Line #5 Creator/GinniferGoodwin


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3	Jennifer Michelle Goodwin (born May 22, 1978), better known as Ginnifer Goodwin, is an American actress. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Her sister, Melissa, is a stop-motion animator for shows like ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
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5	She's a [[ShakespeareanActors Shakespearean actress]], having studied in Stratford-on-Avon with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her first television roles were on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/{{Ed}}'', before moving on to film. She played roles in films like ''Film/MonaLisaSmile'', ''Film/WinADateWithTadHamilton'', ''Film/WalkTheLine'', and ''Film/{{Birds of America}}''. She also played a leading role as Margene Heffman on the Creator/{{HBO}} series ''Series/BigLove'', ''Film/HesJustNotThatIntoYou'', ''Film/RamonaAndBeezus'', and recurring voice roles on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
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7	In 2011, Goodwin was cast as Snow White on the Creator/{{ABC}} television show ''Series/OnceUponATime''. The fall of that year, she started dating her ''Once...'' co-star [[RomanceOnTheSet and the actor playing her character's husband]], Creator/JoshDallas, and the two have a son. She also voices Judy Hopps in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' and its spin-off ''WesternAnimation/ZootopiaPlus''. Following the finale of ''Once Upon a Time'', she was cast as Beth Ann Stanton in ''Series/WhyWomenKill''. She's won multiple People's Choice Awards over her career.
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10	!!Tropes associated with Ginnifer Goodwin and her work:
11	* AwesomeDearBoy:[[invoked]] She says that she signed on to ''Series/OnceUponATime'' because it was the type of show she knew she'd be addicted to. Additionally WesternAnimation/{{Snow White\|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} was her favourite Disney Princess.
12	* BoyishShortHair: She had long hair early in her career but opted to keep it short for years, claiming she finds long hair too difficult to manage. She did however grow it out in 2018.
13	* CastingGag:[[invoked]] In both ''Film/SomethingBorrowed'' and ''Series/OnceUponATime'' she's had an affair with a married man. And the wife is blonde in both too! And the man's name starts with a D.
14	* ContractualPurity:[[invoked]] She says that "nudity is for my boyfriend or my doctor."
15	* HideYourPregnancy: [[invoked]] Twice in ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
16	** In Season 3 she wore lots of loose clothes during the Neverland arc and was shot mainly from the chest up. They wrote the pregnancy in after a mid-season TimeSkip but had to resort to the old tricks in the finale (which features time travel). It's obvious when they switch back and forth from archive footage to newer stuff, because Snow White's face is much fuller.
17	** In the second half of Season 5 the pregnancy is hidden with big coats (as Creator/EmilieDeRavin was also pregnant and hers was written in) and Snow gets written out for a few episodes.
18	* HollywoodHypeMachine: In the 2000s she got a minor push, headlining a few romantic comedies and getting plenty of magazine covers. Her films did well but she didn't do another one in between ''Film/SomethingBorrowed'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' - which is a five year gap. However, she was chosen to headline ''Series/OnceUponATime'', though she's slowed down since becoming a mother.
19	* InkSuitActor: Judy Hopps in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' looks a lot like her, despite being a bunny.
20	* PlayingAgainstType:[[invoked]] She plays Music/JohnnyCash's jealous first wife in ''Film/WalkTheLine''.
21	* PromotedFanboy: She has said that ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' was her favourite Creator/{{Disney}} film as a child. Other cast members have said just how much like Snow White she is in real life too.
22	* RomanceOnTheSet:[[invoked]] She and Creator/JoshDallas fell in love and married, just like their characters.
23	* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: As has been widely publicised, she and Creator/JenniferMorrison have frequently been mistaken for each other so many times. So they were a perfect fit to play mother and daughter in ''Series/OnceUponATime''. She also bears an uncanny resemblance to Creator/BaileeMadison, who plays her character's younger self.
24	* StageNames: Her real name is Jennifer but 'Ginnifer' is how she pronounced it with her original accent.
25	* StarMakingRole:[[invoked]] ''Series/BigLove'' for sure.
26	* TypeCasting:[[invoked]] As a wholesome GirlNextDoor type. She plays with this in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' as her Storybrooke persona is this, but Snow White is actually a LadyOfWar. ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' is something of a merger between the two, where her character is a ThePollyanna PluckyGirl.

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