Marnie Reece-Wilmore

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Marnie Reece-Wilmore
Born (1974-01-10) 10 January 1974 (age 51)
OccupationActress
Known for Neighbours as Debbie Martin

Marnie Reece-Wilmore (born 10 January 1974) is an Australian actress from Sydney. She is best known for her role playing Debbie Martin in Neighbours , and was the third actress to portray the character.

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Early life

Reece-Wilmore's grandparents, uncle and father emigrated to Australia from Cleethorpes in 1951. [1] She has two older sisters, an older brother, three step-sisters and a step-brother. [2] Her father was a recording engineer and her mother a production assistant. [3] Reece-Wilmore began appearing in school plays when she was seven years old, before she began doing voice work for television and radio commercials. [3] She lived with her family in Sydney, until she was cast on Neighbours and had to relocate to Melbourne. [2]

Career

In 1992, Reece-Wilmore starred in the television film The Distant Home with Melissa Jaffer and Grant Dodwell. [4]

Reece-Wilmore is best known for playing Debbie Martin in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1992 to 1994, and again from 1996 to 1997. In 2005, Reece-Wilmore filmed a cameo for the Neighbours' 20th anniversary special. [5]

Since leaving Neighbours in 1997, Reece-Wilmore has made guest appearances in television programmes such as Police Rescue , Blue Heelers , Stingers , Law of the Land , Halifax f.p. , City Homicide , Dogstar and The New Adventures of Ocean Girl . [6]

She worked with the Melbourne Theatre Company in a production of Pride and Prejudice in 1999. [7] She also appeared as an LA Groupie in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned .

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992–1994, 1996–1997, 2005 Neighbours Debbie Martin Series regular
1992 The Distant Home Sally HarrisonTV movie
1995 Police Rescue DanniEpisode: "Rescue Me"
1995 Law of the Land Serena GoodmanEpisode: "Glory Road"
1998 Blue Heelers Kate HughesEpisode: "Spinning the Yarn"
1999 Halifax f.p. Annabel CollessEpisode: "A Murder of Crows"
2000 The New Adventures of Ocean Girl Princess Neri10 episodes
2001 Blue Heelers Prudence DayEpisode: "A Safe Bet"
2001 Stingers Magda StantonEpisode: "Tell Me You Love Me"
2002 Queen of the Damned LA GroupieFeature film
2005LifeElisaTV movie
2011 City Homicide Bridget MangusEpisode: "The Business of Fear"
2011 Dogstar VoiceEpisodes: "Fatal Attraction", "Titanium Chef", "The Greening of Gavin"
2013 The Broken Shore JadeenTV movie

Theatre

YearTitleRoleCompany
1999 Pride and Prejudice Mary Bennet and Miss Jenkinson Melbourne Theatre Company

References

  1. ↑ "Neighbours develops the Cleethorpes connection". Grimsby Evening Telegraph . 6 January 1993. Retrieved 22 May 2025– via Newspapers.com. Lock-green.svg
  2. 1 2 "Traumatic experience after big break" . Weekly News . 16 April 1994. Retrieved 22 May 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. 1 2 Deason, Denise (2 January 1993). "The reluctant rebel". TV Week . p. 43.
  4. ↑ "Satellite TV". Yorkshire Evening Press . 26 February 1993. Retrieved 22 May 2025– via Newspapers.com. Lock-green.svg
  5. ↑ More Neighbours returns confirmed
  6. ↑ The New Adventures of Ocean Girl (2000–2000)
  7. ↑ "Pride and Prejudice". The Age . 17 September 1999. Retrieved 22 May 2025– via Newspapers.com. Lock-green.svg


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