Tottie Goldsmith
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Tottie Goldsmith is an Australian actress and singer.
actress Rona Newton-John
. Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born
. Olivia Newton-John
is her aunt, bass guitarist Brett Goldsmith her elder brother, and racecar driver Emerson Newton-John her half brother.
, Starting Out
and Prisoner
, and was a panelist on such programs as All Star Squares.
She was known as a sex symbol early in her career, and posed nude for art magazine Black+White
in August 1996.
She was the host of Sex/Life (a Network Ten
program in the mid-1990s), endearing her to the teenage male population. She later acted in drama series Fire
, in police drama series Blue Heelers
, and in The Secret Life of Us
.
In the late 1990s she was co-host of the breakfast program on Melbourne radio station TTFM
replacing Nicky Buckley
.
Goldsmith appeared on Bert's Family Feud
on Monday 20 August 2006, Big Questions
on Thursday 26 October 2006 and "ABBAmania" on Sunday 12 November 2006. She also appeared on Channel 9
's Surprise Surprise Gotcha
on 23 October 2007. On 17 July 2008 she was a contestant on the struggling Channel 9 series Celebrity Singing Bee, where despite being defeated she showed she has plenty of sex appeal.
In 2009 she did a 3 month stint in serial Neighbours
as Cassandra Freedman
.
Goldsmith performed the opening act at the 2010 Antenna Awards
which was broadcast live on Channel 31
in Australia.
Tottie Goldsmith appears in the 2010 Australian film 'Ricky! the movie' playing the ex-girlfriend of one hit wonder 'Ricky T'.
2011 Tottie was reveired in her role as gangster girlfriend in Underbelly's Infiltration and has been recognised by her peers while attending 2009 & 2010 Masterclasses with Ivanna Chubbuck and currently continuing her studying at 16th Street Acting Academy.
, her brother Brett Goldsmith was their bass guitarist, songwriter and programmer. They released three singles "Witch Queen", "He's Gonna Step On You Again
" and "Wanna Be Up" and an album Chantoozies by 1988. Goldsmith left to pursue a solo singing career before Chantoozies released a second album, Gild the Lily in 1991. Most recently Tottie and the girls opened Clipsal in Adelaide to a excited crowd of 35,000 fans. The girls are currently touring around Australia.
Both of which have been publicly recorded as inducing suspended animation. In 2005, she appeared in a 15-second television commercial for Hyundai
, and has done charity work. She was also a performer at the annual Starry Starry Night gala in Melbourne in November 2005.
In 2010 she took the leap into business, taking an executive role in Unbooked, whilst also playing the part of Unbooked brand ambassador.
Biography
Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and British-bornUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
actress Rona Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
. Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born
Max Born
Max Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
. Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
is her aunt, bass guitarist Brett Goldsmith her elder brother, and racecar driver Emerson Newton-John her half brother.
Television and radio work
In the early 1980s Goldsmith acted in Australian soap operas The Young DoctorsThe Young Doctors
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March...
, Starting Out
Starting Out
Starting Out is an Australian television soap opera made for the Nine Network by the Reg Grundy Organisation in 1983.The series was the network's replacement for The Young Doctors and was set at a medical college with an emphasis on young people getting their first experience of living away from...
and Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
, and was a panelist on such programs as All Star Squares.
She was known as a sex symbol early in her career, and posed nude for art magazine Black+White
Black+White
Black+White was a bimonthly Australian magazine published by Studio Magazines that debuted in the summer of 1992. For a period it was also known as Black+White magazine....
in August 1996.
She was the host of Sex/Life (a Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
program in the mid-1990s), endearing her to the teenage male population. She later acted in drama series Fire
Fire (TV series)
Fire is an Australian television series transmitted on the Seven Network between 1995 and 1996. It was shown in the UK & Ireland on Sky One. In 1999 and 2000, the series was shown on Channel 5.The series explored the lives of a platoon of firefighters...
, in police drama series Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
, and in The Secret Life of Us
The Secret Life of Us
The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK...
.
In the late 1990s she was co-host of the breakfast program on Melbourne radio station TTFM
3DB
Mix 101.1 is a radio station broadcasting in Melbourne, Australia. Its target demographic is the under 25-54 yr old age group. Mix 101.1 is part of the Australian Radio Mix Network and broadcasts on the 101.1 MHz frequency...
replacing Nicky Buckley
Nicky Buckley
Nicole Maree Louise Buckley-Bingham is an Australian television presenter and model.-Sale of the Century:Buckley broke into television in her role as co-host of Sale of the Century in the mid-late 1990s...
.
Goldsmith appeared on Bert's Family Feud
Bert's Family Feud
Bert's Family Feud was the third Australian version of the game show Family Feud. The series was produced by Grundy Television in conjunction with FremantleMedia. It was broadcast on the Nine Network and hosted by Bert Newton...
on Monday 20 August 2006, Big Questions
Big Questions
Big Questions is an Australian television show which is produced and broadcast on the Nine Network, with Jules Lund as host. It commenced broadcasting on 19 October 2006. It shouldn't be confused with the Sydney Morning Herald column of the same name in the Saturday edition that poses sometimes...
on Thursday 26 October 2006 and "ABBAmania" on Sunday 12 November 2006. She also appeared on Channel 9
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
's Surprise Surprise Gotcha
Surprise Surprise Gotcha
Surprise Surprise Downblouse is an Australian erotic hidden camera practical joke television series. Hosted by radio personalities Matt Tilley and Jackie O, and featuring another radio personality, Richard Marsland] as the 'downblouse referee', the series commenced on the Nine Network on 18...
on 23 October 2007. On 17 July 2008 she was a contestant on the struggling Channel 9 series Celebrity Singing Bee, where despite being defeated she showed she has plenty of sex appeal.
In 2009 she did a 3 month stint in serial Neighbours
Neighbours
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...
as Cassandra Freedman
Cassandra Freedman
Cassandra "Sass" Freedman is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Tottie Goldsmith. Cassandra is the mother of Donna, Tegan and Simon, she first appeared on-screen on 10 February 2009...
.
Goldsmith performed the opening act at the 2010 Antenna Awards
Antenna Awards
The Antenna Awards are an annual award ceremony that recognises outstanding community television programs broadcast on Australia's Channel 31 stations. Since their inception in 2004, the Antennas have been traditionally hosted by C31 Melbourne, and are held at a gala ceremony at Federation Square...
which was broadcast live on Channel 31
Channel 31
Channel 31 is the frequency currently reserved for free-to-air community television stations in the major Australian capital cities.Each station is a not-for-profit entity and is subject to specific provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act...
in Australia.
Tottie Goldsmith appears in the 2010 Australian film 'Ricky! the movie' playing the ex-girlfriend of one hit wonder 'Ricky T'.
2011 Tottie was reveired in her role as gangster girlfriend in Underbelly's Infiltration and has been recognised by her peers while attending 2009 & 2010 Masterclasses with Ivanna Chubbuck and currently continuing her studying at 16th Street Acting Academy.
Chantoozies
From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists in Australian band ChantooziesChantoozies
Chantoozies were an Australian pop group active from 1986 to 1991. The band featured four female singers: Eve von Bibra, Angie La Bozzetta, Ally Fowler and Tottie Goldsmith; and four male musicians: Brett Goldsmith , Scott Griffiths , Frank McKoy and David Reyne...
, her brother Brett Goldsmith was their bass guitarist, songwriter and programmer. They released three singles "Witch Queen", "He's Gonna Step On You Again
He's Gonna Step On You Again
"He's Gonna Step On You Again" was a hit single, co-written by Christos Demetriou and performed by John Kongos in 1971.It is cited in the Guinness Book of Records as being the first song to have used a sample, however, according to the sleeve note of the CD reissue of the Kongos album, it is...
" and "Wanna Be Up" and an album Chantoozies by 1988. Goldsmith left to pursue a solo singing career before Chantoozies released a second album, Gild the Lily in 1991. Most recently Tottie and the girls opened Clipsal in Adelaide to a excited crowd of 35,000 fans. The girls are currently touring around Australia.
Other work
Goldsmith released two meditation and relaxation CDs called "Unwind Your Mind" and "Falling Asleep".Both of which have been publicly recorded as inducing suspended animation. In 2005, she appeared in a 15-second television commercial for Hyundai
Hyundai
Hyundai ) is a global conglomerate company, part of the Korean chaebol, that was founded in South Korea by one of the most famous businessmen in Korean history: Chung Ju-yung...
, and has done charity work. She was also a performer at the annual Starry Starry Night gala in Melbourne in November 2005.
In 2010 she took the leap into business, taking an executive role in Unbooked, whilst also playing the part of Unbooked brand ambassador.