Tottie Goldsmith (born Caroline Goldsmith on 27 August 1962) is an Australian actress and singer.
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Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and British-born 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.[1]
In the early 1980s Goldsmith acted in Australian soap operas The Young Doctors, 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.[2]
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.
From 1986 Goldsmith was one of four female lead vocalists in Australian band Chantoozies, her brother Brett Goldsmith was their bass guitarist, songwriter and programmer.[3] They released three singles "Witch Queen", "He's Gonna Step On You Again" and "Wanna Be Up" and an album Chantoozies by 1988.[4] 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.
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, 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.
Goldsmith was married to skier Steven Lee and they had a daughter Layla. She became engaged to business man James Mayo in January 2008.[5] On 22 January 2011 she was arrested for alleged possession of cocaine at a party in Portsea, Victoria.[6]