October 14, 2003

Before I ask you to click through to the column, which we’re posting on MCN because it’s about the Oscars, I have two words for you…

Ginnifer.

Goodwin.

She’s now made two movies. And she’s going to make a lot more. Like all movie stars, she is unique, itching to fit in a category, yet somehow beyond categorization. She’s 5 foot 6 inches tall and seems to fit the characterization that dogged Brittany Murphy before she became an anorexic sex nymph. But again, Goodwin is up to something else altogether. She can be the funny sidekick, but give her a scene and she holds that screen as well as anyone.

This is, oddly, Ginnifer Goodwin’s week. On Monday night, she got to see herself in her first ever film, Mona Lisa Smile for the first time. On Wednesday, she will be part of a shockingly aggressive effort by DreamWorks to launch Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!, their 2004 romantic comedy, as the studio gathers media to focus on the film at a party in Westwood.

She was born in Memphis, studied at Boston University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and hasn’t stopped working since she got to L.A., starting on the NBC series, Ed.

Ignore this tip at your own risk.

Now, go read the Oscar piece at MCN.