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Peta Wilson Profile |
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Birth Date: November 18, 1970
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Birth Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Birth Name: Peta Gia Wilson
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Peta Gia Wilson (she believes she was named after Miss
Australia 1970) was born November 18, 1970, in New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia. The daughter of Darcy Wilson, a
retired warrant officer, and Karlene, a caterer, Peta and
her family moved more than a dozen times before finally
settling down in Papua New Guinea (where her father was
stationed), where she was raised.
In order to fit in as best she could, considering she was
constantly switching schools, the self-proclaimed "army
brat" tried to deal with being a social outcast by
participating in sports (which she enjoyed anyway) and by
pretending to be "into" whatever activity others were doing,
thus performing every day of her adolescence.
While in Australia, she was the youngest woman on the
national basketball team, and she was also an accomplished
sailor, having been named Australian Champion Trailer
Sailors along with her brother and father.
After these accomplishments, Peta decided to take off to
Europe and pursue a modeling career. She worked as a model
for several years and suffered from an eating disorder; she
soon grew tired of modeling and decided to try her hand at
acting.
Peta moved to Los Angeles in 1991, where she met her
director boyfriend a short while after. She and Damian
Harris moved into an apartment together, while Peta was
taking acting lessons with coach Arthur Mendoza, from the
Actors Circle Theater and a protg of the renowned Stella
Adler. She was forced to study intensively with Mendoza, and
also has Tom Waits at TomCats Repertory Group to thank for
her acting abilities.
After her first role in Fool For Love, an Actors Circle
Theater production, Peta was cast in the films The Sadness
of Sex and Naked Jane, both in 1995. She appeared in the
made-for-TV movie Woman Undone in 1996, as well as the
series Highlander and Strangers, and the film Loser, also
that year.
After a bit part in Vanishing Point, Peta was cast in her
breakthrough role in 1997, as the title role in the series
La Femme Nikita (a.k.a. Nikita). As Nikita/Josephine, a
French superspy, Peta has helped make the Canadian-produced
show one of the most successful in the US as well.
Peta (not to be confused with the organization for the
ethical treatment of animals) made cameo appearances in
1997, in Raw is War. She has also appeared in the 1998 film
One of Our Own and Mercy, 2 years later, directed by her
then-boyfriend Damian Harris.
When not fighting crime on La Femme Nikita, Peta enjoys
outdoor activities such as scuba diving, swimming, playing
cricket, and gardening, and engages in alternative medicine
like yoga and acupuncture.
Peta also funds causes that are important to her; she is
presently working on founding a Julliard for disadvantaged
children, and is raising money with her company, Psycht,
which sells sunglasses, running shoes, watches, and other
accessories. Peta has also founded a production company
called Sweet Lick Productions.
While shooting La Femme Nikita in Toronto, Canada, Peta
shares an apartment with her grandmother, in addition to her
home in the Hollywood Hills. She is no longer dating Harris,
although she was linked to Russell Crowe (then again, who
hasn't?).
After smaller television projects like A Girl Thing
(starring Elle MacPherson and Kate Capshaw) and Other
People, the sexy Nikita star will next appear in the
made-for-TV film Joe and Max. |
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Other
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Peta meditates, practices yoga, gets acupuncture and takes
all kinds of alternative medicines to keep her body in
balance. At age 17, she had a year long battle with
anorexia.
In 1999, moved into a Brooklyn Heights, NY apt. building,
which also includes co-op owners such as producer Andrew S.
Karsch and 'O.J.Simpson' 's former attorney Barry Scheck.
Living with Damian Harris [1997]
Father Darcy Wilson is a retired warrant officer. Mother
Karlene White is a caterer. Brother Rob Wilson, 25, is an
Australian army truck driver.
Was a model in Europe.
Enjoys scuba diving, horseback riding, swimming, cricket,
painting and gardening
Attended an all-girls Catholic school in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia.
Appeared in underwear along with Yasmine Bleeth, Alyssa
Milano, Melissa Joan Hart, Garcelle Beauvais, Carmen
Electra, Jamie Luner, and Jeri Ryan on the cover of, and
inside the October 1997 issue of "Details" magazine.
Gave birth to a baby boy, Marlowe [February 2002]
Replaced Monica Bellucci as Mina Harker in The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). |
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