Toni Collette Biography

Biography

ultimate award in screenplay, the Academy Award. She was nominated in the 2000 Academy Awards as the Best Actress in a Supporting Role. There has been an inside story telling that she could have won the Oscar if only she did not refuse to do some armpit shaving. So far, until 2006, there hasn't been any other Oscar nomination for her. Yet, Toni keeps on performing in the silver screen, and improving.

The evidence of her existence in the screenplay is the big hit movie she involved in, the 2002 "About A Boy". Toni played as the suicidal hippy Fiona Brewer, the mother of a troubled juvenile lad, Marcus. The boy was with whom Hugh Grant's character, a womanizer in his late thirties, who has never had a job and committed to nothing, got attached to in the movie. The collaboration with Toni has made Grant put out the best in him so far. Toni herself, as it has been typically her, unveiled the serious emotional depth to both her character and to Grant's. Her intensive acting quality, again, brought her to be listed as the nominee of the 2004 BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress category with the movie itself ...

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was nominated for the Golden Globe under the category of the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy while also was listed in the Oscar's nomination list for the Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published.

In the same year, Toni was also involved in the gob-smacking hit movie "The Hours", cast in as Kitty Barlowe, one of the supporting roles. Toni had her acting ability polished even more since she was co-starring the Oscar-caliber actresses, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman. This screenplay also brought her to be nominated for the Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture category by the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The following year, 2003, has appeared to be another award nomination for Collette. Her involvement as Sandy Edwards, the main role in the movie entitled "Japanese Story", has brought her to receive the acknowledgement from the Australian Film Institute once again, this time, under the category of Best Actress in a Leading Role. Toni acted as a geologist working together with a Japanese businessman with the background of the Australian desserts landscape.

That's not all as the beauty has also collaborated with various superstars, from "Friends" TV ...