What actress did Toni Collette beat out to win an Emmy Award?”
olllette, who plays a mother with multiple personalities in the series United States of Tara, has described her win as insanely comforting. “Wow, this is insanely confronting,” said a beaming Collette. She thanked series creator Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno. The Sydney born star is no stranger to big Hollywood award nights, after being nominated for an Oscar for her supporting performance in the 1999 thriller Sixth Sense and an Emmy in 2007 for the TV mini series Tsunami: The Aftermath. She came away from both empty-handed. Meanwhile Australia’s Simon Baker missed out on the award for best actor in a TV drama. The Emmy instead went to Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad. Tasmanian-born Baker, who just turned 40, has bounced from Hollywood feature films including LA Confidential and The Devil Wears Prada to high-rating US TV shows including The Guardian and the latest, The Mentalist, one of the highest rating shows on US TV. TV show Mad Men, which is aired on SBS in A
