- Rebecca Gibney
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name = Rebecca Gibney
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birthname = Rebecca Catherine Gibney
birthdate = Birth date and age|1964|12|14|mf=y
location = Levin,New Zealand
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height = 1.73 m (5' 8")
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notable role = Chrissy Hindmarsh
from "Small Claims"
Jane Halifax
from "Halifax f.p. "
Ingrid Burton
from "Stingers"
Margaret 'Guinea' Malone
from "Come In Spinner "
Lydia
from "Tripping Over "
Tracy Lawson
from "All Together Now"
Julie Davis
from "The Zoo Family"
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spouse = Richard Bell (2001-present)Irwin Thomas (1992-95)
child = Zachary Edison Bell (born 2004)Rebecca Catherine Gibney (born
December 14 ,1964 in Levin,New Zealand ) is a New Zealand-born Australia-based actress.Biography
Gibney was born the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington. Gibney moved to Australia at the age of 19.
Performance career
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
All Together Now , quitting the show after three seasons.Rebecca also was in the film 13 Gantry Row a must see movie for any Rebecca Fan 1998
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.She appeared in the mini-series
Kangaroo Palace in 1997, and inDay of the Roses in 1998.In 2002 and 2003, Gibney had a role in
Stingers .Gibney's most high-profile role since Halifax was in the telemovie trilogy
Small Claims as Chrissy, co-starring with Claudia Karvan 2003-2006.She appeared in the movie adaptation of
Stephen King 's novelSalem's Lot released in 2004 and then followed up in 2006 with King's "" TV Mini-series.Her most recent TV role has been as Lydia, a hippie restaurant owner and operator in the
Network Ten drama seriesTripping Over .She also has a small role in the film Clubland, starring
Brenda Blethyn , and directed byCherie Nowlan . The film is known asIntroducing the Dwights in the United States.A series of Australian television commercials for
Advil in 2006/7 have featured Gibney and her family. A new television commercial with only Gibney appeared in October 2007.Rebecca was executive producer and also starred in New Zealand feature film
The Map Reader as Amelia alongsideMichael Hurst and played the mother of Michael, The map reader of the title portrayed byJordan Selwyn , nephew of New Zealand acting iconDon Selwyn . The film is set for a 2008 release.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, 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.Personal life
Gibney has been married twice, firstly to
Irwin Thomas (former lead singer ofSouthern Sons ; aka Jack Jones) in 1992, which ended indivorce . She married production designer Richard Bell in November 2001 and gave birth to her first child, a son, Zachary Edison Bell, in early 2004.She currently resides in
Tasmania , Australia with her husband and son.Awards
Rebecca Gibney won both an AFI (
Australian Film Institute ) Award for Best Actress, and a peer-nominated Most Outstanding ActressLogie in 1991 for her role in "Come In Spinner ", an ABC Television mini-series set in wartime (WWII) Sydney. Her co-stars,Lisa Harrow andKerry Armstrong were also both nominated for the Logie award.She has been nominated for both AFIs and Logies on numerous occasions. At the Logies, she has been nominated for the "Most Popular Actress" 6 times (1992, 1997 - 99, 2001 - 02), "Outstanding Actress" 4 times (1998 - 2000, 2005) 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. " .Gibney won two "Most Popular Actress People's Choice Awards" in the late 1990s. Gibney was also nominated for 'Most sexiest Aussie actress' in July 2004's edition of Picture magazine only to lose out to Toni Pearen.
External links
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* [http://rebeccagibney.bravehost.com Rebecca Gibney Fansite]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432264/ Clubland aka Introducing the Dwights at IMDB]
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