RebeccaGibney
- Actor
- Producer
Within two years of acting in kidult TV adventure Sea Urchins, Kiwi Rebecca Gibney had set up shop in Australia. There she would find fame — and a long list of awards and nominations — thanks to a television CV which includes Wanted (which she also created), Packed to the Rafters, The Flying Doctors, mini-series Come in Spinner, and 21 Halifax tele-movies as forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax.
Screenography
Biography
Levin-born Rebecca Gibney began modelling part-time while working as a receptionist at a Wellington jeweller. Modelling led to television advertisements, then — after worries she had saturated the commercials market — to bit parts in TV shows Pioneer Women and Inside Straight.
Awards
2020 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
Nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama: for Halifax: Retribution
2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Actress: for Wanted, series two
“It doesn't matter who you are, I'll always give [everyone] a go — have a chat, get my photo taken — because I don't believe I'm any better or worse than anyone.”