Peita Margaret Toppano was born on 1951 and known as Peta Toppano is a British-born Australian actress, singer and dancer.
15 Facts About Peta Toppano
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Peta Toppano is most widely known for her roles in television soap opera's including The Young Doctors as Dr Gail Henderson, Prisoner, as Karen Travers, Return to Eden as Jilly Stewart, and briefly Home and Away as Helen Poulos.
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Peta Toppano was born in Finsbury Park, London, England in 1951, and grew up in Cammeray, New South Wales.
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Peta Toppano returned to Australia to study drama at the Ensemble Theatre under director Hayes Gordon.
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Peta Toppano played Kate in the ABC miniseries The Paper Man with Oliver Tobias, John Bach and Rebecca Gilling, and starred with John Waters and Cybill Shepherd in the 1991 miniseries Which Way Home.
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Peta Toppano played a recast Jilly Stewart in Return to Eden and starred in Home and Away as Helen Poulos.
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Peta Toppano was nominated for an AFI Award for her work in Street Hero, directed by Michael Pattinson with Vince Colosimo.
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Peta Toppano received two Logie nominations for her work in Fields of Fire as Gina Agostini, and Uke in Water Under the Bridge.
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Peta Toppano she played Juanita in Sue Woolf's multi-award-winning novel Leaning Towards Infinity in 1997, adapted for stage at the Ensemble Theatre.
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Peta Toppano starred in a one-woman play written by Heather Nimmo, directed by Leith Taylor called One Small Step.
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Peta Toppano played Countess De Lage in The Women by Clare Boothe Luce with students from Theatre Nepean, directed by Mary-Ann Gifford.
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Peta Toppano played Beth in Merrily We Roll Along for the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Peta Toppano played Fantine in Les Miserables for the Cameron Mackintosh organisation in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, Diana Morales in A Chorus Line for two years in Sydney and Melbourne.
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Peta Toppano played Sonia in They're Playing Our Song in the UK, and celebrated her 21st birthday in Godspell.
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Peta Toppano played Claudia in the musical Nine, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Monica in I Love My Wife, Roberta in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Leonarda in Love and Magic in Mama's Kitchen at the Belvoir St Theatre directed by Teresa Crea.