Sydney-born Toni Collette (b. 1972) is an actor, film producer, singer and songwriter. For her breakthrough film role playing the lead in Muriel's Wedding (1994), she won a Best Actress AACTA and a Golden Globe nomination. She received further AACTAs for her performances in Lilian's Story (1996), The Boys (1998) and Japanese Story (2003). Her international film credits include The Sixth Sense (1999), About a Boy (2002), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Hereditary (2018) and Knives Out (2019), and she has received Emmy nominations for her performances in the TV series United States of Tara (2008–11), Unbelievable (2019) and The Staircase (2022). She made her Broadway debut in The Wild Party (2000), earning a Tony Award nomination.
Collette praised Polly Borland's desire to capture something of her true self, rather than one of her characters or a celebrity persona. 'More often than not, [shoots] are for glossy magazines and they try to sell you as a certain type of image, it's pretty rare when they actually want you to be seen as yourself,' Collette said when the portrait was first exhibited.
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