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Name : | Toni Collette | Birth Name : | Antonia Collette | Profession : | Actress | Date of Birth : | November 1, 1972 | Place of Birth : | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Height : | 5' 6" | Claim to fame : | Won AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for Australian black comedy Muriel's Wedding (1994). |
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A tall, vivacious Australian actress with a chameleonic ability to alter her appearance as the role dictates, Toni Collette shot to international fame at age 22 as the overweight but determined bride-to-be in P J Hogan's blackly comic "Muriel's Wedding" (1994). Raised in Blacktown, a suburb of Sydney, this eldest of three first performed onstage as a teenager in a production of "Godspell.” By age 16, she had left home to work with the Australian Theatre for Young People before enrolling at the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art....
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