Toni Collette

Toni Collette was born on November 1, 1972, in Sydney, Australia. She trained at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) before achieving worldwide breakthrough acclaim at age 22 starring as the ABBA-obsessed title heroine in P. J. Hogan's 'Muriel's Wedding' (1994), winning the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress.

In 1999, her profoundly emotional performance as a desperate mother in M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller 'The Sixth Sense' earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She delivered universally beloved turns in 'About a Boy', 'The Hours', 'Little Miss Sunshine' (which won a SAG Ensemble Award), and her breathtaking tour-de-force in Ari Aster's horror masterpiece 'Hereditary' (2018).

On television, Collette won both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe for portraying a woman navigating dissociative identity disorder in Showtime's 'United States of Tara', later earning widespread acclaim for Netflix's 'Unbelievable' and HBO's 'The Staircase'.