschenaffen2021 · as Self
• We Are Nature2021 · as Self
• Pant Hoot2020 · as Herself
• Jane Goodall and the Guardians of Biodiversity2020 · as Self
• Corona: The Pandemic and the Pangolin2020 · as Self
• Food for Change2020 · as Self
• Jane Goodall: The Hope2020 · as Self
• Jane New Generation2020 · as Herself
• Jane, un message d'espoir2020
• Countdown to Year Zero2019
• Into the Jungle2018 · as Self
• Jane Goodall: Saving Paradise2018 · as Self
• Jane2017 · as Self
• Modified2017 · as Self
• Seed: The Untold Story2016 · as Self
• H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters2016 · as Herself
• Attenborough at 902016 · as Self
• Trio. Jane's Music of Life2015
• Time to Choose2015 · as Self
• Medicine of the Wolf2015 · as Herself
• Racing Extinction2015 · as Self
• Me...Jane2015 · as voice
• Surviving Progress2011 · as Self
• Jane's Journey2011 · as Self
• Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts2010 · as Self
• Life Is Bearable at Times...2010
• Historisk film om Dyreparken | Den levende Parken2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk2005
• Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe2004 · as Herself
• One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps2003 · as Self
• Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees2002 · as Self
• 30 Years of National Geographic Specials1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall1990 · as Self
• Chimps: So Like Us1990
• People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe1988 · as Self
• Among the Wild Chimpanzees1984 · as Self
• Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa1973 · as Narrator
• Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees1965 · as Self
• Just Me, Jane— · as Self

All TV Shows (33)

• La Revuelta2024 · as Self - Guest
• Jane2023 · as Jane Goodall
• Gutsy2022 · as Self
• Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis2021 · as Self
• Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane Goodall2021 · as Self
• Great Minds2021 · as Self
• She Walks with Apes2020
• Dear...2020 · as Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson2015 · as Self
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver2014 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• Precht2012 · as Self
• Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words2011 · as Self
• Q&A2008 · as Self - Panellist
• ZIBB2003 · as Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self
• Van de Schoonheid en de Troost2000 · as herself
• The Wild Thornberrys1998 · as Jane Goodall (voice)
• Sternstunde Philosophie1998 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Tigerenten Club1996 · as Self
• Gaia Symphony1992 · as Self
• You Rang, M'Lord?1990 · as Fighting Woman
• The Simpsons1989 · as Jane Goodall (voice)
• Natural World1983 · as Self
• Nature1982 · as Self
• 60 Minutes1968 · as Self
• National Geographic Specials1965 · as Self
• Horizon1964 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• Bambi1948 · as Self