Toni Collette

With a proven ability to transform into the characters she plays, Toni Collette has impressed audiences and the entertainment industry alike throughout the last two decades. Born and raised in Australia, Toni Collette was a student at Australia's prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts.

Collette made an indelible impression on moviegoers worldwide with her breakout performance as the title character in P.J. Hogan's Muriel's Wedding, which brought her a Golden Globe Award nomination. More recently, she won a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of a woman with multiple personalities on the television series United States of Tara, which ran for three seasons.

She was an Academy Award® nominee for her performance in M. Night Shyamalan's sleeper phenomenon The Sixth Sense, which was nominated for five other Academy Awards® including Best Picture. She subsequently starred in another Best Picture Oscar® nominee, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine, the surprise hit of 2006. Collette received Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award nominations for her performance, and shared with her fellow actors the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Collette's other film credits include Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine; Norman Jewison's telefilm Dinner with Friends; Roger Michell's Changing Lanes; Paul and Chris Weitz's About a Boy, for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination; Stephen Daldry's The Hours, for which she was a Screen Actors Guild Award nominee with her fellow actors from the ensemble; Sue Brooks' Japanese Story, opposite Gotaro Tsunashima, for which she won Best Actress honors from the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia; Curtis Hanson's In Her Shoes; Bharat Nalluri's telefilm Tsunami: The Aftermath, for which she received Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations; Alan Ball's Towelhead; Adam Elliot's animated feature Mary and Max, in voiceover alongside the late Philip Seymour Hoffman; Mental, reteaming her with Hogan; Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock; Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's The Way Way Back; Megan Griffiths' Lucky Them; Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said; Ben Falcone's Tammy, which also starred Melissa McCarthy; Peter Chelsom's Hector and the Search for Happiness; the animated feature The Boxtrolls; and Catherine Hardwicke's Miss You Already, which also starred Drew Barrymore.

Collette was a Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee and a Theatre World Award winner for her Broadway debut in George C. Wolfe and Michael John LaChiusa's musical The Wild Party. In 2014, she returned to Broadway in Will Eno's play The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold; with her fellow actors from the ensemble, Marisa Tomei, Tracy Letts and Michael C. Hall, Collette shared the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. Her additional stage credits include productions with the Belvoir Street Theatre and the Sydney Theatre Company.

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