Toni Collette, actriz australiana

Toni Collette, con el nombre de Antonia Collette, (nacida el 1 de noviembre de 1972, Sydney, Nueva Gales del Sur, Australia), actriz australiana conocida por sus interpretaciones metamórficas en una amplia gama de roles.

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Collette fue criada en el suburbio de Blacktown en Sydney. A los 16 años aceptó una beca del Teatro Australiano para Jóvenes (1989), y más tarde asistió brevemente al Instituto Nacional de Arte Dramático. Se retiró para aceptar su primer papel en el cine, en Spotswood (1992), junto a Anthony Hopkins y Russell Crowe. Hizo su primera incursión significativa en el teatro como Sonya en la producción de la Compañía de Teatro de Sydney del tío Vanya (1992) de Anton Chekhov.

Le siguió su giro como el personaje del título con sobrepeso e infeliz en Muriel's Wedding (1994) atrajo a Collette a la atención internacional, y una serie de papeles secundarios en películas, como Emma (1996), Clockwatchers (1997) y Velvet Goldmine (1998), siguieron. Su actuación en The Sixth Sense (1999), en la que mostró la angustia de una madre cuyo hijo puede ver fantasmas, le valió una nominación al Oscar a la mejor actriz de reparto. Recibió una nominación al Premio Tony por The Wild Party (2000), su debut en Broadway. Aunque ocasionalmente relegado a papeles unidimensionales en thrillers como Shaft (2000) y Changing Lanes (2002), Collette ganó elogios por la seriedad que trajo a los personajes secundarios en About a Boy (2002) y The Hours (2002).

Her musical talents were brought to the fore in Connie and Carla (2004), a comedy in which she played a woman hiding from the mob by impersonating a male drag performer. Though that film was panned, Collette eked positive notices for the ostensibly slight In Her Shoes (2005), in which she was featured as the dowdy sister to Cameron Diaz’s promiscuous wastrel. Her role in the ensemble comedy Little Miss Sunshine (2006), in which she played the matriarch of a dysfunctional clan attempting to shepherd its youngest member to a beauty pageant, earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for best supporting actress. She earned another Golden Globe nomination and an Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actress in a television movie for Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006). Collette took supporting roles in the dramas Evening (2007) and Towelhead (2007) and the horror film Fright Night (2011). She then starred in the offbeat Australian comedy Mental (2012) before playing Alfred Hitchcock’s personal assistant in the biographical Hitchcock (2012).

In 2013 Collette appeared in The Way, Way Back, a humorous coming-of-age story, and the romantic comedy Enough Said. The next year she took a supporting role in the farcical Tammy and joined the ensemble casts of the drama A Long Way Down, the sentimental adventure Hector and the Search for Happiness, and the animated romp The Boxtrolls. Colette then starred as the cancer-stricken best friend of Drew Barrymore’s character in the sentimental drama Miss You Already (2015) and as the mother of a family threatened by a demon during the holidays in the horror comedy Krampus (2015). She appeared in several low-rated films throughout 2017, but her movies from 2018, which included the horror flick Hereditary and the feel-good drama Hearts Beat Loud, garnered more-favourable reviews. Collette was then cast in Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), a horror parody wherein artworks seemingly exact revenge on those who profited from a deceased painter’s oeuvre. In 2019 she also appeared in Knives Out, a comedic whodunit involving the death of a mystery writer.

Collette also worked in television. She mined the fraught territory of mental illness for laughs in the darkly comic series United States of Tara (2009–11). Her role as the central character, a Midwestern mother suffering from dissociative identity disorder, demanded that Collette evoke an ever-shifting array of personalities. Though the antics of her character’s “alters” often resulted in amusing situations, Collette managed to consistently reveal the pathos beneath the slapstick. She received for her efforts the Emmy Award (2009) and the Golden Globe (2010) for best actress in a comedy series. In 2013 she returned to television with the drama series Hostages, in which she played a doctor whose family will be killed unless she assassinates the president of the United States. The show ended after one season, and Collette was cast in 2018 as a wife navigating an open marriage in Wanderlust. She appeared as a detective investigating a series of rapes in the limited series Unbelievable (2019).