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Toni Collette (born 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress, former fashion model and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish. She is a recipient of the Emmy and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and has been nominated for both the Academy Award and the Tony Award. Collette's acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in films such as ''Spotswood'' (1992) and ''Muriel's Wedding'' (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She achieved international recognition as a result of her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999) and a year later made her Tony Award-nominated Broadway debut with the leading role in the musical ''The Wild Party''. In the 2000s, she was noted for her roles in independent features including ''About a Boy'' (2002), for which she won several critics' awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award, and ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006), which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as her second Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. From 2009 to 2011, she played the lead role in the television series ''United States of Tara'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Internet Movie Database )〕 Collette returned to Broadway in Will Eno's ''The Realistic Joneses'', for which she earned a Drama Desk Special Award. ==Early life== Toni Collett was born in Blacktown, a suburb in Western Sydney, the daughter of Judy, a customer-service representative, and Bob Collett, a truck driver. She has two younger brothers, Ben and Christopher. She was born under the surname "Collett", but added an "e" at the end for her stage name.〔 From an early age, Collette showed a talent for acting. She faked an appendicitis when she was 11, and was so convincing that doctors removed her appendix, although tests showed nothing wrong with it. She attended Blacktown Girls' High School until the age of 16, and later attended both the Australian Theatre for Young People and National Institute of Dramatic Art. Her first acting role was onstage in the musical ''Godspell'' in Sydney in her early teens. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toni Collette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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