Peta Wilson

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Peta Gia Wilson (2004)

Peta Wilson (born November 18, 1970 in Sydney , New South Wales ; actually Peta Gia Wilson ) is an Australian actress and model .

Life and accomplishments

youth

Peta Wilson was born in the Australian city of Sydney. From the age of one to six, she lived in Papua , Papua New Guinea . Her mother's name is Carlyne White. The father, Darcy Wilson, was in the military as a corporal or warrant officer , special services . Back in Australia, the family moved frequently due to the father's service. The one year younger brother, Rob Wilson, is also in the Australian Army. Peta Wilson was later educated in a Catholic girls' school in Brisbane , Queensland . She was on the Australian national team for netball and won the title of Australian Interservice Champion Trailer Sailors in sailing with her father and brother . At fifteen, she won a model-of-the-year competition in Queensland and then worked in Japan. At seventeen, she suffered from anorexia as a belated reaction to her parents' divorce, which occurred when Wilson was eleven years old. At nineteen, she was engaged for a few months to the Australian singer James Reyne, whom she met on a cruise ship.

Career

After graduating from high school , Peta Wilson worked for the Chadwick Models agency as a model in Australia and Europe (Italy and London). In 1991 she moved to Los Angeles , USA , where she studied Method Acting with Arthur Mendoza of the Actors Circle Theater in Los Angeles, Tom Waits of the TomCats Repertory Group and Sylvana Gulado . Her manager was the late Michael McLean, who also promoted the careers of Nicole Kidman , Naomi Watts and other Australian actors. Wilsons first appearance in the theater was in Fool For Love of Sam Shepard . First small and later larger roles in front of the camera followed. One of her first movies was Denver PD - The War Devils ( One of Our Own , 1997), in which she starred alongside Michael Ironside . In the television film Hell Hunt to San Francisco ( Vanishing Point , 1997) she starred alongside Viggo Mortensen .

In the Canadian television series Nikita ( La Femme Nikita , 1997-2001), Wilson took on the lead role of the martial arts-trained secret agent Nikita , whose code name is Josephine . She was selected from more than 200 applicants. The German voice actress for Nikita was Katrin Fröhlich .

The dramatic agent series became the springboard for Wilson's international career. Her photos and articles have appeared in English-language newspapers and magazines (including Vogue , Cosmopolitan , Harper's Bazaar , Esquire , Maxim , New York Post, and New York Times ). Due to scheduling difficulties, she could not take on the role of Jean Gray in the action film X-Men (2000) by director Bryan Singer ; Famke Janssen replaced them. In the erotic thriller Mercy - The Dark Side of Lust (2000) by director and screenwriter Damian Harris , Wilson played alongside Ellen Barkin . In 2001 she presented this film at the Moscow Film Festival . In 2002 the boxer film Joe & Max was released, in which she can be seen under the direction of Steve James in the role of Anny Ondra at the side of Til Schweiger , who played her husband Max Schmeling . In July 2004, Wilson was on the cover of US Playboy and later on the Russian edition.

Further Peta Wilson created the company Sweet Lip Productions to order films produce . Together with Jasper Sceats, the son of the designer Jonathan Sceats, she produced watches for the accessories company Psycht for a while .

Wilson lives in a house on the beach at Coffs Harbor , in New South Wales, about 550 km north of Sydney and in Sydney. The week Wilson found out she was pregnant, she was offered the lead role in the action comedy I Spy, starring Eddie Murphy , which went to Famke Janssen. Wilson gave birth to their son Marlowe in late February 2002. Father is longtime friend Damian Harris (son of Richard Harris ). Wilson met him in 1992 at the age of 21 soon after moving to Los Angeles. They separated after about ten years.

The female lead of the vampire woman Mina Harker was given to Peta Wilson in the fantasy action film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) by director Stephen Norrington with Sean Connery in the lead role. The film is loosely based on the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and was shot in Prague in 2002 during the flood of the century in the Czech Republic .

In the 2004 television film, False Pretenses, starring Stewart Bick , Wilson played the lead role who outsmarted an unscrupulous businessman. The film was released on August 14, 2007 in Canada in English and French on DVD. In the series Jonny Zero (2005) she took on a guest role in two episodes. In January 2006, Wilson directed an episode of Bryan Brown's Australian mystery series Two Twisted . Daniel Wyllie played along. The series started on August 14, 2006 on the Australian television channel Nine Network .

In 2006, Peta Wilson was seen in a smaller role for a few minutes as NASA commissioner in the action film Superman Returns , which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Visual Effects . The science fiction film was released in German cinemas on August 17, 2006. The director was Bryan Singer.

Wilson took on a role in the independent drama Gardens of the Night (2008) from screenwriter and director Damian Harris. The cast includes: Evan Ross, a son of singer Diana Ross , Tom Arnold , Kevin Zegers , Evan Peters , Harold Perrineau , Jeremy Sisto , Raphael Sbarge and John Malkovich . The film was shot from August 21 to October 2006. The world premiere was on February 9, 2008 at the Berlinale , where it took part in the competition section. From September 2008 he was seen in US cinemas.

The six-week filming of the film Beautiful began on September 10, 2007 in Adelaide , Australia. Starring Deborra-Lee Furness , Asher Keddie, Tahyna Tozzi and Aaron Jeffery , the latter as a police officer, whose wife is played by Wilson, whose role was written for them by director and screenwriter Dean J. O'Flaherty. The release of the film by Kojo Pictures is scheduled for March 9, 2009 in Australia.

Wilson's new film production company is called The Vision Picture Company . Her three partners involved are Susan Landau Finch , a daughter of actor Martin Landau , Peter Hopkins and Ross Straguszi, both from Queensland . Seven feature films are in development and have a budget of between 5 and 30 million (Australian) dollars.

Fifteen days of shooting the independent film Malibu Shark Attack began on April 5, 2008. Wilson took on the role of lifeguard Heather. Other cast include Warren Christie, Chelan Simmons , Sonya Salomaa, Rachel Barton, Remi Broadway, Jeff Gannon and Mungo McKay. The director is David Lister and the producer is Brian Trenchard-Smith .

In 2013, Wilson designed her Wylie Wilson clothing line .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • In 1998, Peta Wilson was nominated for Nikita as Best Genre TV Actress at the Saturn Awards .
  • In 1998 and 1999, she received nominations for best actress in a leading dramatic role at the Gemini Awards for her role as Nikita .
  • In 2004 she was nominated for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as Best Supporting Actress at the Saturn Awards .

literature

  • Ted Edwards: La Femme Nikita X-Posed: The Unauthorized Biography of Peta Wilson and Her On-Screen Character . Prima Lifestyles, 1998, English, ISBN 0-7615-1454-6 .
  • Dawn Connolly: La Femme Peta: The Unauthorized Biography of Peta Wilson . ECW Press, 2000, English, ISBN 1-55022-385-2 .
  • Christopher Heyn : Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita , Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, September 2006, English, ISBN 0-9787625-0-9 . Peta Wilson wrote the short introduction and was interviewed. Pages 66 to 74 deal with her and her role, among other things. Heyn was the assistant to the executive consultants of Nikita in all seasons , especially of Joel Nachbarow , the main creator of the series.

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Commons : Peta Wilson  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Peta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Peta Gia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales , Australia