Toni Collette plays Muriel, the shyest member of a bored and bulbous family living in Porpoise Spit.

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McGregor plays another rock star - who strips on stage - in the movie, and Muriel's Wedding star Toni Collette plays his wife.

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Unlovely Rose (Toni Collette) is a lawyer living alone in Philadelphia.

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Great actresses like Holly Hunter, Glenn Close, Laura Linney and Toni Collette have been doing some of their best work in years on shows like Damages and The Big C.

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But as people from the well-made, not-very-well-seen TV shows kept picking up awards Kristin Chenoweth for the cancelled-by-ABC Pushing Daisies, Toni Collette for Showtime's The United States of Tara, even Michael J.

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It also stars Toni Collette as Cole's mother.

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With Toni Collette and Eddie Izzard.

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On the indie front, "The Way, Way Back" (July 5), a PG-13 coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell and Toni Collette, is being advertised as "from the studio that brought you 'Little Miss Sunshine, '" which also starred Mr. Carell and Ms. Collette.

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Based on Jennifer Weiner's best-selling novel, the film is excellent when portraying the lifelong disconnect between two loving sisters: Maggie (Cameron Diaz), a kleptomaniac with no fixed employment and a fondness for one-night stands, and Rose (Toni Collette), who has nothing in her life but her job in a law firm.

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