Rebecca Catherine Gibney is a New Zealand-born Australian actress.
She has appeared regularly in Australian film and television since the mid-1980s.
She won the Gold Logie in 2010 for her role in Packed to the Rafters.
Biography Gibney was born the youngest of six children,
and brought up in Wellington.
She recounted that she was a "bit odd" as a child, stating "I was a bit like Wednesday
Addams in The Addams Family.
I walked around with this headless doll that I took everywhere."
Gibney moved to Australia at the age of 19 after graduating high school.
Performance career Gibney worked as a model, then appeared on
television in the New Zealand kidult series Sea Urchins from 1980 to 1984.
She broke into Australian television with the role of Julie Davis in the children's
series Zoo Family in 1985.
She went on to play mechanic Emma Plimpton in the popular drama series The Flying Doctors,
and in 1990 starred in the mini-series Come In Spinner.
In 1991 she starred in the Channel Nine sitcom All Together Now, leaving the series in 1993.
After her departure, 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.
The series was an immense success and cemented Gibney's status as a household name within
Australia.
She has also appeared in other mini-series, like Kangaroo Palace, and in The Day of the
Roses.
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.
A series of Australian television adverts for Advil in 2006-07 have featured Gibney
and her family.
A new television advert with only Gibney appeared in October 2007.
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 Michael, the map reader of the
title portrayed by Jordan Selwyn, nephew of New Zealand acting icon Don Selwyn.
The film was released in 2008.
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.
From August 2008 until its conclusion in 2013, Rebecca played the female lead of Julie Rafter
on the Seven Network's Packed to the Rafters.
Her role in the show proved popular for Gibney, and she won the Gold Logie in 2009 for the
show.
In 2010, she played the lead role on Channel Ten's telemovie Wicked Love: The Maria Korp
Story.
Rebecca starred in the 2012 movie Mental alongside Toni Collette.
On 23 October 2013, the Seven Network announced that Gibney will star in and produce a new
crime drama, The Killing Field, scheduled for 2014.
Gibney will play a detective tasked with solving the murder of a teenage girl in a small town.
Personal life Gibney has been married twice, first to Irwin
Thomas in 1992, which ended in divorce.
She married production designer Richard Bell in November 2001.
Filmography Awards
Gibney has won, and has been nominated, for several television awards at the AFIs and
the Logies on numerous occasions in her acting career.
She won her first award in 1990, winning the AFI Award for Best Actress for her role in
Come In Spinner.
She also won a peer-nominated Most Outstanding Actress Logie award in 1991 for her role in
the show.
In 1992, she was nominated at the Logies for her role in the sitcom All Together Now in
two categories: Most Popular Actress and Most Popular Light Entertainment / Comedy Female
Performer.
Her role as the lead in Halifax f.p. had Gibney nominated for three different awards awards
- Most Popular Actress at the Logies; Most Outstanding Actress at the Logies and Best
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI's.
Gibney's Role in the telemovie Small Claims led her to another nomination at the 2005
Logies in the Most Outstanding Actress category.
A popular role for Gibney has been on Packed to the Rafters.
Her role in this has led her to win the 2009 Gold Logie and the 2009 Most Popular Actress
award.
She also been nominated at the Logies for the Gold Logie in 2010 and 2011, Most Popular
Actress in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and Most Outstanding Actress in 2009.
At the AFI Awards she was nominated in 2009, in the Best Lead Actress in a Drama award.
References
External links Rebecca Gibney at the Internet Movie Database
Rebecca Gibney fansite