RebeccaHobbs
- Actor
- Writer
Alongside award-winning front and centre roles in everything from horror movie The Ugly to Shortland Street, lawyer-turned-actor Rebecca Hobbs has tried her hand at directing (short film Tick), writing (children's series P.E.T. Detectives) — and even the cha cha (TV’s Dancing with the Stars).
Screenography
Biography
Rebecca Hobbs has qualifications as both an actor (from Wellington's Toi Whakaari) and lawyer. After graduating from Canterbury University she spent two years as a barrister and solicitor, before concentrating on her acting career.
Hobbs got her screen break in the mid 90s on Shortland Street. She did 60 episodes as nurse Annie Flynn, controversially kissing a female doctor along the way, before acting in tele-movie romance Share the Dream, and snaring a starring role in horror movie The Ugly.The latter film won international acclaim; awarded at European fantasy festival Fantasporto for her acting, Hobbs shone as the outwardly strong psychologist, caught up in an extended face-off against a serial killer.
Awards
2002 Capalbio International Short Film Festival (Italy)
Best Creative Idea: for Tick
1998 Fantasporto International Festival of Cinema (Portugal)
Best Actress: for The Ugly
“Such an ultra-sensitive subject — love between a vulnerable nurse and a patient afflicted with cerebral palsy — is extraordinarily high-risk stage country. Rebecca Hobbs ... and director Jed Brophy refuse to meander down any easy cul-de-sac of political correctness, and the unlikely love-song material is tackled head-on ...”