Toni Collette (born Collett) is an Australian actress. She is best known for Shaft, About a Boy, Mary and Max, Tammy, The Boxtrolls, XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Hereditary, Velvet Buzzsaw, Knives Out, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, Juror #2, Mickey 17, United States of Tara, Hostages, The Staircase, The Power, and Wayward.
For Disney, she has mainly appeared in subsidiary productions. For Hollywood Pictures, she played Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense, and for Touchstone Pictures, she played Jane Brewster in Fright Night, and Emily French in The Last Shot. For Miramax Films, she voiced Princess Yum Yum's Nanny and the Witch in Arabian Knight (also known as The Thief and the Cobbler), she played Julie in Cosi, Cynthia in The Pallbearer, Harriet Smith in Emma, Mandy Slade in Velvet Goldmine, Kitty in The Hours, Mary in Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger, and Donna Logand in The Night Listener.
For 20th Century Studios (formally 20th Century Fox), she played Wendy Robinson in Spotswood (her feature film debut), Meg Bluegum in The Magic Pudding, Rose Feller in In Her Shoes, and Zeena Krumbein in Nightmare Alley. For Searchlight Pictures (formally Fox Searchlight Pictures), she played Sheryl Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine, Peggy Robertson in Hitchcock, Pam in The Way, Way Back, and Sarah in Enough Said.
Roles
Trivia
- Her family name was originally "Collette", but her grandfather removed the last 'e' for unknown reasons, resulting her birth name being "Collett". Upon becoming an actress, she returned the 'e' at the end because it looked better.
