She also wrote that Collette makes conscious efforts to break from the typecasting, with leading roles in films like "Miss You Already" and "Lucky Them". At the end of her analysis, Kingston concluded, "Collette truly is a chameleon in both the versatility of her acting style and in the kind of roles she is willing to approach with a physicality-based method." Collette is particularly known for her expressive and highly malleable face, distinctive versatility, physical transformations and accents. Collette's versatility as a performer is unique in that despite playing a wide range of characters with vastly different personalities and nuances they're usually portrayed through the medium of a mother and they often deal with issues relating to motherhood. In her twenties she found it difficult to adapt to being in the media spotlight and, as a result, struggled with bulimia and panic attacks. During this period she travelled extensively, shaved her head five times and bought a flat in Brixton, London. Her aim was to "explore different ideas and just look at life and try to understand it." She left the Brixton flat after a few months because she saw a man "getting his head bashed in with a pole 30 metres away." Collette had dated her "Velvet Goldmine" co-star, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for about a year (ca. 1997) before ending their relationship and described it as "hedonistic, drunken and probably dangerous." When asked about her faith, she remarked, "We're all spiritual... I'm not Buddhist but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions, and the most compassionate. It's an ongoing journey." She met musician Dave Galafassi early in 2002, at a CD launch for his then-band Gelbison, the couple married in a traditional Buddhist ceremony on 11 January 2003. The couple have a daughter, Sage Florence, born on 9 January 2008, and a son, Arlo Robert, born on 22 April 2011. She has said that she is an avid camper and she enjoys meditating. They lived in Sydney in the 2000s before moving to Los Angeles. The family returned to Sydney after about ten years in 2019. In December of that year Galafassi "had a devastating motorbike accident"; Collette thanked the ambulance services, "for your swiftness, clarity, knowledge, compassion and dedication. You saved him and we cannot thank you enough." Among her numerous accolades, Collette received five AACTA Awards from eight nominations, a Golden Globe Award from five nominations, a Primetime Emmy Award from three nominations, and a Screen Actors Guild Award from three nominations.