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Peta Wilson: La Femme Nikita
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As the very hot commodity of the TV spy/action/thriller show, La Femme Nikita, Australian actress Peta Wilson is one of the most popular hardbodied blonde bombshells around. Beginning as a model, her being cast in La Femme Nikita has caused her immense popularity as the show focuses on a strong woman with sense and purpose who ... happens to be beautiful and athletic.
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Peta Gia Wilson (born November 18, 1970) is an Australian actress and model. She beat out 200 other actresses for the starring role in the Canadian television action series Nikita (U.S. title: La Femme Nikita) playing the role of Nikita, codenamed Josephine, a martial arts trained covert agent. The show was based on Nikita, a Luc Besson movie of the same name.
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Wilson was ready to depart for New York to continue her acting studies when her agent convinced her to audition for the lead role in a new action program based on Luc Besson’s popular French action-drama, “La Femme Nikita” (1991). Wilson landed the role, and was soon launched into the pop culture stratosphere, thanks to the show’s overwhelmingly positive reception with American audiences. “Nikita” was the top-rated program on American basic cable for its first two seasons, and though critics could claim that the key to the show’s success was its complex story structure – which had trained assassin Nikita fighting both enemy forces and nefarious elements within her own agency – the fans clearly saw Wilson’s physical beauty, athleticism, and soulful acting as the key to its appeal. For her turn as Nikita, Wilson was twice nominated for a Gemini Award (in 1998 and 1999), as well as for a Saturn Award in 1997.
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After a bit part in Vanishing Point, Peta was cast in her breakthrough role in 1997, as the title role in the series La Femme Nikita (a.k.a. Nikita). As Nikita/Josephine, a French superspy, Peta has helped make the Canadian-produced show one of the most successful in the US as well.
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While shooting La Femme Nikita in Toronto, Canada, Peta shares an apartment with her grandmother, in addition to her home in the Hollywood Hills. She is no longer dating Harris, although she was linked to Russell Crowe (then again, who hasn't?).
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