Peta Wilson, biography, news, photos

Childhood and youth

Peta Gia Wilson was born in 1970 on the Green Continent. Peta's family lived in Sydney, New South Wales. The actress's parents were military men: her mother was engaged in supplying food, and her father was a career officer. He was really looking forward to his first-born boy and even wanted to name him Pedro. But a girl was born, and dad had to experiment with the name.

Peta Wilson in childhood

As a child, Peta and her family often and unexpectedly moved to remote places, which was caused by the profession of her parents. When the girl was 5 years old, the family, which by that time already had a son, Rob, moved to Papua New Guinea. In the new environment, the girl began to get seriously ill and barely recovered from malaria, which dragged on for 9 months.

After her recovery, at the encouragement of her grandmother, Peta took her health seriously: she followed a strict daily routine with early rises, worked on hardening, and took up sports. Her choice fell on basketball, and when she went to school, she also fell in love with judo. The girl grew up active and independent, easily getting close to new people and making friends. She had to learn this, because over the years of study she changed a dozen schools.

The girl was her father's favorite, and her mother was worried that her lively and sharp daughter lacked femininity and grace. Peta often ran away from the dance school where her mother sent her, and willingly exchanged dresses and skirts for jeans.

In 1985, the girl had to go through her first personal drama: her parents’ divorce. At first Peta decided to stay with her mother, but later moved to her grandparents. In her youth, the future actress continued to play sports and even joined the Australian national netball team. At the same time, the girl was noticed in the show business industry, and she received offers from modeling agencies and entered into her first contracts.

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Youth[ | ]

She was born into the family of retired officer Wilson Darcy and caterer Carlene White[2]. Four years later she had a brother, Rob.

In 1975 she moved to Papua New Guinea and became ill with malaria for 9 months. After this, Grandmother Elizabeth, who nursed her, resolutely took up the physical education of her granddaughter. She got her up at 4 in the morning, doused her with ice water, quickly threw an egg into the frying pan for her and sent her to basketball practice. A little later, already at school, Pita also took up judo.

The mother was seriously concerned about her daughter's appearance. Long, angular, sharp, not a girl growing up, but a kind of “tomboy”. Therefore, Pita’s mother enrolled Pita in the dance section, but Pita constantly ran away from classes. Her mother bought her dresses, and Pita used them as bedding for her pets, like a wild boar. The father saw the mother's concern, but was secretly proud of his favorite. He perceived her as his eldest son. With her and her brother Rob, they won a river regatta and received a prize - a toilet seat, which her father still keeps.

She then moved frequently, changing schools every six months. At the age of 8, Pita and his mother spent New Year's Eve in a hotel. Pita learned to adapt her personality to each new place and find new friends, which played an important role for her in the future. And in 1985, her parents divorced. They never talked about it.

I lived with my mother, and my brother lived with my father. It was very difficult. I needed consistency, stability, and so I began to live with my grandparents.

Career[ | ]

In 1991, Pita moved to Los Angeles. She attended acting classes and received several small roles in independent films - "", "", series "", "Highlander", which launched her television career.

By 1996, Pita was ready to leave Los Angeles to head to New York City to continue working and studying in the theater. But first, her agent convinced her to do a TV audition for Her Name Was Nikita. Without high expectations, not even sure she wanted to act in a television series, Pita showed up for the audition and beat out more than 200 other actresses. She prepared for filming for 2 months, practicing taekwondo, mastered hand-to-hand combat and kickboxing techniques. She does most of her own stunts in the film. The television series became a springboard for her career. In 1998, she used the break in filming the series between the second and third seasons to star in the film ".

In the summer of 2000, Pita starred in the miniseries "" on the Showtime channel. Then she works with Til Schweiger on a new role in the film "".

Peta Wilson with Vladimir Putin and Jack Nicholson at Nikita Mikhalkov's dacha. June 27, 2001

In June 2001, Pita was invited to Russia to the XXIII Moscow International Film Festival, where she arrived accompanied. It is she who receives the honor of declaring the festival open. Together with other celebrity guests of the film festival, Pita visits Mikhalkov’s dacha and communicates with President Putin.

In June 2002, he accepted an offer from 20th Century Fox to star in the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, in which he plays the vampire Wilhelmina Harker. To match the image, she constantly wore fangs and special contact lenses. The film was followed by an avalanche of invitations to talk shows and filming for famous glossy magazines such as People

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In 2004, he accepted an offer to star in the lead role in the television film “Pretense and Cunning.” At the end of the same year, he took part in the filming of two episodes of the new FOX series "". And in the summer of 2005, the actress received a cameo role in a new large-scale film.

Opens the PSYCHT company selling sunglasses, watches and sneakers (later retired), and becomes the owner of the industrial company SweetLips. In 2004, Pita became the face of Serengeti, the largest manufacturer of sunglasses.

Personal life[ | ]

In her free time, Pita enjoys scuba diving, horse riding, cricket, painting and growing plants. Her father also instilled in her a love for old cars and, due to lack of garage space, kept old engines in her bedroom. She now has three: a 1958 Chevrolet, a 1957 Ford and a 1938 Dodge. Pita would love to expand her car fleet, but she doesn’t have time for that yet, because she repairs all her cars herself.

Upon arrival in Los Angeles, she met. Pita started dating him, and 3 months later they moved into the Hills' three-bedroom house in Hollywood. In February 2002, their son is born. They call him Marlow. Pita goes to the filming of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in Prague, Great Britain and Malta with her baby and her mother, who helps care for Marlowe while working on the film.

Now Pita lives on two continents, torn between home in Australia and work in the States. When asked whether the decision to settle in her homeland will hinder her career as an actress, she replies:

Movies

1991 becomes a turning point in the biography of the actress: Peta leaves Australia and settles in Los Angeles with the goal of building a modeling career. But after a couple of months he changes plans and decides to take acting seriously. The girl takes courses and hires an agent. She is offered small roles in television projects. Among them is the once successful Canadian-French series Highlander, where Wilson played the romantic heroine.

Having starred in 6 passable films, the actress decided to improve her skills and for this, in 1996, she headed to New York, where she was expected on Broadway. But along the way, she agrees to stop by to audition for the Canadian television series “Her Name was Nikita.” Confidently beating two hundred competitors, Peta drew the lucky ticket. This role will bring her fame all over the world.

The girl’s partner on the set was the charismatic Canadian Roy Dupuis. Their on-screen chemistry captivated the viewer and kept them glued to the screen for 5 seasons.

Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis

To convincingly play a female killer at the limit of human capabilities, Wilson carefully prepared for the role. Thanks to martial arts training, she was able to perform most of the stunts on her own, and there are plenty of them in every episode of the series. But what is especially touching is how the heroine protects her right to love and feel in conditions of total control and the strictest regulation of actions.

The series took over all North American channels and quickly spread to Europe. In Russia, Nikita was broadcast with high ratings for several years. On the wave of success, the actress comes to Moscow to open the 23rd Moscow Film Festival, where she meets with Vladimir Putin.

Peta Wilson and Vladimir Putin

Peta's next projects were not so bright, although she could afford to choose interesting roles. So, in between the seasons of Nikita, she starred in the thriller Mercy, where she became the main star, but the film received a low rating. Since then, films featuring the actress have been released approximately once a year with rare pauses.

In the drama Pretense and Cunning (2004), Wilson plays a desperate waitress who has lost her loved one and her livelihood. Therefore, she is aimed at cruel revenge. The last movie starring Peta Wilson was released in 2020. This is the film “The Dutch Murders”, where she played a role that was far from the first plan.

Not a single film starring the actress has been announced for 2020.

Career of actress Pita Wilson, filmography

In the early nineties, Peta Wilson moved to the United States, where she also began working as a fashion model. For some time, she was completely satisfied with this state of affairs. However, one fine day the girl realized that she wanted more. The talented Australian signed up for acting courses and began regularly attending various castings. Thus, very soon our today’s heroine managed to get several episodic roles in the series “Loser”, “Strangers”, “One of Us” and some others. One of the actress’s biggest successes at this stage of her career was her work in the series “Highlander,” where she played the role of the protagonist’s lover in one of the episodes of the television project.

The first roles finally confirmed Pita Wilson's desire to become an actress. In 1996, she packed all her things and took a plane ticket to New York. At that moment, she already had several good offers from Broadway theaters, but before leaving, her agent insisted on one more audition. Deciding that she had nothing to lose, the Australian went to the casting and unexpectedly won the main prize. Pita Wilson was approved for the role in the new series “Her Name was Nikita” and very soon her career as an actress reached a completely different height. Nikita Peta Wilson loses her suitcases in Moscow The spy television series became one of the main hits of the mid-nineties. The project was broadcast on many television channels in North America, and some time later gained enormous popularity in Eastern Europe as well. At this point, Pita Wilson became a true superstar. She was invited to various festivals, talk shows, and television news broadcasts. Between 1996 and 2001, photographs of the actress appeared in almost all major glossy publications in America. She was called the main sex symbol of the nineties, but with the end of the series, the actress’s popularity began to slowly decline.

In the period from 2000 to 2004, our today's heroine starred in several films, most of which, however, did not have much success with viewers. The only exception that proves the rule was the film “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” in which Sean Connery and Richard Roxberg became her on-screen partners. The film was a great success, and the heroine of Pita Wilson herself became very popular with viewers. On the wave of popularity, the actress received the main role in the series “Pretense and Cunning,” but this project again turned out to be not the most successful. After this, the actress played episodic roles in the television projects “Johnny Zero” and “Confusion,” and immediately after that she disappeared from television screens for some time.

Personal life

Peta Wilson was not officially married. Since 1997, she lived with her common-law husband Damian Harris in Los Angeles. The lovers were expecting children, and in 2002 their son Marlow was born. Soon after the birth of the boy, the couple separated.

Peta Wilson and her son Marlow

In 2007, Australian media reported that Peta Wilson was officially dating Aaron Jeffrey, an actor from New Zealand. However, already in 2008 the couple announced a breakup.

The beginning of an acting career

Wilson came to conquer Los Angeles in 1991. She started out acting in local theater and then moved on to small roles in independent films and cable television series.

In Los Angeles, Peta began a dizzying affair with Damian Harris, the son of the famous actor Richard Harris, and moved with him into a charming house. But love was not enough for Petya - she wanted fame. Therefore, the girl went to study at the Arthur Mendoza acting school. At this time, she starred in several television shows, and then she began to receive offers to try herself in films.

The role of Special Agent Nikita seemed tailor-made for the tomboyish, athlete, and driven personality that Peta Wilson has always been

Peta Wilson now

Peta now spends most of her time in her homeland, although she often visits the USA. She collects rare cars and even knows how to repair them. Loves to explore the underwater depths, ride horses, grow flowers and draw.

The actress is in the business of selling sunglasses. Her heroine Nikita had an impressive collection of these accessories, apparently, which is why the Serengeti company invited Peta to become their official spokesperson.

Peta Wilson in 2018

On Instagram and Twitter, Wilson’s admirers share photos of her in a swimsuit against the backdrop of stunning views of Australia and even individual training programs, but Peta’s personal life is not advertised.

She calls herself an actress, philanthropist and inventor. The woman adheres to proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle (the actress’s height is 178 cm and her weight is 70 kg). Peta Wilson has a dog. Her beloved Labrador Spiney underwent a major operation in December 2020, and the actress asked her fans for moral support.

Filmography

In the role of Nikita, t/s “Her name was Nikita”