Toni Collette is an Australian actress and musician well known for her work across many factors of entertainment like television, movies as well as a musician for her band Toni Collette & the Finish. Although she made her introduction in comedy movies like Spotswood (1992) and Muriel’s Wedding (1994), international attention came her way only in 1999 after she acted in M. Night Shyamalan’s horror movie Sixth Sense and was nominated for an Academy Award for the performance. Following this, Collette acted in a Broadway show The Wild Party which won her a nomination in the Tony Awards.

Five-time winner of the Australian Film Institute award, her other well-known works include independent film About a Boy (2002) for which she was nominated for a BAFTA, In Her Shoes (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), The Night Listener (2006), Fright Night (2011), and Enough Said among various others before she was cast in Hereditary (2018). She also branched out to television acting A Country Practice (1990), Dinner With Friends (2001), Tsunami- The Aftermath (2006), and the United States Of Tara (2009), which further established her place in the industry.

Toni Collette Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Antonia Collett
Nick Name	Toni Collette
Age	(as in 2023) 51 Years
Religion	Buddhism
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Scorpio
Birth Place	Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Birth	01 November 1972
Nationality	Australian
Residence	Sydney, Australia Ireland
Home Town	Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Hobbies	Not Available
Family
Mother’s Name	Judith Collett (Customer-Service Representative)
Father’s Name	Bob Collett (Truck Driver)
Brother	Ben Collette Christopher Collette
Sister	None
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1998-1999)
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Dave Galafassi
Marriage Date	11 January 2003
Children	Daughter- Sage Florence (b. January 9, 2008) Son- Arlo Robert (b. April 22, 2011)
Education
School	Blacktown Girls’ High School National Institute of Dramatic Art
College/University	Not Available
Educational Qualification	Not Available
Profession	Actress, Musician, Producer, Author
Brands Endorsed	Not Available
Career Manager	• United Management (Talent Management Company), New South Wales, Australia • Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (Talent Agent Voice/Commercial), Los Angeles, California, USA • FINLEY Management (Manager), New York, USA • Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein (Legal Representative), Los Angeles, California, USA
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 173cm in meters- 1.73 m in feet inches- 5’8”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 59 kg in pounds- 130 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	35 Inches
Hips Size	35 Inches
Waist Size	26 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Green
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Available
Shoe Size	Not Available
Favorite Things
Favorite Movies	Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Sound of Music, Breaking the Waves, and Terms of Endearment
Favorite Restaurant	Tertulia in the West Village
Favorite Vacation Spot	Blancaneaux Lodge in Belize
Controversies	None

Life Journey

Toni Collett was born on 1 November 1972, in Sydney, the eldest of three children. Her father, Bob Collett, was a truck driver while her mother, Judy (née Cook), was a consumer service spokesperson. She performed on SBS TV’s Who Do You Think You Are? in August 2015 for “Season 7 Episode 2: Toni Collette,” to find out more about her grandparents.

Bob was probably born as a result of his mother Norma (née McWhinney) having an extra-marital affair with a US Navy Chief Petty Officer assigned in Australia during, and after, World War II. Norma and her husband (Harold “Stanley” Collett) was going through a separation, and Bob’s DNA test determined that Stanley was not his biological father. Despite a public attraction in August 2015, her biological grandfather’s name is not known.

She has expressed her family as, “the most communicative” but that despite her parents’ shortage of money, they made them feel cared for and they were supportive. She has fond memories of growing up in Blacktown where she entered Judy on Saturday afternoons watching movie matinees, sponsored by Bill Collins. She explained to her younger self as having “crazy” amounts of confidence.

When she was 11 she thought she had appendicitis and convinced doctors, she was taken to an emergency department and had the appendix eliminated. As a student at Blacktown Girls High School, her favorite activities included netball, tap-dancing, and swimming. She took part in local singing competitions. Her goal was to perform in musicals as she liked to sing and dance.

Her first acting role was a high school play of Godspell at 14 years old, which she auditioned for by singing Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You”. She chose to become an actor in the following year and was influenced by Geoffrey Rush’s stage appearance in The Diary of a Madman. At age 16, with her parents’ permission, she shifted to the Australian Theatre for Young People in 1989 and later revealed, “I was 16.

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And it’s not like I wasn’t good at school, or I didn’t enjoy it, I did. I just loved acting more. I don’t regret that decision, but I can’t believe I made it.” The actor turned an extra “e” at the end of her surname, which Stanley Collett had removed, as it seemed better for a stage name. She began at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in early 1991; but left after 18 months to perform as Sonya in Uncle Vanya, directed by Neil Armfield, besides Rush in the title character.

Toni Collette Net Worth

Toni Collette has a net worth of $20 million.

Accidents & Personal Life

In her twenties, she found it difficult to adapt to being in the media spotlight, and, as a result, struggled with bulimia and panic attacks. During this time she toured widely, shaved her head five times, and bought a flat in Brixton, London. She intended to “explore different views and just look at life and try to understand it.” She left the Brixton flat after a few months because she saw a man “getting his head bashed in with a pole 30 meters away.”

Collette had dated her Velvet Goldmine co-star, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for about a year (ca. 1997) before ending their relationship and described it as “hedonistic, drunken and probably dangerous.” When asked about her faith, she remarked, “We’re all spiritual, I’m not Buddhist but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organized religions, and the most compassionate. It’s an ongoing journey.”

She met musician Dave Galafassi early in 2002, at a CD launch for his then-band Gelbison, the couple married in a traditional Buddhist ceremony on 11 January 2003. The couple has a daughter, Sage Florence, born on 9 January 2008, and a son, Arlo Robert, born on 22 April 2011. She has said that she is an avid camper and she enjoys meditating.

They lived in Sydney in the 2000s before moving to Los Angeles. The family returned to Sydney after about ten years in 2019. In December of that year Galafassi “had a devastating motorbike accident”; Collette thanked the ambulance services, “for your swiftness, clarity, knowledge, compassion, and dedication. You saved him and we cannot thank you enough.”

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Toni Collette Movies And TV Shows

• At the age of eleven, she showed her phenomenal acting skills when she faked appendicitis out of boredom and longing for attention; her act was so convincing that doctors had to remove her appendix, even though the test showed nothing was wrong with it.
• At 16, she left school and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA). At that time, she was a struggling actress, supporting herself by delivering pizzas. After 18 months of studies, she left NIDA for her feature film debut as “Wendy Robinson”, opposite Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins, in The Efficiency Expert (1992), and gained herself a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the Australian Film Institute.
• Collette made her stage appearance with the Sydney Theatre Company, as “Sonya” in Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”, a performance that won her a critic’s circle award as Best Newcomer.
• She also performed in stage productions at the Belvoir Street Theatre, under the directorship of Geoffrey Rush.
• In 1994, she got the Australian Best Actress in a Lead Character for her work in Muriel’s Wedding (1994), for which she had to increase 40 pounds in seven weeks.
• In 1995, Toni Collette came to Hollywood with a supporting character in The Pallbearer (1996), then had a series of supporting characters.
• Her first lead as “Diana Spencer”, an Australian woman who shares the name and birthday of Princess Diana, in the comedy, Diana & Me (1997), was obscured by the real Diana’s death, which practically occurred at the same time when the movie was released.
• Her breakthrough came with the role of “Lynn Sear” in The Sixth Sense (1999), for which she quite rightly won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
• Her latest memorable role as “Sheryl”, a beaten-down but loving mother, in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), is also a fine group work with Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, and Alan Arkin.
• Since 2003, Toni Collette has been married to musician Dave Galafassi, with whom she recorded her singing and songwriting debut album, titled “Beautiful Awkward Pictures”, in 2006.
• She co-owns an independent production company in Australia and also continues her music career as a singer. Toni lives with her husband in Sydney, Australia, and owns a second home in Ireland.

Facts

1. Her acting skills were recognized when she forged the percent appendicitis to get attention because she was bored. She was so good at it that their doctors expelled her appendix even though there was nothing wrong with it.
2. Growing up, she was a tomboy and performed a nurturing character in the family’s cats, birds, dogs, and rabbits.
3. She left school at the age of 16 to seek an acting career.
4. She is the 1st born in a family of 3.
5. To support herself when starting her acting career, she delivered pizza.
6. She co-owns a production company in Australia.
7. She has a home in Sydney Australia and Ireland.
8. Toni is in the restaurant business and owns the Fat Collette Burger chain in Canberra.
9. She has a football team, the Sydney Angels.
10. She has a brand of vodka, a top-selling perfume, and a fashion line.
11. Toni developed bulimia after gaining weight rapidly for a role in Muriel’s Wedding.
12. She also had to gain 25 pounds for her character in the movie In Her Shoes.
13. She underwent from panic attacks for 8 months after breaking up with her boyfriend Jonathan.
14. Toni does not subscribe to Hollywood’s fascination with skinny beautiful women.
15. She was born Collett without an ‘e’ at the end, but she later adopted it for her stage name.
    Acting saved her from imploding.
16. She feels that the roles she plays have a parallel to her life.
17. She considers herself spiritual and is drawn to Buddhism because it is the most beneficial, compassionate, and organized religion.
18. Toni does not accept compliments easily.
19. She does not run her life according to an action plan. According to her, true happiness comes from living freely so why clutter your mind with planning, worrying, and chaos.
20. Her performance in the movie The Wild Party earned her a Tony award in 2000.
21. Tony and Dave (her spouse) enjoy camping.
22. In 2007, she joined the Cannes Film Festival as a jury member.
23. In 2009, when her daughter was only 9 months old, she had to go back to work for the film Mary and Max.
24. She finished filming the United States of Tara when she was 5 months pregnant with her son Arlo. She had to go back to work when he was 3 months to begin shooting Mental.
25. Toni has appeared in 3 films; The Sixth Sense in 1999, The Hours in 2002, and Little Miss Sunshine in 2006, that were nominated for Oscar for the “Best Picture.”
26. She had to learn sign language for the movie the Black Balloon.
27. She considers herself an actor, not a movie star.
28. To calm down, she likes to walk on the beach.
29. She has gained several awards and has been nominated for numerous awards including Australian Film Institute Awards, Oscars, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, among others.

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Kiefer Sutherland is a talented actor with a wide variety of roles in his collection. Born to acting parents, Shirley Douglas and the legendary Donald Sutherland, he too decided to be an actor. He started playing minor roles in coming of age movies such as ‘Max Dugan Returns’, ‘The Bad Boy’, ‘Stand by Me’ and ‘The Lost Boys’. With supporting roles in ‘Young Guns’ and ‘Flatliners’, he began getting noticed. Movies such as ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’, ‘A Few Good Men’, ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘Eye for an Eye’, ‘ A Time to Kill’ ‘Dark City’, and ‘Phone Booth’ saw him perform supporting or minor characters, with differing success.

Switching to working in television, he grew agent Jack Bauer in the series ‘24’. He received many accolades for this role over 8 seasons and was repeatedly nominated for the Golden Globes and Emmys, year after year. He also became one of the administrative producers of the serial. He has got a Golden Globe and a couple of Emmys for the series. He has been given a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame too.

Kiefer Sutherland Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
Nick Name	Kiefer Sutherland
Age	(as in 2023) 57 Years
Religion	He was probably raised Catholic (as he went to Catholic schools and has a tattoo of Virgin Mary on his arm).
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Sagittarius
Birth Place	Paddington, London, England, UK
Date of Birth	21 December 1966
Nationality	British
Residence	Silver Lake district of Los Angeles
Home Town	Paddington, London, England, UK
Hobbies	Not Available
Family
Mother’s Name	Shirley Douglas (Actress)
Father’s Name	Donald Sutherland (Actor)
Brother	• Rossif Sutherland (Paternal Younger Half-Brother) (Actor) • Angus Sutherland (Paternal Younger Half-Brother) (Film and TV Producer, Actor) • Roeg Sutherland (Paternal Younger Half-Brother) • Thomas Emil Sicks (Maternal Half-Brother)
Sister	Rachel Sutherland (Twin Sister) (TV Producer)
Others	Tommy Douglas (Maternal Grandfather) (Politician)
Girlfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Girlfriends	• Jaid Barrymore • Sherilyn Fenn • Camelia Kath (1986-1990) • Julia Roberts (1989-1991) • Amanda Rice (1991) • Lisa Stothard (1992) • Kelly Winn (1995-2008) • Bo Derek (2000) • Catherine Bisson (2001-2005) • Reiko Aylesworth (2003-2005) • Tricia Cardozo (2005-2006) • Ashley Scott (2008) • Siobhan Bonnouvrier (2009-2011)
Marital Status, Wife and Children
Wife/Spouse	• Kelly Winn • Camelia Kath
Marriage Date	• Married on 29 June 1996 and divorced on 19 May 2004 (Kelly Winn) • Married on 12 September 1987 and divorced on 1 February 1990 (Camelia Kath)
Children	Son- None Daughter- Sarah Sutherland
Education
School	• Crescent Town Elementary School • St. Clair Junior High East York • John G. Althouse Middle School, Toronto, Canada
College/University	• St. Andrew’s College • Martingrove Collegiate Institute • Harbord Collegiate Institute • Silverthorn Collegiate Institute • Malvern Collegiate Institute • Annex Village Campus • For a semester, he was also present at Regina Mundi Catholic College in London, Ontario. • For learning acting, he enrolled himself at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School and went there during the weekends.
Educational Qualification	Graduated
Profession	Actor, film director, film producer, singer
Brands Endorsed	print ads for • The GAP (2002) • Baume & Mercier watches (2006) TV commercials for • MGD (voiceover) (2003), MCI (voiceover) (2003) • The Los Angeles Mentoring Partnership (2005) • Peugeot – Citroen (2005) • Apple Computers (voiceover) (2006) • Verizon Business (voiceover) (2006) • Ford Fusion car (voiceover) (2006) • Ford Motors Canada (2007) • Cuervo tequila (2014)
Career Manager	• Management 360 • William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 175 cm in meters- 1.75 m in feet inches- 5’9”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 76 kg in pounds- 168 lbs
Figure Measurements
Chest Size	41 Inches
Biceps Size	14 Inches
Waist Size	35 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	White
Hair Color	Light Brown
Eye Color	Blue
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Available
Shoe Size	11 (US)
Favorite Things
Favorite Food	Seafood, Chinese food, Indian food
Favorite Painter	Paul Gauguin
Favorite Guitars	Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, John Mayer
Favorite Actor	Donald Sutherland
Favorite Film of his dad Donald	Don’t Look Now (1973)
His Own Favorite Film	Stand By Me (1986)

Life Journey

Kiefer Sutherland was born in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, to Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas, both prosperous Canadian actors who had been residing and serving in England for some time. He has a twin sister, Rachel, who works as a post-production film supervisor.

His maternal grandfather was Scottish-born Canadian politician and former Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, who is generally recognized for bringing universal health care to Canada.

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Sutherland is called after American-born writer and director Warren Kiefer, who directed Donald Sutherland in his first fiction movie, Castle of the Living Dead. Sutherland’s family went to Corona, California, in 1968. His parents separated in 1970.

In 1975, Sutherland relocated with his mother to Toronto, Ontario. He joined the elementary school at Crescent Town Elementary School, St. Clair Junior High (now Gordon A. Brown Middle School) East York, and John G. Althouse Middle School in Toronto.

He attended several high schools, including St. Andrew’s College, Martingrove Collegiate Institute, Harbord Collegiate Institute, Silverthorn Collegiate Institute, Malvern Collegiate Institute, and Annex Village Campus. He also gave a semester at Regina Mundi Catholic College in London, Ontario, and joined weekend acting lessons at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School.

Sutherland told Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2009) that he and Robert Downey, Jr. were roommates for three years when he first moved to Hollywood to pursue his career in acting. He and Downey, Jr. also worked together in the film 1969.

Sutherland has one daughter (Sarah) from his first marriage to Camelia Kath, the widow of Chicago guitarist/singer Terry Kath, to whom he was wedded from 1987 to 1990. Through their marriage, he became stepfather to Camilla’s daughter, Michelle Kath, who has two sons. Sarah Sutherland is an actress and performs on the TV series Veep.

Julia Roberts joined Sutherland in 1990 when they co-starred in Flatliners. In August 1990, Roberts and Sutherland declared their engagement, with an extensive studio-planned wedding scheduled for 14 June 1991. Roberts broke the engagement three days before the wedding supposedly because Sutherland had been meeting with a go-go dancer called Amanda Rice.

Sutherland rejected having an affair with Rice and told that they only met because he wanted to play pool. On the day of what was thought to be their wedding, Roberts moved to Ireland with Sutherland’s friend Jason Patric.

In the late 1990s, Sutherland bought a 900-acre ranch in Montana and traveled on the rodeo circuit. On 29 June 1996, Sutherland married Kelly Winn. The couple parted in 1999, and he filed for divorce in 2004. The divorce was finalized on 16 May 2008. He dated Bo Derek in 2000.

Sutherland started dating model/actress Cindy Vela of Olmito, Texas sometime in 2014, keeping their relationship secret up until 2017 when they began to be seen together in public. Vela and Sutherland became engaged in 2017. As of 2019, they reside in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles.

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Kiefer Sutherland Net Worth

Kiefer Sutherland has a net worth of $110 million.

In 2002, Kiefer purchased a transformed Silver Lake ironworks foundry for $700,000; the building is 14,400 square feet, and Sutherland used the downstairs area into a recording studio and co-founded a record label called Ironworks Music.

He sold the home for $3 million in 2009, and he dumped his New York City townhouse for $17.5 million in 2012, he paid $8.2 million for the 4,830 square foot home in 2008. Kiefer also sold his Santa Ynez Valley ranch for $3.6 million in 2000.

Controversies

• Sutherland was charged in Los Angeles on 25 September 2007, on drunken driving charges, after failing a field sobriety test. His test passed the state’s legal blood alcohol limit, and he was later freed on a $25,000 bail. It was Sutherland’s fourth DUI charge since 1989. Sutherland declared no contest to the DUI charge and was sentenced to 48 days in jail.
• Sutherland surrendered to the NYPD on 7 May 2009 for head-butting fashion designer Jack McCollough, founder, and co-designer of Proenza Schouler, at The Mercer Hotel in SoHo following a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many weeks later, Sutherland and McCollough announced a joint statement in which Sutherland apologized; police later dismissed the charges.

Kiefer Sutherland Movies And TV Shows

• Kiefer Sutherland had a secondary character in the1983 comedy, ‘Max Dugan Returns’. His father acted in the movie too, but Kiefer did not have any scene with him.
• His first starring role was in the Canadian film, ‘The Bad Boy’, in 1984. The coming-of-age film saw him play a sensitive teenager who holds his mother’s attempts to make him a priest.
• In 1986, he played in his first American film, ‘Stand by Me’. In this movie about four boys’ looking for a dead body, he performed “Ace” Merrill, a bully.
• He played for the first time in a Joel Schumacher directed the movie, the1987 horror-comedy, ‘The Lost Boys’. The movie was critically and commercially prosperous. Sutherland would work with Schumacher in many more films.
• In the 1990 sci-fi thriller, ‘Flatliners’, he worked with Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt, as one of the five medical students investigating life beyond death.
• In 1992, he appeared in the psychological thriller, ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’, and had a more significant performance in the Oscar-nominated film, ‘A Few Good Men’, as Lieutenant Jonathan James Kendrick.
• In 1993, Sutherland worked alongside Jeff Bridges and Nancy Travis in ‘The Vanishing’, an unconvincing remake of a Franco-Dutch thriller, and ‘The Three Musketeers’ which got negative reviews but did well commercially.
• In the 1996 crime thriller, ‘Eye for an Eye’, he performed Robert Doob, a serial killer. The movie also starred Sally Field and Ed Harris and was scrutinized for its promotion of vigilantism.
• Now considered a cult classic, ‘Dark City’, the sci-fi film of 1998, starred the actor with Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, and William Hurt. The film received many awards in film festivals around the world.
• He had a supporting character in the Joel Schumacher directed 1996 box-office hit, ‘ A Time to Kill’. The movie starred Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kevin Spacey.
• The TV series, ‘24’, starring Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer, premiered in 2001 and has now completed 192 episodes over 8 seasons. Events in each episode happen in real-time.
• In the Joel Schumacher nail-biter, ‘Phone Booth’ (2003), the actor was given second billing behind Colin Farrell, despite looking physically onscreen only for three minutes. He is the secret caller in the movie.
• In the 2006 thriller, ‘The Sentinel’ he starred with Michael Douglas. Both don the roles of secret service agents. Directed by Clark Johnson, the movie was poorly received by critics.
• In the 2012 supernatural drama series, ‘Touch’, he stars as a former reporter who feels that his sensitive special-needs son has a gift for foretelling future events.
• In May and July 2014, twelve-episodes of ‘24: Live Another Day’, was aired by Fox.

Facts About Kiefer Sutherland

1. He is named after Warren Kiefer, who was an American-born director and writer.
2. In 1970, his parents got divorced.
3. He resided in the UK, USA, and Canada before becoming popular as an actor.
4. He has shared the same room as actor Robert Downey, Jr. for 3 consecutive years when he shifted to Hollywood.
5. Kiefer once told in an interview that his mother is the only person in the world he is scared of.
6. Kiefer had a crush on heroine Julie Christie.
7. In December 2008, he earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
8. For Driving Under the Influence (DUI), he was conducted to prison for 48 days in December 2007.
9. Kiefer is distantly linked to Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont.
10. Along with singer Jude Cole, he co-founded the record label, Ironworks.

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