Rebecca Gibney
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| Rebecca Gibney | |
| Birth name | Rebecca Catherine Gibney |
| Born | December 14, 1964 Levin, New Zealand |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Bell November 2001 – Current Previous: Irwin Thomas (AKA Jack Jones) 1992 – Mid 1990s |
| Notable roles | Chrissy Hindmarsh from Small Claims Jane Halifax from Halifax f.p. Ingrid Burton from Stingers Julie Davis from The Zoo Family Lydia from Tripping Over Tracy Lawson from All Together Now |
Rebecca Gibney (December 14, 1964) is a New Zealand born, Australia-based actress.
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[edit] Biography
Born Rebecca Catherine Gibney in Levin, New Zealand on December 14th 1964, the youngest of six children, and brought up in Wellington. Gibney moved to Australia at the age of 19.
[edit] Acting 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 Emma Plimpton for four years in the successful drama series The Flying Doctors.
The title character of Dr. Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p. was created especially for her. The show debuted in 1994 with "Halifax f.p.: Lies of the Mind", and continued with a further 20 episodes leading up until 2002.
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.
At present, Gibney plays Lydia, a hippy restaurant owner and operator in the Network Ten drama series Tripping Over.
[edit] Personal Life
Gibney has been married twice, firstly to Irwin Thomas (former lead singer of Southern Sons; aka Jack Jones) in 1992, which ended in divorce. 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.
[edit] Awards
Rebecca Gibney won both an AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Actress, and a peer-nominated Most Outstanding Actress Logie in 1991 for her role in Come In Spinner, an ABC Television mini-series set in wartime (WWII) Sydney. Her co-stars, Lisa Harrow and Kerry Armstrong were also both nominated for the Logie award.
She has been nominated for both AFIs and Logies on numerous occasions. She has been nominated for the Most Popular Actress 5 times (1997 - 99, 2001 - 02) and also been nominated for the Outstanding Actress 4 times (1998 - 2000, 2005). 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.
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