Welcome to Toni Collette Online, your premiere web resource on the Australian actress and singer. Best known for her iconic performances in "Muriel's Wedding", "The
Sixth Sense", "United States of Tara" and "Hereditary", Toni Collette has emerged as one of her generation's greatest talents. In its 13th year online, his unofficial
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Upon its Netflix premiere last week, “Unbelievable” has been featured in various magazines to promote its release. Scans from five magazines have been added to the photo gallery. Many thanks to Jess for the Entertainment Weekly scans.
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – OK! Magazine (Australia, September 23, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Woman’s Day (Australia, September 16, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Entertainment Weekly (USA, September 16, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – TV & Satellite Week (United Kingdom, September 07, 2019)
Photo Gallery – Articles & Scans – Time Magazine (USA, February 04, 2019)
The final interview for Tuesday’s “Unbelievable” press tour saw Toni Collette taking a seat on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” for the first time. They recounted their first meeting behind the scenes of SNL, Toni’s career chance to become a professional race car driver, the 25th anniversary of “Muriel’s Wedding” and shaving her head numerous times. The interview can be watched below, with stills and screencaptures being added to the photo gallery. After all the promotion, the one thing you have to do is to check out “Unbelievable” on Netflix!
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2019 – Late Night with Seth Meyers
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – 2019 – Late Night with Seth Meyers (screencaptures)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 2019 – Late Night with Seth Meyers
Also on Tuesday, Toni and the cast of “Unbelievable” – Merritt Wever, Kaitlyn Dever and Danielle Macdonald – were interviewed on “The Today Show”, sharing their experience on working on a serious drama. There was also more praise for Collette from co-star Dever, who said that Toni’s performance in “The Sixth Sense” was the reason she became an actress. After “Today”, Toni stopped by Sirius XM for a radio interview. Pictures from both appearances can be found in the photo gallery.
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2019 – Toni Collette visits Sirius XM
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2019 – The Today Show
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – 2019 – The Today Show (screencaptures)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 2019 – Buzzfeed’s AM To DM
Merritt Wever and Toni Collette are starring in the new Netflix true crime drama Unbelievable, but Wever admitted to being rather starstruck by her Oscar-nominated costar behind the scenes. “Working with her was a very big draw for me,” Wever said of Collette. “It was a very huge honor. Did not disappoint.” Collette said she’s been blessed in her career, but feels humbled that many fans still approach her and tell her how they relate so closely to her characters. “I get a lot of, ‘You’re terrible, Muriel’ and ‘I see dead people,’” Collette said, referencing iconic lines from Muriel’s Wedding (1994) and The Sixth Sense (1999). Wever then admitted she, too, couldn’t resist quoting the Muriel’s Wedding line to Collette when they met on set. “I did that to your face. It was terrible,” said Wever. “No, it wasn’t,” Collette said. “She was immediately mortified!” Wever recounted how she could barely get her words out as she spoke to Collette, to the point that her costar was concerned she was having a brain aneurism. “I was like, ‘You’re terrible, Muriel,’” she said. Wever said she couldn’t resist the opportunity to say the line to Collette in person. “To not a small group of people that’s a big deal – to get to Muriel the actual Muriel, and I got to Muriel Muriel,” she said, “and I hold it in my heart.” “I had to text someone right afterwards,” Wever added. “I was so nervous that she was going to think I was a freak.” Watch the full interview with Toni Collette and Merritt Wever here:
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2019 – Buzzfeed’s AM To DM
Photo Gallery – Television Appearances – 2019 – Buzzfeed’s AM To DM (screencaptures)
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 2019 – Buzzfeed’s AM To DM
What a banner week it has been for Toni Collette: The promotion for both “Knives Out” in Toronto and “Unbelievable” in New York – and, in case you’ve missed it, the official announcement that she will indeed star in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming “Nightmare Alley”). This week’s Monday and Tuesday were blocked for all kinds of appearances to promote Friday’s premiere of “Unbelievable” on Netflix. A first visit was paid to Build Series in New York City, with Toni, Kaitlyn Dever, Merritt Wever, Danielle Macdonald and executive producers Susannah Grant, Lisa Cholodenko and Sarah Timberman in attendance. The full interview can be watched below (and in the video archive) while screencaptures have been added to the photo gallery.
Photo Gallery – Public Appearances – 2019 – Build Series: The Cast of “Unbelievable”
Video Archive – Public Appearances – 2019 – Build Series: The Cast of “Unbelievable”
Merrit Wever and Toni Collette are interviewed by Oprah Magazine: If you watch Unbelievable, the Netflix limited series starring Kaitlyn Dever, Toni Collette, and Merritt Wever, and find yourself dream-casting Collette and Wever’s characters in True Detective season 4, you’re not alone. “Oh my God, everybody keeps saying that!” Collette tells OprahMag.com. “Given the darkness of this show, maybe that’s why they’re enjoying Merritt and I so much. They’re kind of an odd couple, and it’s entertaining.” Collette and Wever play Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall, detectives from two Colorado towns who merge investigations upon realizing they’re looking for the same rape suspect. Inspired by true events, Unbelievable is both a gripping narrative and an incisive look at the way American rape survivors are treated—and, too often, mistreated. Any viewer who cares to self-examine will be left considering the myth that false claims of rape are a pervasive problem: In reality, only about 2 percent of rape and sexual assault claims are found to be false, per FBI statistics. Meanwhile, RAINN estimates that only 1 in 4 rapes are reported, with fear of retaliation and belief that the police can’t or won’t help them cited as reasons many survivors say they didn’t. But what happens to Marie (played by Dever) is proof that long-held cultural biases leave little room for facts. The show interweaves Marie’s story in 2008 with the 2011 search for a serial rapist in Colorado, mirroring the structure of the Pulitzer Prize-winning article that inspired it, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape.” Journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong’s storytelling choice is even more effective onscreen; just as Marie faces yet another infuriating setback from one of the many people who failed her in the wake of her rape, the action shifts to the forward momentum of Detectives Rasmussen and Duvall’s investigation (thus saving the viewer from sinking into the depths alongside Marie).