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 in the critically acclaimed and popular drama series The Flying Doctors. In 1990, she starred in the highly acclaimed mini-series Come In Spinner.
In 1991, she starred in the Channel Nine sitcom, All Together Now. She left 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. This was a popular role for her. She has also appeared in other mini-series, like Kangaroo Palace (in 1997), and in The Day of the Roses (in 1998).
In 2002 and 2003, Gibney had a role in Stingers, and from 2003 until 2006, she had a role in the telemovie trilogy Small Claims as Chrissy, co-starring with Claudia Karvan.
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.
In 2006, she played the role of Lydia, a hippie restaurant owner and operator in the Network Ten drama series Tripping Over. In 2007, she had a small role in the film Clubland, starring Brenda Blethyn, and directed by Cherie Nowlan. The film is known as Introducing 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 alongside Michael Hurst and played the mother of Michael, The map reader of the title portrayed by Jordan Selwyn, nephew of New Zealand acting icon Don Selwyn. The film was released in 2008.
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.
Since 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. Her role in the show proved popular for Gibney, and she won the Gold Logie in 2009 for the show.
In 2010, she has the lead role on Channel Ten's telemovie Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story.
Rebecca will star in the upcoming movie Mental which will be released in 2012, she will star alongside Toni Collette.
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