Goodall was chosen by Steven Spielberg to star in his 1991 film "Hook". She went on to star as the villainess Kristel in the film "Cliffhanger" (1993), as Emilie Schindler in "Schindler's List" (1993), and opposite Michael Douglas in Barry Levinson's "Disclosure" (1994). In Australia, she co-starred with Russell Crowe in "The Silver Brumby" in 1993, and was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1995 film "Hotel Sorrento". She had previously been nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress in a TV film or miniseries for the 1989 miniseries "Cassidy". In 1996, she starred with Pauline Quirke in the BBC miniseries "The Sculptress". In 1998, she was nominated for a Logie Award for Best Actress for "A Difficult Woman", which also won best TV mini series at the New York Festival in 1998. She starred opposite Jeff Bridges in Ridley Scott's "White Squall" (1996); as Helen Thermopolis in Garry Marshall's wildly successful The "Princess Diaries" (2001), "" (2004) and opposite Bruce Willis and Henry Cavill in "The Cold Light Of Day" (2012). European credits include starring in Urs Egger's "Opernball" (1998) "The Thief Lord" (2006), and Denis De La Patelliere's "Épées Des Diamants". She appeared in Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac Vol. II" (2013) and won a RIFF Best Actress Award for her role in Massimo Cogliatore's two-hander thriller "The Elevator" (2014). In 2015, she played Elsbeth Beaumont in Jocelyn Moorhouse's multi-award-winning film "The Dressmaker", with Kate Winslet and Judy Davis.