Tottie Goldsmith

Tottie Goldsmith OAM
Goldsmith in 2012
Born	Caroline Goldsmith (1962-08-27) 27 August 1962 (age 62) Melbourne, Australia
Occupations	Actress singer
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Steven Lee ​ (divorced)​
Children	1
Relatives	Olivia Newton-John (aunt) Brett Goldsmith (brother) Emerson Newton-John (half-brother)
Website	tottiegoldsmith.com.au

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]

Career

Television

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]

Music

Main article: Chantoozies

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][deprecated source]} 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.

Other work

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.

Filmography

Film

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

Television

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

Personal life

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-British physicist, mathematician 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]

Honours

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]

References

1. "About Tottie Goldsmith". Tottie Goldsmith official website. Archived from the original on 5 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
2. "Her Story". Tottie Goldsmith. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
3. "Internet Movie Database entry on Tottie Goldsmith". IMDb. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
4. Dennehy, Luke (25 January 2009). "Neighbours boosts Tottie". Herald Sun. Australia: The Herald and Weekly Times. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
5. "Tottie Goldsmith | I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!". 10 play. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
6. Tune.Media (10 January 2022). "I'm A Celebrity 2022: Tottie Goldsmith Leaps Into The Aussie Jungle - Tune.media". Retrieved 4 September 2022.
7. Sarah (aka Princess.vinyl). "Discogs entry on Chantoozies". www.discogs.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
8. "Rate Your Music entry on Chantoozies". rateyourmusic.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2008.
9. Jonathon Moran. "Chantoozies trimmed to a trio as Angie La Bozzetta hangs up stilettos". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
10. "Chantoozies Bio". Chantoozies.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
11. Suzanne Carbonne (15 August 2010). "Working 9 to 9 is the name of Gillard's game". The Age. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
12. "The Best Scripts Written For Older Women Are In Theatre". The Music. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
13. "Australian Television: The Henderson Kids: Cast: Sereis 1".
14. "Australian Television: Saturdee".
15. "Australian Television: Fire: Series 2 cast".
16. "Australian Television: Swift and Shift Couriers: Episode guide: Series 1".
17. "Airdate: Underbelly Files: Lucifer / Infiltration / Man Who Got Away | TV Tonight". 28 January 2011.
18. "Australian Television: Housos: Episode guide: Series 1".
19. "Australian Television: Jack Irish: Episode guide: Bad Debts".
20. Olivia Newton-John's niece reveals final farewell to beloved aunt | A Current Affair, 9 August 2022, retrieved 27 December 2023
21. Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 36 Interview with Tottie Goldsmith (Inmate Gloria Payne), 8 April 2022, retrieved 27 December 2023
22. "I'm a Celebrity 2022: Tottie Goldsmith Leaps into the Aussie Jungle". 10 January 2022.
23. McMahon, Neil (25 May 2013). "Mother, model was much more than 'Olivia's older sister'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
24. Wilmoth, Peter (19 September 2004). "Mr Nightlife". The Age. Australia. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
25. "Goldsmith's diamond is engaging". Herald Sun. 10 February 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
26. "Caroline Tottie Goldsmith". Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 8 June 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Tottie Goldsmith at IMDb