BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Rebecca Catherine Gibney
Description: Actress, New Zealand
Known For: Plays the role of Julie Rafter in Packed to the Rafters.
Date Born: 14th December 1964
Location Born: Levin, New Zealand
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Rebecca Gibney
An New Zealand born Australian actress.
Gibney was born the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington and moved to Australia at the age of 19.
After working as a model, she broke in to television with the role of Julie Davis in the children’s series Zoo Family in 1985 and went on to play mechanic Emma Plimpton for four years in the critically acclaimed and popular drama series The Flying Doctors.
In 1990, she starred in the highly acclaimed mini-series Come In Spinner.
In 1991, she starred in the Channel Seven sitcom, All Together Now. She quit the show in 1993. When she left the show, she starred in Snowy.
The title character of Dr. Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p. was created especially for her, by the producers of her previous show ‘Snowy’.
Halifax f.p debuted in 1994 with the episode “Acts Of Betrayal”, and continued with a further 20 telemovies leading up until 2002. This was a popular role for her.
In 2002 and 2003, Gibney had a role in Stingers, and from 2003 until 2006, she had a role in the telemovie trilogy Small Claims as Chrissy, co-starring with Claudia Karvan.
In 2002 and 2003, Gibney had a role in Stingers, and from 2003 until 2006, she had a role in the telemovie trilogy Small Claims as Chrissy, co-starring with Claudia Karvan.
She appeared in the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Salem’s Lot, released in 2004, and then followed up in 2006 with King’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes TV Mini-series.
In 2006, she played the role of Lydia, a hippie restaurant owner and operator in the Network Ten drama series Tripping Over. In 2007, she had a small role in the film Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn, and directed by Cherie Nowlan.
The film is known as Introducing the Dwights in the United States.
Rebecca was executive producer and also starred in New Zealand feature film The Map Reader as Amelia alongside Michael Hurst and played the mother of Michae
Rebecca currently hosts a documentary series produced by Television New Zealand called Sensing Murder in which unsolved New Zealand murder or missing person cases are probed by psychic investigators from both New Zealand and Australia.
Since August 2008, Rebecca can be seen as the female lead on Channel 7’s new Tuesday night show Packed to the Rafters. She plays the role of the mother Julie Rafter. Her role in the show proved popular for Gibney, and she won the Gold Logie in 2009 for the show.
She currently resides in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia with her husband and son.
She has been nominated for both AFIs and Logies on numerous occasions. At the Logies, she has been nominated for the Most Popular Actress six times (1992, 1997 – 99, 2001 – 02), Outstanding Actress five times (1998 – 2000, 2005, 2009) and Most Popular Comedy Female Personality (1992). Most recently she has been nominated consistently for Best Actress AFIs for her role as Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p. .
In 2009, Rebecca won two Logies for her role as Julie Rafter in Packed to the Rafters. She won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actress and the Gold Logie, and was nominated for Most Outstanding Actress (losing to Underbelly’s Kat Stewart).
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