Toni Collette

Toni Collette
Toni Collette at an Audi promotion in 2013
Born	Toni Collett (1972-11-01) 1 November 1972 (age 44) Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Alma mater	National Institute of Dramatic Art Australian Theatre for Young People
Occupation	Actress singer musician
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	Dave Galafassi (m. 2003)
Children	2

Toni Collett (born 1 November 1972), known as Toni Collette, is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish. She is a recipient of six AACTA Awards, one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.

Collette's acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in films such as Spotswood (1992) and Muriel's Wedding (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She achieved international recognition as a result of her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999) and a year later made her Tony Award-nominated Broadway debut with the leading role in the musical The Wild Party. In the 2000s, she was noted for her roles in independent features including About a Boy (2002), for which she won several critics' awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award, and Little Miss Sunshine (2006), which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as her second Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

Her other film roles include Emma (1996), Clockwatchers (1997), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Hotel Splendide (2000), Changing Lanes (2002), The Hours (2002), Connie and Carla (2004), The Night Listener (2006), Evening (2007), The Black Balloon (2008), Jesus Henry Christ (2011), Hitchcock (2012), The Way, Way Back (2013), A Long Way Down (2014), Miss You Already (2015), Imperium (2016) and xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017).