Mamma Mia! Next season, HBO’s Big Love will be minus one Henrickson. Following her success in 2008’s “Mamma Mia!,” Amanda Seyfried, who has played Bill Paxton’s eldest child, Sarah, since the polygamist drama debuted in 2006, is embracing her Hollywood ‘It girl’ status to pursue films full-time.

“She’s been exploring her movie career for a couple of years now, and we’ve been giving her a lot of room to do that,” says Big Love creator Will Scheffer. “I know having a commitment to a show for six months definitely cuts into her ability to pursue that career.”

As a result, the series is allowing Seyfried to leave at season’s end. In the eighth episode of this season’s nine new installments, Sarah will leave the flock, Scheffer confirms. “She’s moving away.”

But before then, she’ll have plenty to do in Utah. As I previously reported, her character will be getting married in the third episode, which causes some drama involving her disappointed parents, Bill (Paxton) and Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn).

Seyfried, who got her start on the daytime soaps As The World Turns and All My Children, has been hotly pursued by film producers ever since winning the role of Meryl Streep’s daughter in “Mamma Mia!” This year, she starred with Megan Fox in Diablo Cody’s “Jennifer’s Body,” and had the title role in the Liam Neeson/Julianne Moore drama, “Chloe.” Upcoming starring roles include Lasse Hallstrom’s “Dear John,” “Letters to Juliet” with Gael Garcia Bernal and “A Woman of No Importance,” based on Oscar Wilde’s play.

Big Love’s fourth season premieres on HBO January 10. (Source)

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