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.

Career Overview

Jane Goodall has 75 screen credits in a career dating back to 1948. Signature works include Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall, Jane, Jane's Journey. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

female

Known Credits

75

Birth Date

1934-04-03 00:00:00

Birth Place

Hampstead, London, England, UK

Known For

• 

  Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall
• 

  Jane
• 

  Jane's Journey
• 

  Jane Goodall: An Inside Look
• 

  Anyone lived in a pretty how town
• 

  People & Wolves: a story of coexistence

Frequent Collaborators

• Brett Morgen (4 collaborations)
• Hugo van Lawick (3 collaborations)
• Brad Falchuk (2 collaborations)
• Will Znidaric (2 collaborations)
• Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick (2 collaborations)
• Angelina Jolie (2 collaborations)
• Lorenz Knauer (2 collaborations)
• Victor DeRespinis (2 collaborations)
• James Connelly (1 collaborations)
• Jenna Lockman (1 collaborations)

Credits

• production (3 credits)

  • Howl

    executive producer

    production
    2026
  • Howl

    producer

    production
    2026
  • Untitled Jane Goodall Film

    producer

    production
    2026

• actors (70 credits)

  • Just Me, Jane

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Jane Goodall: An Inside Look

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Anyone lived in a pretty how town

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • The Man Who Saves the World?

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Nature : pour une réconciliation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • People & Wolves: a story of coexistence

    Self - Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • A Life Among Elephants

    Self - Interviewee

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Humans and Other Animals

    Elle-même

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Earth Emergency

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Animal

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Milked

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • The Last Tourist

    Self - Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • The Center: Gibbons and Guardians

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Planet Without Apes

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Menschenaffen

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • We Are Nature

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Pant Hoot

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Jane Goodall and the Guardians of Biodiversity

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Corona: The Pandemic and the Pangolin

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Food for Change

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Jane Goodall: The Hope

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Jane New Generation

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Jane, un message d'espoir

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Countdown to Year Zero

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show

    - Kate Mara, Dr. Jane Goodall, Ava Louise Murchison (2023) ... Self actor actors
    2019
  • Into the Jungle

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Jane Goodall: Saving Paradise

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Jane

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Modified

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Seed: The Untold Story

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • H.O.P.E.: What You Eat Matters

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Attenborough at 90

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Trio. Jane's Music of Life

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Time to Choose

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Medicine of the Wolf

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Racing Extinction

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Me...Jane

    voice

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    - Bill Gates, Jane Goodall (2024) ... Self actor actors
    2015
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    - Steve Martin and Martin Short, Margaret Qualley, Dr. Jane Goodall, Cynthia Erivo (2021) ... Self - Guest actor actors

    - At Home Edition: LL Cool J, Dr. Jane Goodall, Kate Tempest (2020) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    2014
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    - Sugar (2014) ... Self actor actors
    2014
  • Surviving Progress

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Jane's Journey

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Jane Goodall - Beauty and the Beasts

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Life Is Bearable at Times...

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Q&A

    - Australian values, Apes and Irrationality (2017) ... Self - Panellist actor actors
    2008
  • Historisk film om Dyreparken | Den levende Parken

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Jane Goodall's When Animals Talk

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Jane Goodall's Return to Gombe

    Herself

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • ZIBB

    - Episode 108 (2015) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Real Time with Bill Maher

    - Episode 365 (2015) ... Self actor actors
    2003
  • Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • The Wild Thornberrys

    - The Trouble With Darwin (2001) ... Jane Goodall (voice) actor actors
    1998
  • The Daily Show

    - September 28, 2020 - Jane Goodall (2020) ... Self actor actors
    1996
  • 30 Years of National Geographic Specials

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Chimps: So Like Us

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The Simpsons

    - Gorillas on the Mast (2019) ... Jane Goodall (voice) actor actors
    1989
  • People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Among the Wild Chimpanzees

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Natural World

    - Among The Wild Chimpanzees (1984) ... Self actor actors
    1983
  • Nature

    - Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (1996) ... Self actor actors
    1982
  • Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • 60 Minutes

    - Wildebeest Migration, Elephant Dictionary, Jane Goodall (2012) ... Self actor actors
    1968
  • Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Horizon

    - The Demonic Ape (2004) ... Self actor actors
    1964
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    - Episode 1 (1984) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 244 (1971) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 213 (1971) ... Self actor actors
    1962
  • Bambi

    - Episode 1 (2010) ... Self actor actors
    1948

• writing (2 credits)

  • Jane

    other

    writing
    2017
  • People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe

    writer

    writing
    1988