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Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by P. J. Hogan.The film, which stars Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Jeanie Drynan, Sophie Lee, and Bill Hunter, focuses on the socially awkward Muriel whose ambition is to have a glamorous wedding and improve her personal life by moving from her dead-end hometown, the fictional Porpoise Spit, to Sydney.
For her performance in Muriel's Wedding (1994), Collette received her first Golden Globe Award nomination. [156] For her role in The Sixth Sense (1999), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [217] She went on to earn BAFTA Award nominations for About a Boy (2002) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
Collette's breakthrough role came in the comedy-drama Muriel's Wedding (1994), for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination. She achieved greater recognition for The Sixth Sense (1999), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In fact, Collette was delivering pizzas when she landed the lead in Muriel’s Wedding (1994), the sleeper hit rom-com sensation that turned her into an international star.
FLASHBACKS: It made a star out of Toni Collette and is one of the few films to have an Abba-approved soundtrack. As the Golden Globe-nominated cult classic turns 30, Roisin O’Connor explores how ...
Collette at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con. Australian actress Toni Collette made her film debut in Spotswood (1992) for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, her breakthrough role came in the comedy-drama Muriel's Wedding (1994), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination and won her the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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If Mafia Mamma is Hardwicke’s bizarro feminist Godfather, then Toni Collette (Muriel’s Wedding, Hereditary) is its Michael Corleone.(Though a running joke in the movie is that Collette’s ...