Peta Wilson

Peta Wilson is an Australian actress, model and lingerie designer. Born in Sydney, she started out modeling in Australia and Europe, then settled in the United States in 1991 and trained at the Actors Circle Theatre. Early screen parts came in independent movies including The Sadness of Sex (1995) and Naked Jane (1995). She is best known for the title part in La Femme Nikita (1997), a USA cable series she joined after auditioning against more than 200 hopefuls; it ran five seasons and earned her two Gemini Award nominations. She later appeared in the thriller Mercy and the Showtime miniseries A Girl Thing (2001). In Joe and Max (2002), a television movie, she was Anny Ondra. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) she was Mina Harker. Other credits include the miniseries Two Twisted (2006), Superman Returns (2006), Beautiful (2009), Troppo (2022) and Shane Black's Play Dirty (2025). She also launched the lingerie label Wylie Wilson in 2012.