Ginnifer Goodwin became a household name thanks to her unforgettable role as Snow White in
the TV show Once Upon a Time.
But in 2017, she decided to leave the show, and seemingly vanished overnight.
Now she's back, but fans are still wondering: what happened?
Ginnifer Goodwin met her future husband, Joshua Dallas, while filming the pilot for Once Upon
a Time in early 2011.
Dallas was married to actress Lara Pulver at the time, while Goodwin announced that
she'd broke off her engagement to actor Joey Kern in May 2011.
A source told E! News that the co-stars had a, quote, "immediate connection when they
met" but stayed just friends since one of them was married.
It reportedly wasn't until Dallas and Pulver separated in the fall of 2011 that Goodwin
and Dallas' relationship turned romantic.
But Dallas told People in April 2012 that it was love at first sight:
"It hit me like a blinding light.
I thought, 'I'm in trouble now.'"
Considering Goodwin and Dallas played star-crossed lovers Snow White and Prince Charming in Once
Upon a Time, their real-life wedding on April 12, 2014, was more than a little heartwarming.
It was also a bit of a rushed affair, as Goodwin was already pregnant with their first child.
Goodwin revealed in an interview on Live! with Kelly & Michael in March 2015:
"We thought of ourselves as exceptionally modern and we were like, 'We don't need to
get married, we'll get married later.'
And then I was nine months pregnant and I was like, 'We totally need to get married.'"
Their first child, Oliver Finlay, was born in May 2014, and two years later, in June
2016, they welcomed a second son, Hugo Wilson Dallas.
But the strain of raising two infants while working together on a major network hit became
a bit overwhelming, leading to the couple quitting the show in 2017.
Goodwin told Entertainment Weekly that the decision
"...involved a lot of discussing child rearing with our showrunners, because we really wanted
to be spending more time with the kids."
So it may be that Goodwin's departure from Hollywood was entirely her own choice!
But she has no regrets.
Goodwin told Entertainment Weekly:
"Over the run of this show, I met Prince Charming, fell in love, got married, and had two babies.
It doesn't get better than that."
After leaving her role as Snow White on Once Upon a Time in 2017, Ginnifer Goodwin embarked
upon a new adventure - the theater.
The actress dove into a role in the play Constellations at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, where
she appeared opposite Downton Abbey star Allen Leach.
Goodwin told Theatre Mania,
"I was looking for a different kind of challenge creatively than I've had in the past 10 years
- and certainly found it in this play.
I was obsessed with Constellations ... and still, having read it a million times, I don't
think I quite understood what I was getting myself into."
Though Goodwin proved herself on the small screen, she hasn't had as much luck on the
big screen.
After her part in the 2009 ensemble romantic comedy, He's Just Not That Into You, Ginnifer
Goodwin appeared to have finally arrived as a leading lady in the romcom Something Borrowed.
Unfortunately, though, it was a dud.
Since then, Hollywood seems to have shied away from offering her major roles.
And Goodwin actually seems okay with that, appearing instead on TV and in smaller, critically
acclaimed films like 2009's A Single Man.
She told The Los Angeles Times,
"I'm honestly one of those people who's just fine with being broke.
I would rather do church basement theater than so many of the film and television projects
that my agents would talk to me about."
One of Ginnifer Goodwin's most successful roles to date is voicing a crime-fighting
rabbit named Judy in Disney's 2016 smash hit Zootopia.
The animation went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office worldwide.
With that kind of money in play, it's no surprise that Disney is reportedly planning to make
two sequels.
So if you don't hear from her for awhile, it might not be that she isn't working, but
rather that she's too busy working behind the scenes to get in front of the camera.
And that's not the only work Goodwin is doing behind the camera.
After only appearing on screen twice in 2018, Goodwin made a major comeback in 2019, not
only starring in the TV movie I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story, but also executive
producing it.
It was her first producer credit, and the film was also written and directed by women.
In an interview with TV Insider, Goodwin explained that being told
"You are one of the storytellers,' behind-the-scenes as well was really significant for me"
Goodwin's 2019 success also included an appearance on the Netflix anthology series Dolly Parton's
Heartstrings, as well as an episode of Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone reboot.
Goodwin told the Los Angeles Times she found The Twilight Zone to be an exciting challenge.
"I don't feel that anybody has ever given me this much room to play, and this much range
to play."
And she finished off the year by starring in the new CBS series Why Women Kill.
It's safe to say that Goodwin is back on top of the Hollywood pyramid, and better than
ever.
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