Welcome to Toni Collette Online, an unofficial information resource on the Australian act-ress and singer, best known from "Muriel's Wedding", "The Sixth Sense" and "Little Miss Sunshine". This site offers all essential info on her life and career with a comprehensive archive of press articles, news, images and video clips. Enjoy your stay!

UPDATES ARCHIVE | JULY 2006 "THE NIGHT LISTENER" VIDEO CLIPS Posted: 2006-07-29 Added two clips from "The Night Listener" to the Multimedia section. MORE INFO ON "EVENING" Posted: 2006-07-29 These news are coming from MTV.com: "The Notebook" won the hearts of millions of moviegoers two years ago, but what if Allie and Noah had never given their love a chance? That provocative territory will be explored in "Evening," a soon-to-film drama starring Claire Danes. "It's a beautiful story. We start shooting it in September in Rhode Island," Toni Collette recently reported. "It's based on a Susan Minot novel and it's adapted by Michael Cunningham, who I've worked with before on 'The Hours.' He's brilliant." Collette also delved into plot details: "Vanessa Redgrave plays my mother, and she's on her deathbed and moving back and remembering her first love when she was young. Claire Danes is playing her when she was a young woman, meeting a person that she ultimately didn't spend her life with — but on her deathbed, that's the person she's thinking about." The heart-tugging flick is expected in 2007, but Collette stopped short of making too many comparisons to the Ryan Gosling/ Rachel McAdams weep fest: "I haven't seen 'The Note-book,' " she laughed. "Sorry!" ... "TONI COLLETTE AND THE FINISH" TO PLAY LIVE Posted: 2006-07-27 Toni Collette will perform songs from her debut album at Homebake in Sydney this December. Her debut album ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’ which is yet to be released, features David Lane (You Am I, The Pictures), Dave Galafasi (Gelbison) and Glen Richards (Augie March). Full article can be read here. "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" NEW YORK PREMIERE Posted: 2006-07-26 Added 54 pictures of Toni at the New York premiere of "Little Miss Sunshine", looking absolutely beautiful! Edit: 18 more pictures have been uploaded, many thanks to Linda for contributing some of them :-) PRESS ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS ADDED Posted: 2006-07-26 With the release of "Little Miss Sunshine" there are a couple of new interviews with and articles about Toni. Check the Press Archive to read them. PREMIERE MAG SPECIAL ON "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" Posted: 2006-07-21 Premiere Magazine.com has a feature on "Little Miss Sunshine" with photos, cast inter-views and more, be sure to visit their site. Thanks to Linda and Nick for the heads-up. There's also an interview with Toni over at MoviesOnline.com. BBC TWO TO SHOW ASIAN TSUNAMI DRAMA IN AUTUMN LINE-UP Posted: 2006-07-21 BBC Two is to take the controversial step of leading its autumn schedule with a drama re-enactment of last Boxing Day's Asian tsunami disaster, in which more than 180,000 people died and 42,000 went missing. The drama, entitled 'Tsunami - The Aftermath', will star 'Reservoir Dogs' actor Tim Roth and Toni Collette, star of 'The Sixth Sense'. It is based on first-hand accounts and interviews with survivors. Roly Keating, controller of BBC Two, said: "'Tsunami - The Aftermath' really gets inside the issues and lessons for humanity raised by a disaster of such extraordinary magnitude. "Its intention is to mark the unique nature and scale of this tragedy, and to pay tribute to some of the victims' and survivors' incredible courage." "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" INTERVIEW VIDEO, FILM SCENES Posted: 2006-07-19 Added a "Little Miss Sunshine" video interview by IFilm.com as well as three new video clips from their site. TONI COLLETTE ON HBO'S TSUNAMI Posted: 2006-07-17 Article by comingsoon.net: At the press day for her latest film Little Miss Sunshine, Collette excitedly told ComingSoon.net about her next project, in which she actually gets to use her own speaking voice and accent, though she also tried out a new language she's never done before. "It's an HBO/BBC co-production, a two part mini-series called 'Tsunami' about the aftermath of the waves hitting," she told us. "It's set in Thailand, and I play an Australian woman whose been living in Thailand for 11 years. I actually speak Thai in that movie, which was a great challenge. It was really great." "That's why I have a tan. I never usually go brown," she laughed. Collette plays a Christian missionary who runs an educational program for the local kids in Thailand and a lot of the film was actually shot in Phuket and Khao Lak, which was one of the areas hit hardest by the 2004 Tsunami. LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON SCREENCAPS Posted: 2006-07-16 Added 75 caps of Toni's July 10 appearance on the "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". TONI COLLETTE TALKS "TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH" Posted: 2006-07-14 The L.A. Daily News has posted an article on the HBO press conference for the upcoming mini-series "Tsunami": "I was very wary of it," Tim Roth admitted about taking a role in the miniseries coming in December, less than two years after 300,000 were killed in the tragedy. "But I found it not to be exploitive at all. If I lost my kid, our family, I don't know that I'd watch it. But I think it's quite honorable." Toni Collette agreed, saying, "I was slightly nervous," but she cited a survivor who said, "Maybe it's too early for the survivors, but it's not too early for the people who weren't there." Since the production shot on location in Thailand in areas devastated by the tsunami, Sophie Okonedo conceded the work was difficult. "We cried quite a lot of the time," she said. "It was very emotional because it was all around us. You didn't have to do too much acting." MORE "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" STILLS Posted: 2006-07-14 Added 10 more production stills of the upcoming "Little Miss Sunshine". REDGRAVE, COLLETTE, DANES IN FOCUS FOR "EVENING" Posted: 2006-07-14 Looks like Toni's involvement with "Evening" is still in negotations, as Reuters has reported: Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave and Toni Collette are in negotiations to star in "Evening," Focus Features' screen adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling novel of the same name. Directed by Oscar nominee Lajos Koltai, the movie centers on 65-year-old cancer patient Ann Grant Lord. While her two daughters try to come to terms with her impending death and struggle with their own issues, Lord reflects on a weekend in her youth when she met the love of her life. Redgrave is set to star as Lord, with Danes and Collette co-starring, respectively, as daughters Ann and Nina. Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") adapted the story for the screen. TIME OUT NEW YORK'S HOT SEAT: TONI COLLETTE Posted: 2006-07-09 Time Out New York has posted a great interview with Toni Collette, talking about "Little Miss Sunshine", shaving her head, living in Australia and the regret of her career. "By the time I finished reading the script for Little Miss Sunshine, I was laughing and crying at the same time. It just felt so true. They weren’t a movie family—they felt like a real family. And in that, it’s very funny... read more TONI COLLETTE TO ATTEND "LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FEGUSON" Posted: 2006-07-09 Toni is announced to attend the "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" tomorrow, July 10. WEINSTEIN COMPANY AQUIRES "LIKE MINDS" Posted: 2006-07-09 Like Minds, reports Variety. The $8 million film has sold to another 11 territories, including Australia, where it will world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 10. Toni Collette and Richard Roxburgh topline as cops hunting a serial killer. The film co-stars newcomers Tom Sturridge and Eddie Redmayne as schoolboy suspects. Like Minds was produced by Jonathan Shteinman, Richard Johns and Piers Tempest, and was written and directed by Gregory J. Read.