Toni Collette , whose breakthrough role was the socially awkward title character in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding , has never shied away from playing women who downplay their attractiveness. In Curtis Hanson’s comedy/drama In Her Shoes , which had its world premiere at TIFF in 2005, the Australian actress starred as a slightly dowdy, buttoned-up lawyer who finds herself at odds with her flashier, if unreliable, sister, played by Cameron Diaz , as well as a long-lost grandmother portrayed by Shirley MacLaine.

But as Collette walked the red carpet at Roy Thompson Hall, she looked every bit as glamorous as her two co-stars. Collette, MacLaine testified as they made press rounds for the film, “is one of the best there is. Really. So much so that her natural beauty and glamour gets dwarfed

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