   rebecca catherine gibney (born 14 december 1964) is a new zealand-born australian actress. she has appeared regularly in australian film and television since the mid-1980s. she won the gold logie in 2010 for her role in packed to the rafters. ==biography== gibney was born the youngest of six children, 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." gibney moved to australia at the age of 19 after graduating high school. ==performance career==  gibney worked as a model, then appeared on television in the new zealand kidult series sea urchins from 1980 to 1984. she broke into australian television with the role of julie davis in the children's series zoo family in 1985. she went on to play mechanic emma plimpton in the popular drama series the flying doctors, and in 1990 starred in the mini-series come in spinner. 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. the series was an immense success and cemented gibney's status as a household name within australia. she has also appeared in other mini-series, like kangaroo palace (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 
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