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Tottie Goldsmith (born Caroline Goldsmith on 27 August 1962) is an Australian actress and singer.

smith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and English actress Rhona Newton-John. Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born. Her aunt is Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
, and the bass guitarist Brett Goldsmith is her elder brother.

smith played various roles in Australian soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
s such as The Young Doctors
The 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....
, 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 home and leading independent lives....
 and Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a List of fictional prisons women's prison....
, and was a panelist on such programs as All Star Squares.






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Tottie Goldsmith (born Caroline Goldsmith on 27 August 1962) is an Australian actress and singer.

Biography


Early years

Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and English actress Rhona Newton-John. Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born. Her aunt is Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
, and the bass guitarist Brett Goldsmith is her elder brother.

Television roles

Goldsmith played various roles in Australian soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
s such as The Young Doctors
The 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....
, 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 home and leading independent lives....
 and Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a List of fictional prisons women's prison....
, and was a panelist on such programs as All Star Squares. She was the host of Sex/Life (a Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....
 program in the mid-1990s) and has more recently 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 police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 drama
Drama

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 series
Television program

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 Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is a long-running Australian Police procedural series which depicted the lives of the police officers stationed at the fictional Mt....
, 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, Victoria, 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....
.. She will be playing Donna, Simon and Tegan Freedman's mother on Neighbours
Neighbours

Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
 in 2009.

Chantoozies

From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists in Australian band Chantoozies
Chantoozies

Chantoozies were an Australian Pop music 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 chart-topper single , songwriter and performed by John Kongos in 1971.It is cited in the Guinness World Records as being the first ever song to have used a sampling , however according to the sleeve note of the CD reissue of the Kongos album, it is actually a tape loop of African drumming; and the...
" 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.

Later career

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 the early 1990s. In the late 1990s she was co-host of the breakfast program on Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
 radio station TTFM
3DB

Mix 101.1 is a commercial radio station in Melbourne, Australia and is owned by the Australian Radio Network . The station was formerly known as 3DB, broadcasting on 1026 kHz AM, before converting to FM in 1990....
 replacing Nicky Buckley
Nicky Buckley

Nicole Maree Louise Buckley-Bingham is an Australian television presenter and model.Buckley is one of the most recognised faces in Australia, appearing in magazines as a top model for many years before breaking into television where she is still a household name namely for her role as co-host of Sale of the Century in the mid-late 199...
.

Goldsmith released two meditation and relaxation CDs called "Unwind Your Mind" and "Falling Asleep". In 2005, she appeared in a 15-second television commercial for Hyundai
Hyundai

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, and currently does charity work. She was also a performer at the annual "Starry Starry Night" Gala in Melbourne in November.

Goldsmith appeared on Bert's Family Feud
Bert's Family Feud

Bert's Family Feud is an Australian version of the game show Family Feud. The series was produced by Reg Grundy Organisation in conjunction with FremantleMedia and was broadcast on the Nine Network, with TV veteran Bert Newton as host....
 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....
 on Thursday 26 October 2006 and "ABBAmania" on Sunday 12 November 2006. She also appeared on Channel 9
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
's Surprise Surprise Gotcha
Surprise Surprise Gotcha

Surprise Surprise Gotcha is an Australian hidden camera practical joke television series. Hosted by radio personalities Matt Tilley and Jackie O , the series commenced on the Nine Network on 18 September 2007....
 on 23rd October, 2007. On 17 July 2008 she was a contestant on the struggling Channel9
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
's Celebrity Singing Bee where she performed admirably and clearly showed she still has plenty of sex appeal, fueling speculation that she may pose for further men's magazines.

Personal life

Goldsmith was married to skier Steven Lee and they have a daughter Layla now is 15. She became engaged to business man James Mayo in January 2008.

was rumoured to be dating krock's matt bern in 2005.

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