VIP Panel Guest - Peta Wilson
Hello everyone! The ReCon Co-Chairs have HUGE news to bring you tonight! We are so very EXCITED to announce our final VIP Panel Guest as PETA WILSON!!! We all know Peta as the magnetic Nikita, the focus of our La Femme Nikita series. ReCon is so fortunate to have Peta join us. What a way to round out our VIP Panel Guests, all of the remaining lead actors will be on stage together for a wonderful 20 year celebration of our favorite series! Biography: Peta Gia Wilson was born in Sydney, Australia, to a military family. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea, when her father was stationed there. She worked first as a model in Australia and in Europe, before she moved to Los Angeles to study acting with Arthur Mendoza at the Actors Circle Theatre and with Tom Waits at the TomKat Repertory Group. After five years of education, Peta was hired for some small roles in independent films, such as in Naked Jane and Loser. In 1996, she was preparing to continue her studies at an acting school in New York City, but decided to audition first for a new television show to be produced for the USA Network cable TV channel. From a field of just over 200 aspiring actresses who auditioned for the starring role, the new program's producers chose to offer the job to Wilson, and she accepted a role in La Femme Nikita. For her acting in La Femme Nikita, Wilson was nominated twice for the Gemini Award for "Best Performance by An Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role”. In 2001 Wilson took part in the International Film Festival in Moscow, where she met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who confessed to being a fan of hers. She portrayed real-life actress Anny Ondra in the television movie Joe and Max and also starred as the vampire Mina Harker in the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. She also appeared on an Australian TV mystery anthology drama Two Twisted and had a small role in the movie Superman Returns as the character Bobbie-Faye, a spokeswoman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States. She starred in an Australian independent film Beautiful and guest-starred on CSI: Miami and The Finder. In 2013, she received the Best Actress Award at the Cinerockom International Film Festival for her performance as CIA agent Marla Criswell in a short film Liberator. In 2012, she launched a lingerie label named Wylie Wilson with a flagship store in Venice, California. She has a son Marlowe.
