It's Toni Collette's 51st birthday today and you could knock me over with a feather upon the just-now-made realization that I have never done a list of my favorite Toni performances before. Not even for her 50th last year? What the hell was I thinking? Well there's no time like the present. I don't think this list will surprise anybody with my choices given what a vocal supporter of her I've been since I saw Muriel's Wedding way back in '96 and it became basically my number one favorite movie of all time...
... I think the only thing that will surprise is that I didn't up the number to ten or fifteen performances! Because I coulda! And I purposefully decided to leave T.V. performances off because that coulda doubled it again (but seriously, The United States of Tara forever). The fact that I got to hang out with her for a couple of drinks while she was doing press for Hereditary will probably always remain the greatest perk this gig has ever gifted me. That brag aside, here's my list!
My 5 Fave Toni Collette Movie Performances
"To say goodbye."
"I never wanted to be your mother."
"Why can't it be me? Why can't I be the one?"
"Do I make her proud?"
"It's funny how beautiful people look
when they're walking out the door."
Runners-up: In Her Shoes, The Hours, Knives Out, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Velvet Buzzsaw, Krampus, Little Miss Sunshine, About a Boy, Clockwatchers, Emma... and all the rest!
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11 comments:
The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding, In Her Shoes, Knives Out, and Velvet Goldmine.
She should have won the best supp actress Oscar for "the sixth sense."
Oh my GOD I forgot about IN HER SHOES -- adding to the runner-up pile immediately
Hereditary, United States of Tara, Clockwatchers, Muriel's Wedding and Knives Out would be my top five.
Also, her top three characters from Tara were Shoshana, Buck and Alice for me.
Literally everything, I'm just gonna add Connie and Carla and Fright Night..
While a fan since Muriel, I didn't recognize her greatness until US of Tara.
While I can't say I'm a completist in her filmography I am a big fan of her and her work. A very skillful actress.
My top 5:
The Sixth Sense-just flat out brilliant
Emma-In anyone else's hands the flibbertigibbet Harriet would have been nigh intolerable but she makes her endearing.
Connie and Carla
Little Miss Sunshine
Muriel's Wedding
Hereditary
Muriel's Wedding
The Sixth Sense
Little Miss Sunshine
The Hours
'I could do anything'. 'Oh Laura, I don't think you can call yourself a woman until you're a mother'
Jason, if you haven't seen it, you HAVE to watch Unbelievable. It's top tier Toni (TTT!).
Top 5
1 Hereditary
2 The Sixth Sense
3 Muriels' Wedding
4 In Her Shoes
5 The Hours
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