Peta Gia Wilson is an Australian actress
and model. She is best known as Nikita
in the television series La Femme
Nikita.
Biography 
= Early life =
Wilson was born in Sydney on 18 November
1970. She is the daughter of the caterer
Karlene White Wilson and Darcy Wilson, a
former warrant officer in the Australian
Army. She spent several years in Papua
New Guinea, when her father was
stationed there. Her parents' marriage
came to an end in 1982.
= Career =
Wilson worked first as a model in
Australia and in Europe, before she
moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to study
acting with Arthur Mendoza at the Actors
Circle Theatre and with Tom Waits at the
TomKat Repertory Group. After some
education in acting, Wilson was hired
for some small roles in independent
films, such as in Loser and in One of
Our Own. Then, in 1996, Wilson was
preparing to continue her studies at an
acting school in New York City, but she
decided to audition first for a new
television show to be produced for the
USA cable TV channel in North America.
From a field of just over 200 aspiring
actresses who auditioned for the
starring role, the new program's
producers chose to offer the job to
Wilson, and she accepted. This new show
was called La Femme Nikita, based on the
French action thriller movie Nikita.
Each episode was one hour long, and the
series was produced by a combination of
Canadian and American companies. The
show ran for five years and 96 episodes
on the USA network. There were 22
episodes per season for four years, and
another eight episodes in its fifth and
final TV year. Most of the episodes of
La Femme Nikita were filmed in and
around the city of Toronto, Ontario.
Wilson's co-stars in this TV series were
the actors Roy Dupuis, Don Francks,
Alberta Watson and Eugene Robert Glazer,
and for her acting in La Femme Nikita,
Wilson was nominated twice for the
annual Gemini Award for "Best
Performance by An Actress in a
Continuing Leading Dramatic Role",
though she did not win.
In 2001 Wilson took part in the
International Film Festival in Moscow,
where she met with Russian president
Vladimir Putin, who confessed to being a
fan of hers. Wilson collaborated with
the Scottish actor Sean Connery in
2002–3 during the production of The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She
played the role of the vampire Mina
Harker, and Connery played Allan
Quatermain. She also portrayed real-life
actress Anny Ondra in the television
movie "Joe and Max".
During 2006, Wilson had a small role in
the movie Superman Returns as the
character "Bobbie-Faye", a spokeswoman
for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration of the United States. In
2013 she received the Best Actress Award
at the Cinerockom International Film
Festival for her performance as CIA
spook Marla Criswell in a short film
called "Liberator".
In 2012 she launched a lingerie label
named Wylie Wilson, with a flagship
store in Los Angeles, California.
= Personal life =
Wilson lived with her long-time
boyfriend, director Damian Harris, from
1997 until their separation in 2002.
They are the parents of one son, Marlowe
Harris-Wilson, who was born in February
2002. Presently she resides win Venice
Beach california with her partner John
Grosso
Filmography 
Awards and nominations 
Bibliography 
Heyn, Christopher. "A Conversation with
Peta Wilson." Inside Section One:
Creating and Producing TV's La Femme
Nikita. Introduction by Peta Wilson. Los
Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press,
2006. 66–74. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9.
In-depth conversation with Peta Wilson
about her role as Nikita on La Femme
Nikita, as well as her approach to
acting.
Connolley, Dawn. "Nuthin' Fancy Luv, I'm
Australian." La Femme Peta: The
Unauthorized Biography of Peta Wilson.
Toronto, ECW Press, 2000. 1–32. ISBN
1-55022-385-2. Unauthorized biography of
Peta Wilson culled from various
pre-published sources.
Edwards, Ted: "La Femme Nikita X-Posed:
The Unauthorized Biography of Peta
Wilson and Her On-Screen Character".
Prima Lifestyles, 1998, ISBN
0-7615-1454-6.
References 
External links 
Peta Wilson at the Internet Movie
Database
petawilson.ru
Peta Wilson discussion board
Peta Wilson's official fanpage
Wylie Wilson official website
