Actor: Toni Collette

Toni Collette broke through in Muriel’s Wedding, gaining substantial weight for it at twenty-one, and has since worked almost entirely in American and British productions with an accent nobody questions.

She was nominated for The Sixth Sense, playing a mother who believes her son without understanding him, and the car scene at the end is the emotional payoff the twist depends on.

Hereditary is the performance widely regarded as one of the great Academy omissions, particularly the dinner table scene, which is sustained rage of a kind horror rarely asks for.

Little Miss Sunshine, About a Boy and Knives Out show the comic range, and she won an Emmy for United States of Tara.