A child model, Goodwin made her screen debut as the love interest of Elvis Presley in the 1962 film, Girls! Girls! Girls!. Between then and 1969, she appeared in only three more films and as a guest actor on several television series, the most notable of which was in the role of "Yeoman J.M. Colt" on The Cage, the first Star Trek episode. In 1971, she married Walter Wood, a business executive, and for many years they lived in New York. They now live in Palm Springs, California, where Ms. Goodwin has pursued a career in home nursing. Although she had attended a few Elvis Presley conventions over the years, it was not until 2005 that she attended her first Star Trek convention.