Caroline Goodall - Biography

Blonde British stage actress who began to garner attention in important supporting roles in mainstream Hollywood fare in the early 1990s. An experienced stage actress, Goodall performed with the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre both in her native land and on international tours in plays ranging from contemporary comedies to the Bard's tragedies. Several TV appearances and a small role in a middling Tom Hanks sudser, "Every Time We Say Goodbye" (1986) did little to open up a feature career, but several years later Goodall gave a lovely glow to the role of the adult Peter Pan's wife in Steven Spielberg's fantasy "Hook" (1991). Spielberg used the actress again in his epic of the Holocaust, "Schindler's List" (1993) as the eponymous hero's wife, and she also played a sizable role in "Cliffhanger" (1993) as an airplane pilot in cahoots with the villainous John Lithgow. Goodall went on to play the physician wife of the skipper of a floating school in "White Squall" (1996).