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Peta Gia Wilson (born November 18, 1970)
is an Australian actress and model.
Early life: Wilson was born in Sydney, New South
Wales to Karlene White and Darcy Wilson, who divorced in
1982. At a young age, she moved and lived a portion of
her life in Papua New Guinea. Living there without
television or radio, she and her brother learned to
entertain themselves putting on private shows for their
parents lip synching to Liza Minnelli.
This was just a hint of her budding
talent to come. Her family moved around from place to
place as her father, Darcy Wilson, was in the military
special forces. She learned to adapt quickly to each
place she moved and was very well liked.
During her teen years she involved herself in sports
such as netball and swimming. As a very energetic young
woman, her mother was concerned about her being a
tomboy, so Peta was sent to deportment classes. While
there she was spotted by a modeling agent. Her new
career allowed her to live in Europe but Peta had other
plans.
Career: First working as a model in Australia and
Europe, she moved to Los Angeles where she studied
acting in 1991. She studied with people like Arthur
Mendoza from The Actors Circle Theatre in Los Angeles,
as well as Tom Waits at the TomKat Repertory Group. She
landed small roles in independent films such as Loser
and One of Our Own.
But in 1996, ready to pursue her acting
studies in New York, she was persuaded to audition for
USA Network. She beat out 200 other actresses for the
starring role in the Canadian television action series
Nikita (U.S. title: La Femme Nikita) playing the role of
Nikita, codenamed Josephine, a martial arts trained
covert agent. The show was based on Nikita, a Luc Besson
movie of the same name.
The show was a successful spring board for Peta's career
in fact she received two Gemini nominations for Best
Performance By An Actress in a Continuing Leading
Dramatic Role.
In 2003, Peta Wilson appeared in the movie The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen with Sean Connery in the role of
vampire Mina Harker. In 2006, she appeared in the film
Superman Returns as Bobbie-Faye, a spokesperson for
NASA.
Although a career as an actress may seem unusual for a
girl who grew up in a house without a television or
radio, what may seem to be a negative in inspiring a
cinematic career was actually a blessing in disguise for
Peta Wilson.
Entertaining her family for hours on end by staging
musical shows and lip-synching to Neil Diamond records
gave the budding young actress a solid foundation for
entertaining.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Wilson spent a large portion
of her childhood in the wilds of Papua New Guinea.
Educated at an all-girls Catholic School in Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia, Wilson turned to athletics as a
means to stay out of trouble, though her mother enrolled
her into deportment classes in attempts to discourage
the more tomboyish traits that accompanied Wilson's
fondness for sports.
It was during these courses that Wilson was spotted by a
modeling agent who encouraged her to consider a career
on the catwalk. Traveling Europe in the following years
as a successful model, Wilson soon began to nurture her
affection for acting, prompting the aspiring actress'
1991 move to L.A.
Studying at the Actors Circle Theater in L.A. under the
tutelage of Arthur Mendoza, Wilson began to get small
roles in such independent films as Loser (1996), and set
her television career into motion with an appearance on
the HBO series Strangers.
Shortly before her departure for New York in 1996 to
continue her studies in theater, Wilson's agent
persuaded her to audition for the television series La
Femme Nikita -- a happy coincidence that resulted in
Wilson's casting as the title character in the USA
series based on Luc Besson's Nikita (1990). Soon
appearing in such films as One of Our Own (1998) and
Mercy (2000), Wilson would eventually make it to New
York for her role in A Girl Thing (2001). |
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