- Was a model before becoming an actress.
- Despite the fame, Peta remains true to the qualities instilled in her during her unusual childhood upbringing.
- Peta grew up in the wilds of New Guinea, and part of her has never left. She's got this incredible combination of rawness, vulnerability, sensuality and unpredictability - equal parts of all four of those things.
- As an army brat, Peta quickly learned how to fit in with many different types of people and in many different situations. Changing schools every six months, Peta learned to adapt her personality to be accepted in each new location and to make new friends.
- Everyone who sees her says, 'My God, there's something special about her.'
- Ron Perth, Former President USA Network said, We had a casting session (for La Femme Nikita) in my office, and she was just spectacular. We knew we had a star.
- She has earned 2 Gemini nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her performance on the weekly series LA FEMME NIKITA.
- Peta meditates, practices yoga, gets acupuncture and takes all kinds of alternative medicines to keep her body in balance. At age 17, she had a year long battle with anorexia.
- In 1999, moved into a Brooklyn Heights, NY apt. building, which also includes co-op owners such as producer Andrew S. Karsch and 'O.J.Simpson's' former attorney 'Barry Scheck'.
- She enjoys scuba diving, horseback riding, swimming, cricket, painting and gardening
- She appeared in underwear along with Yasmine Bleeth, Alyssa Milano, Melissa Joan Hart, Garcelle Beauvais, Carmen Electra, Jamie Luner, and Jeri Ryan on the cover of, and inside the October 1997 issue of Details magazine.
Quotes- I never say no.
- "I really don't have any fear. I feel that fear gets in the way of any kind of growth, so I kinda look at life like, 'Well if you don't step forward, or jump off the cliff, your never going fly. And if you step backwards, it's always going to be there, so you might as well go for it. You've got nothing to lose, only to gain."
- "I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans. "
- "I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are. "
- "I was pulled up in an assembly in front of the entire school by one of the nuns, to be made an example of, and she bent me over in front of 600 students, I was the new girl - I only knew two, bent me over and whipped me on my little pantaloons. Most embarrassing, it was very tough."
- I went to a Catholic girls school and I used to get whipped and it wasn`t fun.
- "If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy. "
- I'm actually quite conservative.
- "I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them. "
- I've always had a really strong identity -- the same one since I was about 11. My mother says I even came out of the womb working the room.
- "Look, I'm loud, outrageous and honest. I've got nothing to hide, so I've gotten into trouble. But I won't change. If people are going to judge me, that's fine. "
- "My future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids. "
- "Whenever I do a role, I always look at what animal would they be. 'Cause when you look at animals, there's no dialogue. There's nothing. You're purely looking at behavior. "
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