Tottie Goldsmith

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Tottie Goldsmith

OAM
Tottie Goldsmith.jpg
Goldsmith in 2012
Born
Caroline Tottie Goldsmith

(1962-08-27) 27 August 1962 (age 59)
Australia
OccupationActress, singer
Years active1982–present
Children1
Websitewww.tottiegoldsmith.com.au

Tottie Goldsmith OAM (born 27 August 1962)[1] is an Australian actress and singer.

Television and radio work[]

In the early 1980s, Goldsmith acted in Australian soap operas The Young Doctors, Starting Out and Prisoner, and was a panelist on such programs as . She was known as a sex symbol[2] early in her career, and posed nude for art magazine Black+White in August 1996.

Goldsmith was the host of Sex/Life, a Network Ten program in the mid-1990s. She later acted in the drama series Fire, the police drama series Blue Heelers, and in The Secret Life of Us.[3]

In the late 1990s, she co-hosted a breakfast program on Melbourne radio station TTFM, replacing Nicky Buckley.

Goldsmith made various one-off appearances on Australian TV shows in the late 2000s, including Bert's Family Feud, Big Questions, Surprise Surprise Gotcha, Fat Pizza and . Then in 2009, Goldsmith appeared in Neighbours for three months as Cassandra Freedman.[4] She has also acted in some episodes of Aussie television show Swift and Shift Couriers.

Goldsmith performed the opening act at the 2010 Antenna Awards. She played Janet in a season of the New Rocky Horror Show, and participated in The Arena Spectacular of Grease the musical. Goldsmith appeared in the 2010 Australian film 'Ricky! The Movie' as the ex-girlfriend of Ricky T, and as a gangster's girlfriend in Underbelly.

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours Goldsmith was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to the community, and to the performing arts".[5]

Chantoozies[]

Main article: Chantoozies

From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists of the Australian band the Chantoozies.[6] They released four singles: "Witch Queen", "He's Gonna Step On You Again" "Wanna Be Up" "Kiss and Tell" and an album, Chantoozies.[7] Goldsmith left the Chantoozies to pursue a solo singing career before the band released their second album, Gild the Lily in 1991.

Other work[]

Goldsmith works as a marriage celebrant and has released two meditation and relaxation CDs. One album is for children that she joined forces with a child psychologist. With the other, after having a bout of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and struggling for years with sleep issues, she used her meditation skills with sleep specialist Chis Bunny to record a sleep CD that has been prescribed by doctors.

Personal life[]

Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and British-born actress Rona Newton-John. Her great-grandfather, the father of her grandmother Irene, was German-Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born.[8] Olivia Newton-John is her aunt, while bassist Brett Goldsmith is her elder brother and racecar driver Emerson Newton-John her half brother. Her other siblings are Fiona, Jason, Sasha, Briony, Charlie and Elizabeth.[9]

Goldsmith was married to skier Steven Lee and they had a daughter Layla. She became engaged to businessman James Mayo in January 2008.[10]

A long-term resident of St Kilda in Melbourne, she moved to northern New South Wales in 2018.

References[]

  1. ^ "About Tottie Goldsmith". Tottie Goldsmith official website. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. ^ "The Best Scripts Written For Older Women Are In Theatre". The Music. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Internet Movie Database entry on Tottie Goldsmith". IMDb. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
  4. ^ Dennehy, Luke (25 January 2009). "Neighbours boosts Tottie". Herald Sun. Australia: The Herald and Weekly Times. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  5. ^ "Caroline Tottie Goldsmith". Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. ^ Sarah (aka Princess.vinyl). "Discogs entry on Chantoozies". www.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
  7. ^ "Rate Your Music entry on Chantoozies". rateyourmusic.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
  8. ^ McMahon, Neil (25 May 2013). "Mother, model was much more than 'Olivia's older sister'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  9. ^ Wilmoth, Peter (19 September 2004). "Mr Nightlife". The Age. Australia. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
  10. ^ "Goldsmith's diamond is engaging". Herald Sun. 10 February 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.

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