Toni Collette Wins 2009 Emmy Award For Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series

Toni Collette wins the 2009 Emmy Award For Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series

Antonia "Toni" Collette is an Australian actress 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.

Colette achieved international recognition for her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense (1999). She quickly became one of the best-known and highest-paid Australian actresses in Hollywood, who has had her biggest commercial successes with thrillers such as Shaft (2000) and Changing Lanes (2001) and independent comedy films like About a Boy (2002), In Her Shoes (2005) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

United States of Tara is a comic series created by Diablo Cody and starring Toni Collette. The Showtime series follows the life of Tara, a housewife with dissociative identity disorder. It premiered on January 18, 2009. The pilot, written by Cody and directed by Craig Gillespie.

The NBC comedy series 30 Rock was the most-nominated show with 22 nominations, and HBO had the most nominations of any network with a total of 99.

Collette starred on Broadway as Queenie in Michael John LaChiusa's musical work, The Wild Party. For this role, Collette received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

 

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