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| Born | Caroline Goldsmith 27 August 1962 Melbourne, Australia |
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| Years active | 1982–present |
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| Children | 1 |
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| Website | tottiegoldsmith |
Caroline "Tottie" Goldsmith OAM (born 27 August 1962 [1] ) is an Australian actress and singer. She was a founding member of the Chantoozies, a pop group formed in 1986. [2]
In the early 1980s, Caroline Goldsmith acted in the Australian television series The Young Doctors , Starting Out , Prisoner , Saturdee , and The Henderson Kids . She made a guest appearance on a 1989 episode of Mission: Impossible , which was filmed in Australia.
In the 1990s Goldsmith hosted Sex/Life, a Network Ten program about sexual health, and starred in the drama series Fire . [3] She was also a panellist on such programs as Beauty and the Beast and All-Star Squares .
Goldsmith made various guest appearances on Australian TV shows in the 2000s, including The Secret Life of Us , Bert's Family Feud , Big Questions , Surprise Surprise Gotcha , Pizza and Celebrity Singing Bee , and had a three episode run on Blue Heelers . In 2009, Goldsmith appeared on Neighbours for three months as Cassandra Freedman. [4] She acted in two episodes of the Australian television show Swift and Shift Couriers . She appeared in the 2010 Australian film, Ricky! The Movie, as the ex-girlfriend of Ricky T, and as a gangster's girlfriend in the 2011 television film Underbelly Files: Infiltration . She also had a supporting role in the 2012 Jack Irish telefilm Bad Debts.
In 2022, Goldsmith appeared on the 8th season of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! [5] [6]
From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists of the Australian band the Chantoozies. [7] They released four singles: "Witch Queen", "He's Gonna Step On You Again", "Wanna Be Up", "Kiss and Tell", and an album, Chantoozies . [8] Goldsmith left the Chantoozies to pursue a solo singing career before the band released their second album, Gild the Lily in 1991. She later rejoined when the group temporarily reformed in 2006 for the Countdown Spectacular concert series, and more permanently in 2012. [9] She again left the band in 2020. [10]
With Chantoozies member Eve von Bibra, Goldsmith also performed in the duo the Toozies. [11] The Toozies performed the opening act at the 2010 Antenna Awards.
On 8 January 2023, Goldsmith returned to music after a 3-year break, performing in St. Kilda with the "3XY Allstars". 30 July that year would also see her invite former Chantoozies bandmate Ally Fowler to the stage to cover her aunt Olivia Newton-John's "You're the One That I Want", her first performance with a Chantoozie since leaving the band.
In the late 1990s, Goldsmith co-hosted a breakfast program on Melbourne radio station TTFM, replacing Nicky Buckley. She played Janet in a season of the New Rocky Horror Show , and participated in an arena version of the musical Grease .
Goldsmith works as a marriage celebrant and has released two meditation and relaxation albums, Unwind Your Mind (2004) and Falling Asleep (2005). After having a bout of chronic fatigue syndrome and struggling for years with sleep issues, Goldsmith used her meditation skills in partnership with sleep specialist Chris Bunney to record Falling Asleep, which has since been prescribed by doctors.[ citation needed ] In 2007, she collaborated with a child psychologist on A Sleep Story, which is aimed at children.
She was known as a sex symbol early in her career, [12] and posed nude for art magazine Black+White in August 1996.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Ricky! The Movie | Ricky's ex-girlfriend | Film |
| 2011 | Underbelly Files: Infiltration | Sara Herlihy | TV movie |
| 2012 | Jack Irish: Bad Debts | Jackie Pixley | TV movie |
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Starting Out | Trixie Sheldon | 85 episodes |
| The Young Doctors | Toni Sheffield | 9 episodes | |
| The Darryl Somers Show | Nurse | 1 episode | |
| 1984 | Prisoner | Gloria Payne | 8 episodes |
| Special Squad | Fiona | 1 episode | |
| 1985 | The Henderson Kids [13] | Glynnis Wheeler | 8 episodes |
| 1986 | Prime Time | Jamie | TV Series |
| Saturdee [14] | Maggie | 10 episodes | |
| 1989 | Mission: Impossible | Princess Elaine | TV series |
| 1990 | G.P | Bernadette Wentworth | 1 episode |
| 1991 | All Together Now | Charlie | 1 episode |
| Pugwall | Miss Arnott | 1 episode | |
| 1994 | The Intruder | Vicki | |
| 1990s | Sex/Life | Host | TV series |
| 1996 | Fire [15] | Firefighter Marilyn "Tex" Perez | 13 episodes |
| Twisted Tales | Vanessa Condor | 1 episode | |
| Shark Bay | TV Series | ||
| 1999 | Law of the Land | Sarah | 1 episode |
| Beauty and the Beast | Panellist | TV series | |
| 1999 | All-Star Squares | Contestant | TV series |
| Bert's Family Feud | Contestant | TV series | |
| Big Questions | Panellist | TV series | |
| Celebrity Singing Bee | Contestant | TV series | |
| 2002 | Signs of Life | Susan | |
| 2003 | Visitors | Casey | |
| 2001-03 | Pizza | Kinky | TV series |
| 2003 | House of Bulger | ||
| 2001-04 | Stingers | Rowena / Olivia | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Blue Heelers | TV series, 3 episodes | |
| 2005 | The Secret Life of Us | Mrs Corman | TV series |
| Life | Anita | TV Movie | |
| 2007 | Surprise Surprise Gotcha | TV series | |
| 2008 | Canal Road | Natalie | 1 episode |
| Swift and Shift Couriers [16] | Andrea Walsh & Fashion Woman | TV series, 2 episodes | |
| 2009 | Neighbours | Cassandra Freedman | 33 episodes |
| 2010 | Satisfaction | Ava | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Underbelly Files: Infiltration [17] | Sara | TV Movie |
| Housos [18] | Janelle | 1 episode | |
| The Fat Lady Swings | Scarlett | Short | |
| 2012 | Jack Irish: Bad Debts [19] | Jackie | TV Movie |
| 2014 | Start Opinions Exit | The Oracle | |
| Fat Pizza v Housos | Dino's Girlfriend | ||
| 2015 | The Doctor Blake Mysteries | Jacqueline | 1 episode |
| 2019 | The Taverna | Rebecca | |
| 2021 | Rage | Elizabeth Bennett | |
| 2022 | A Current Affair [20] | Self | 1 episode |
| 2022 | Talking Prisoner [21] | Self | Podcast Series 1 episode |
| 2022 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! [22] | Contestant | TV series, Season 8 |
Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and British-born actress Rona Newton-John (1941–2013). Her great-grandfather, the father of her grandmother Irene, was German-Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born. [23]
Olivia Newton-John was her maternal 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. [24]
Goldsmith was married to skier Steven Lee and they had a daughter, Layla (born 27 August 1993, the exact day of Goldsmith's 31st birthday). She became engaged to businessman James Mayo in January 2008. [25]
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". [26]
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