Rebecca Gibney Biography

Rebecca Gibney (Rebecca Catherine Gibney) is a New Zealand actress born on 14th November 1964 in Levin, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand. She is popularly known for her roles on Australian television in The Flying Doctors, Halifax f.p., Packed to the Rafters, Winter and Wanted.

Rebecca Gibney Career

At the age of 19 after graduating from high school Rebecca Gibney moved to Australia. She worked as a model a nd from 1980 to 1984 he appeared on television in the New Zealand kidult series Sea Urchins.

In 1985 she broke into Australian television with the role of Julie Davis in the children’s series ‘Zoo Family’. In 1991 she starred in the Channel Nine sitcom ‘All Together Now’, leaving the series in 1993. After her departure, she starred in ‘Snowy’.

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.

Rebecca Gibney was executive producer and also starred in New Zealand feature film The Map Reader as Amelia alongside Michael Hurst and played the mother of Michael, the map reader of the title. The film was released in 2008.

Rebecca Gibney hosted 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.

In August 2008 until 2013 Rebecca Gibney played the female lead of Julie Rafter on the Seven Network’s ‘Packed to the Rafters’. The role earned her a Gold Logie Award in 2009.

Rebecca Gibney Flying Doctors

Rebecca Gibney played mechanic Emma Plimpton in the popular drama series The Flying Doctors. The series chronicles the events surrounding the activities of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, which operates its own aircraft -in this case from the base at Coopers Crossing, an otherwise hardly notable town- to fly its medical staff throughout the Australian outback, where roads are too scarce and distances too immense to reach patients for medical care or get them to hospital by car in time.

Doctors, nurses, pilots and base staff change throughout the seasons, often coming from the city and finding it difficult to adapt to life in the godforsaken countryside and be accepted by the isolated local community; there are of course the usual colleague stories. In most episodes they make one or more flights for routine medical examination sessions and/or emergency help, sometimes continued on board and/or in the hospital. Furthermore there are various sidelines, mainly concerning the local characters such as bar-owners Vic and Nancy, who also provide the only rooms, and some of their regulars, including local shopkeeper and busybody Violet Carnegie and arrogant richest businessman George Baxter who are very influential in the indispensable fund-raising.

Rebecca Gibney Movies and TV Shows

Rebecca Gibney TV Shows/ TV Series

• 1980: Sea Urchins as Karen
• 1985: I Live with Me Dad as Jill Harkness
• 1985: Zoo Family as Julie Davis
• 1986: The Great Bookie Robbery as Bonnie
• 1986–1991: The Flying Doctors as Emma Plimpton Patterson
• 1990: Come In Spinner as Guinea Malone
• 1990: Acropolis Now as Mrs. Spiro Strangulator
• 1991: Ring of Scorpio as Judith
• 1991–93: All Together Now as Tracy Lawson
• 1993: Snowy as Lilian Anderson
• 1994: Time Trax as Dr. Maria Mills
• 1994–2002: Halifax f.p. as Jane Halifax
• 1995: G.P. as Larissa Schuller
• 1997: Kangaroo Palace as Heather Randall
• 1998: The Silver Brumby as Boon Boon (voice)
• 1998: The Day of the Roses as Margaret Warby
• 1998: 13 Gantry Row as Julie
• 1999: Sabrina Down Under as Hilary Hexton
• 1999: The Lost World as Lady Cassandra Yorkton
• 1999: Die Millennium-Katastrophe – Computer-Crash 2000 as Nicole
• 2001: Finding Hope as Hope Fox
• 2001: Farscape as Rinic Sarova
• 2001: Ihaka: Blunt Instrument as Kirsty Finn
• 2002–03: Stingers as Ingrid Burton
• 2003: Sensing Murder: Easy Street as Host
• 2004: Small Claims as Chrissy Hindmarsh
• 2004: Salem’s Lot as Marjorie Glick
• 2005: Small Claims: White Wedding as Chrissy Hindmarsh
• 2006: Small Claims: The Reunion as Chrissy Hindmarsh
• 2006: Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King as India Fornoy
• 2006: Tripping Over as Lydia
• 2008–13: Packed to the Rafters as Julie Rafter
• 2010: Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story as Maria Korp
• 2014: The Killing Field as Det. Serg. Eve Winter
• 2015: Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door as Marion Woolnough
• 2015: Winter as Eve Winter
• 2016 – present: Wanted as Lola Buckley

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Rebecca Gibney Movies

• 1984: Among the Cinders as Sally
• 1986: Mr. Wrong as Clive’s Secretary
• 1990: Jigsaw as Virginia York
• 1994: Lucky Break as Gloria Wrightman
• 1997: Joey as Penny McGregor
• 2006: Lost and Found as Mac’s Mum
• 2007: Clubland as Lana
• 2008: The Map Reader as Amelia
• 2009: In Her Skin as Gail
• 2011: Seek as Mummy
• 2012: Mental as Shirley
• 2015: The Dressmaker as Muriel Pratt

Rebecca Gibney Awards

• 2010: Logie Award for Most Popular Actress, Packed to the Rafters.
• 2009: Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Packed to the Rafters.
• 2009: Logie Award for Most Popular Actress, Packed to the Rafters.
• 1991: Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress, Come in Spinner.
• 1990: AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama, Come in Spinner.

Rebecca Gibney Family

Rebecca Gibney is the youngest of six children, born in Levin, New Zealand and brought up in Wellington. She recounted that she was a “bit odd” as a child, stating “I was a bit like Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. I walked around with this headless doll that I took everywhere.”

Rebecca Gibney father, Austin, was one of 11 children and dropped out of school and he became an alcoholic which turned him to a violent man. He died at the age of 52 after he had a blood-clotting disorder and lost a leg as a result.

‘When I was 16, I spent five months taking care of him at home. I had quit school at 15 and stopped working to be at home while Mum worked. Just before Dad died he turned to me, hugged me and said, “I love you”. He never had said it up to that point.’

Rebecca Gibney mother, Shirley, was abused by her father until she was 15 and at the age of 19 she married Austin who also physically abused her another 20 years.

Rebecca’s brother, Patrick, was diagnosed with a brain tumour at 24 when his wife Annie was pregnant with their first child. ‘The doctors told us his prognosis wasn’t good, but instead of us saying our goodbyes he had this innate faith and belief in himself. Patrick is proof you can get strong and get through. It was a miracle he survived.’

Rebecca Gibney Husband/ Richard Bell Rebecca Gibney

Rebecca Gibney met Richard Bell, a production designer, in 1999 and they got together in 2000. In November 2001 they got married. She was previous married to Irwin Thomas (former lead singer of Southern Sons, aka Jack Jones) in 1992 but they divorced in 1995.

Rebecca Gibney Children

On 7th April 2004 Rebecca Gibney gave birth to her son Zachary Edison Bell. She says that when her son was born she saw her father.

‘When my son was born, there was a moment in hospital when we locked eyes and I saw my father. I still see him in him sometimes, and I am like, “Oh my god, it’s my dad”. Zachary is confident, strong and secure and knows we love him. I promised to give him the life my father never had.’

Rebecca Gibney Age

• Rebecca Gibney was born on 14th November 1964 in Levin, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand (53 years as at 2017)

Rebecca Gibney Anxiety/ Rebecca Gibney Depression

Rebecca Gibney revealed that she developed agoraphobia and had a mental collapse in her early 30s. She revealed that her career was going amazingly but her personal life was a mess after the collapse of her first marriage to singer Jack Jones. Once in her way back to Australia from the south of France for work and she was nursing an oxygen tank on the plane because she couldn’t breathe. Roger, her mentor, gave her a card for a woman who could help her once they landed. She became her therapist and final got well.

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Rebecca Gibney News

Australian TV darling Rebecca Gibney has revealed how she escaped a sexual assault. There’s a reason she kept it a secret.

Rebecca Gibney’s grandfather — the same man who the veteran actor says had sexually abused her own mother — tried to visit his sins on her daughter.

Even as a pre-teen, Gibney was having none of it.

“He tried to touch me once but I was a very strong 12-year-old. I told him to get his hands off me,” the 52-year-old says in an explosive claim set to air during an upcoming episode of Julia Zemiro’s Home Delivery.

After the attempted assault, Gibney saw as little of her maternal grandfather as possible.

She avoided the “happy families” visits with her grandfather as her mother guarded the explosive secret.

“I didn’t see him much after that. I didn’t want to spend time with him,” she says.

“Dad knew nothing about my grandfather, that was the other thing.

“Which is why we still had to be happy families with my grandfather. But dad would have killed my grandfather if he knew.”

Not for a minute does Gibney believe her mother consciously put her and her siblings in harm’s way.

While Gibney’s now-dead grandfather had abused her mother from the time she was two until the age of 15, “Mum never thought for a moment that he would try it on any of us”.

It’s a frank and soul-baring interview as Gibney also revisits her childhood shaped by an alcoholic father who frequently beat her mother. And for whom she found forgiveness as she nursed him in his final days.

The Gold Logie winner had spoken before about growing up in a household in the grip of domestic violence, and the complex relationship with her late father is revealed as she revisits the family home where he died.

The family moved often, before settling in that home, she tells Zemiro.

“Dad was a heavy drinker,” she says, by almost matter-of-fact way of explanation.

School, she says, was her happy place … “and there was a period there of about two or three years where my father stopped drinking”.

She started doing well in those golden years, she says “because he was paying attention”.

Reliving her childhood, Gibney counts herself lucky that her mother had the money she didn’t have for her older brothers and sisters growing up to finance the singing and dancing lessons Gibney adored.

Her father started drinking again when Gibney was a teenager. That’s when the panic attacks — which she would suffer until she had a “total breakdown” in her early 30s — began.

“My panic attacks were the result of me burying feelings,” she says.

“Then I became the ultimate people pleader and then when I got to 32, 33 I had a complete and utter breakdown.

“On the surface my life was great. Inside, I was just a black hole.

“Weirdly enough it wasn’t my dad so much I had to forgive. It was my grandfather, because I blamed him for what happened to mum.”

Revisiting her childhood home, Gibney steels herself for the memories and reveals her conflicted love for her father, especially in his final months.

She had quit work to help her mother care for her dad as he died.

“I got so angry because I thought ‘I am finally getting to know this man’, because for years he was just this drink angry person. And the last six months I thought ‘I’m finally getting to know who you are’. And then he died,” she says.

“And he was only 51. Younger than I am now. I miss him.”

She said her father never “laid a finger on us … he loved his kids”.

“There were good things. He was good man who made some really dumb choices,” she says.

“When mum first met him she was escaping an abusive relationship — her father abused her for many years — and she met dad she thought he was going to be kind of her saviour.”

The first years were great. Then then the drinking accelerated.

“He wasn’t being the man he wanted to be so all the anger and the rage he was suppressing started coming out and he started beating my mum.”

Gibney speaks through tears as she says her mother “carried so much guilt over the abuse of her father that when she was getting beaten up by dad there was a part of her that thought she deserved this”.

“Home was safe, because mum made it safe,” she says.

“She would shut the doors when she knew dad was coming home. And she would always come in after he’d beaten her and make sure we were OK.”

Her mother, an “incredible”, “strong”, “amazing” woman spoke constantly Gibney says, about forgiveness.

Gibney is now an active campaigner against domestic violence as a patron of women’s charity, Share the Dignity.

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