Rebecca Gibney is a renowned and beloved Australian actress, born in Levin, New Zealand, as the youngest of six children. Before moving to Australia at the age of 19, she appeared in several New Zealand television series, including Inside Straight, Pioneer Women, and Sea Urchins.
Her breakthrough in Australia came when she played the role of Julie Davis in the Nine Network series Zoo Family, followed by her stint in the popular Nine Network drama series Flying Doctors. In 2012, she starred in P.J. Hogan's feature film Mental, opposite Toni Collette and Anthony LaPaglia, earning her nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the AACTA Awards and Australian Film Critics Association Awards.
Throughout her extensive career, Rebecca has portrayed a wide range of fascinating characters on Australian television, including Guinea Malone in Come In Spinner, which won her an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Mini-Series and a Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress.
One of her most notable and critically acclaimed roles was as Dr. Jane Halifax in Halifax F.P., a character created especially for her, for which she received six Silver Logie nominations and two AFI Award nominations. The multi-award-winning series ran for 21 telemovies from 1994 to 2002 and was rebooted in 2019 as Halifax: Retribution, earning the series a Best Drama Nomination at the 2020 AACTA Awards and Rebecca a Best Lead Actress Nomination.
Rebecca's performance as Julie Rafter in Packed To The Rafters, spanning six seasons, earned her a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality, two Silver Logies for Most Popular Actress, and seven Logie Award nominations, as well as an AFI Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.
She co-created, produced, and starred in three seasons of the popular Seven Network drama Wanted, which received eight nominations at the NZ TV Awards, including Best Drama Series and Best Actress, and was also nominated for a 2017 International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series. Rebecca previously co-produced the TV movie The Killing Field and the Seven Network drama series Winter, in which she also starred.
Rebecca's other notable television credits include the TV biopic Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Ring Of Scorpio, All Together Now, Snowy, GP, Kangaroo Palace, 13 Gantry Row, Day Of The Roses, Finding Hope, Salem's Lot, Stingers, Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes, and three Small Claims telemovies, earning her a Silver Logie nomination for Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series.
Among her numerous feature film credits, one of Rebecca's personal favorites was Jocelyn Moorhouse's The Dressmaker, alongside Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, and Liam Hemsworth. In 2020, she featured in the New Zealand film Lowdown Dirty Criminal, directed by Paul Murphy.
