While she has played plenty of pretty (or even beautiful) women in her career, her big breakthrough came about through a stunning and very funny performance as an "ugly duckling." Ever since, she can be found across all genres, in all sorts of roles, often disappearing completely into her characters. Without a doubt, Toni Collette is one of the most reliable actresses on the planet, as she is consistently great even when given bad material. She's never, ever the weakest link in a production, and always worth watching.
Therefore, once again I'm going to use a gallery of eight pictures of one of my favorite thespians to make a quiz, so click through the images and guess which movies they're from. No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDb.
And I'll post the answers on Thursday, unless they've all been identified already!
And here she is as Agnes in Hector and the Search for Happiness.
This picture doesn't count yet in the quiz, but all the others do! Flick through them all and see how many you can recognize...
Quiz picture number one.
Quiz picture number two.
Quiz picture number three.
Quiz picture number four.
Quiz picture number five.
Quiz picture number six.
Quiz picture number seven.
And, finally, quiz picture number eight!