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 | MARCH 2007 TONI COLLETTE'S OVERALL ACCIDENT Posted: 2007-03-27 Toni Collette once got the strap of her overalls caught when she was coming out of a make-up trailer, and was left dangling in front of the crew. The 'Little Miss Sunshine' star admitted the incident, which left her "groin" on display, was the most embarrassing moment of her life. Australian actress Toni told the Guardian Weekend magazine: "I was exiting a make-up trailer and the strap of my overalls got hooked on the outside of the bus and I was literally hanging, with my overalls riding up my groin, in front of the whole crew. "It was my most embarrassing moment." Toni, 34, who is married to Dave Galafassi, says her greatest achievement is "continuing to live off my hobby". The whole q/a with the Guardian Weekend (very interesting and funny, so don't miss it) can be read here. ROVE SIGNS UP LAUGH LADS Posted: 2007-03-27 It has lost the word "live" from its title but the upcoming season of Rove may as well be renamed Lots of Funny Aussie Blokes. Following the appointment of former Glass House comedian Dave Hughes, 2DAY FM duo Hamish and Andy were yesterday announced as the latest instalment to host Rove McManus' cast of comedians. With program regular Peter Helliar still on board, the only funny fellas McManus has left to recruit are Merrick and Rosso and Wil Anderson. Hollywood star turned singer Toni Collette will be adding some necessary girl power to the Rove season premiere this Sunday , while Aussie rock gods Silverchair will perform live. UPCOMING DVD RELEASES Posted: 2007-03-21 "Tsunami: The Aftermath" will be released on DVD in the USA on April 24 while "The Dead Girl" will be released on May 8, 2007. Both DVDs can be pre-ordered via Amazon, click the images below. "PSYCHOLOGIES" MAGAZINE SCANS Posted: 2007-03-14 Added scans from the Psychologies Magazine (UK Edition, April 2007) with many thanks to Alvaro for guiding the mag to me! :-) Note: You can click on "Get HQ picture" under each image to get the full size version. Enjoy the scans. COOL AID CAPS AND GAELIC CLUB PICTURES Posted: 2007-03-12 Added screencaps of Toni's appearance on "Cool Aid - The National Carbon Test" and some more pictures of The Finish's performance at the Gaelic Club with many thanks to Samantha. TONI COLLETTE HAS A WAY WITH A TUNE Posted: 2007-03-12 Article courtesy The Courier Mail: Toni Collette and stage fright are not words you expect to see in the same sentence. After all, she is one of this country's finest all-round actors. The day we catch up on the phone also happens to be the day of the Oscars ceremony and the splendid Little Miss Sunshine, in which Collette is part of a superb ensemble cast, is up for best picture. She's certainly relaxed. "I've got the washing machine going, I've been to the doctor, the dog's running around in circles because we don't want to put her out in the rain. I haven't thought about it. I'll watch it on the couch tonight like everyone else," she says. She also has something else on her mind – she's off to band rehearsals preparing for the first national tour by Toni Collette and the Finish, the band she fronts featuring her husband, drummer Dave Galafassi, formerly of the rock band Gelbison. Collette has always enjoyed singing. She's an old hand at musical theatre, which is how she got into acting in the first place, and music has played an important role in her films such as Muriel's Wedding and Cosi. Still, it's one thing performing for the cameras; quite another unveiling your own songs for a paying audience. "Our first show was at the Basement in Sydney. I was absolutely petrified!" Collette says, laughing. "I had to go to the toilet six or seven times beforeha Full article can be read here. TONI COLLETTE AND THE FINISH @ GAELIC CLUB Posted: 2007-03-07 Added photos of Toni Collette and the Finish's concert at the Gaelic Club, March 02, 2007. TONI COLLETTE: POLICY OF TRUTH Posted: 2007-03-07 Article courtesy Xpress Magazine: Toni Collette and her band, The Finish, will make their debut performances in WA this Saturday, March 10, at the Rosemount Hotel and Sunday, March 11, at the Fly By Night Club. Christie Eliezer reports. While growing up in Sydney’s west in the ‘80s, Toni Collette did not — unlike her mates — wet her panties over AC/DC or Guns N’ Roses, or a series of join-the-dots glam metal bands whose boy singers were prettier and with better hair than they. “When I was young, we lived in a street with a lot of Christian families,” Collette explains. “I was friends with one of their daughters, and we went to these youth Christian events. One night they showed us this video where if you played metal records backwards, there’d be these satanic messages. So I never listened to those kind of records. There was definitely an element of fear. My brothers listened to that kind of music, and I’m like, `Oh man, you’re going straight to hell’ (laughs). It didn’t last long but it did scare the shit out of me.” Full article can be read here. SCREENCAPS RE-ADDED (PART 2) Posted: 2007-03-07 More caps have been uploaded from "Emma", "The James Gang", "The Boys", "Velvet Goldmine", "Eight and a Half Women", "Changing Lanes", "Dirty Deeds" and "Japanese Story". With a few movies left to go, the Career section in the Gallery is almost back again ;-) TONI COLLETTE READY TO CALL THE SHOTS Posted: 2007-03-05 Article courtesy The New Zealand Herald: After 17 years of acting, three-times Golden Globe winner (actually, three time nominee ;-) Toni Collette believes she's at a point in her career where she can call the shots. No longer is she driven to lend her name to roles she isn't wholeheartedly interested in. "I've go to the point where I don't want to work on anything I am not 100 per cent sure about," 34-year-old Collette said from her home in Sydney. "I want to be in love with what I am doing, otherwise it's not worth it. "Life's too short. I have been making movies since I was 17, it's more than half my life, and there is room to spread out a little." Collette last year expanded her creative drive into songwriting with the release of her debut album Beautiful Awkward Pictures, which features her husband Dave Galafassi on drums. Full article can be read here. "LIKE MINDS" SCREENINGS Posted: 2007-03-05 Many thanks to Piers for letting me know that "Like Minds" will be shown at the London Australian Film Festival on March 16th at the Barbican in London (www.barbican.org.uk) and at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival in Belgium in April (www.bifff.org/). If you haven't seen "Like Minds" yet you shouldn't miss it, it's definately one of Toni's must-see movies :-) TONI COLLETTE HAS HOPES OF A BIG FINISH Posted: 2007-03-05 Article courtesy The Age: Toni Collette may be famous for movies, but as a child singing into a hairbrush in the bedroom, it was pop stardom that she longed for. "I was the girl trying out for the talent quests at the shopping centres and RSL clubs all across New South Wales because my parents — God bless 'em — would drive me around following my dream. "That's how performance began for me, and that led to musical theatre, which led to straight acting, which took over over my life, really," she says on the phone from her Sydney home. Collette's childhood reads like the script to her latest film, the Academy Award-winning Little Miss Sunshine, in which Collette's character and her family drive across the US to get her daughter to a beauty pageant. But Collette, who is touring Victoria next week with her band the Finish to promote her debut album, Beautiful Awkward Pictures, will not be traversing the state in a crowded van — she can afford to fly. There are other luxuries not usually available to nascent singers, such as being able to record the album in her own studio (which she built with her musician husband Dave Galafassi in Berry, NSW), and releasing it on her own label, Hoola Hoop.Read the full article here. "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" WINS 2 ACADEMY AWARDS Posted: 2007-03-05 Better late than never, congratulations to Michael Arndt and Alan Arkin for their Oscars! They have been awarded for "Best Original Screenplay" and "Best Supporting Actor". So "Little Miss Sunshine" has arrived its way from Indie sleeper to an Oscar winning movie! :-)