Trivia

Replaced Monica Bellucci as Mina Harker in La Ligue des gentlemen extraordinaires (2003).

Enjoys scuba diving, horseback riding, swimming, cricket, painting and gardening

Was a model in Europe.

As of 2020, Wylie Wilson, her underwear store in Venice, California is closed, and so is her website. Customers reported that Peta herself was there in the shop, to help them.

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.

Her name means "Golden Eagle" in Blackfoot language (Niitsitapi).

Father Darcy Wilson is a retired warrant officer. Mother Karlene White is a caterer. Brother Rob Wilson, 25, is an Australian army truck driver.

Attended an all-girls Catholic school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

In February 2002, she gave birth to her 1st child, a son: Marlowe Harris. Child's father is the director and her ex-boyfriend Damian Harris.

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.

Has said before that she does not like France nor French people. She was very popular there, until that disappointing revelation.

She once met Russian president Vladimir Putin when she went to the International Film Festival in Moscow. He said that he was a big fan of hers.

Arthur Mendoza was credited for shaping her into an actress.

In 1999, moved into a Brooklyn Heights, New York, apartment building, which also includes co-op owners such as producer Andrew S. Karsch and O.J. Simpson's former attorney Barry Scheck.

Shares her birthday with Owen Wilson (no relation); their age difference is 2 years.

Her parents divorced in 1982.