Rebecca Gethings

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Rebecca Gethings
Born1976 (age 46–47)
Alberta, Canada
OccupationActress
Years active2001–present

Rebecca Gethings is an English actress best known for her roles in film and television comedies such as The Thick of It , Extras , The Mimic , David Brent: Life on the Road and Call the Midwife .

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Early life

Rebecca Gethings was born in 1976 in Alberta, Canada, and moved to Berkshire, England, with her family whilst still a child. She trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. [1]

Career

Film and television

Gethings has collaborated several times with Armando Iannucci, improvising with the US cast of Veep , in which she also appears. [2] Iannucci later cast her as Helen Hatley, the ambitious special adviser to Nicola Murray in the fourth and final series of The Thick of It . [3]

Gethings played Lizzie in episode 4 of 'Extras', directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In 2016, she worked again with Gervais, playing Miriam, the head of Human Resources in David Brent: Life on the Road. [4]

In 2017, Gethings appeared as Jane in Mad to Be Normal .

In March 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Fran Claverley. [5]

From January 2023, Gethings portrayed Sister Veronica in the twelfth series of BBC period drama Call the Midwife . [6] [7] [8] She later told Radio Times: "I was just blown away by how welcome I was made by the cast. How kind and generous they all were to me, and patient. I love Sister Veronica because she’s naughty, and so I hope she gets to do a little bit more naughtiness." [9]

Gethings has voiced a number of animated characters for children's television, advertising campaigns and documentaries. and was the voice of Maiya the Meerkat in the Compare The Market TV advertising campaign. [10]

Theatre

Gethings' stage work includes The Vegemite Tales at The Venue (2006), [11] [12] [13] Blessie Blatt in Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre [14] (which was later produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, featuring Gethings in the same role) [15] and the West End theatre production of Maxim Gorky's Vassa.

Personal life

Gethings' long time partner is the Emmy award-winning animation director Tom Brass. [16] [17] They have two children. In May 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, Gethings and her then three-year-old daughter produced a podcast titled Dear Crocodile. [18] [19]

Partial filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 EastEnders NurseEpisode dated 19 March 2001
2002 Attachments Ruth2 episodes
2004 Comedy Lab Series 6 episode 2: Clitheroe
2005 Extras LizzieSeries 1 episode 4: Les Dennis
The Blind Productions ProjectWomanShort film
2006 Casino Royale Hot Room Technician #2
2008 Doctors Andrea QuigleySeries 10 episode 84
2008–2009 Freezing Kim2 episodes
2009 Not Going Out DawnSeries 3 episode 2: Winner
The Omid Djalili Show 1 episode
2010 Dani's House Miss Batstone1 episode
2011 Holby City Rosalind Timms Series 13 episode 39
My Family VeraSeries 11 episode 11: A Night Out
2012 The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret Head Juror1 episode
The Thick of It Helen HatleySeries 4; 4 episodes
A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other StoriesMother1 episode
Little Crackers Mum
2013 Drifters GabbySeries 1 episode 3: Work Experience
2014 Veep Bank of England lady1 episode
The Mimic Harriet5 episodes
BBC Comedy FeedsAoife1 episode
2015Cradle to GraveRuby/Woman at dinner dance1 episode
2016 David Brent: Life on the Road Miriam Clark
2017 Mad to Be Normal Jane Simons
You, Me and Him Biggles Tilsbury
2018DoctorsBarbara BucklandSeries 19 episode 154
2020 There She Goes LeilaSeries 2 episode 3: Headspace
DoctorsFran ClaverleySeries 21 episode 90
2022 The Serpent Queen Eleanor of Austria Series 1; 6 episodes
Breeders RheumatologistSeries 3 episode 4: No Body
2023–present Call the Midwife Sister VeronicaSeries 12; 8 episodes

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  6. ↑ "Call the Midwife newcomer says her new character 'ruffles feathers'". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
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  14. ↑ "Cast announced for Chicken Soup with Barley". Royal Court Theatre. 19 April 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "Chicken Soup with Barley". BBC Radio 3. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  16. ↑ "Rebecca Gethings (@RGethings) on Twitter" . Retrieved 1 August 2016– via Twitter.
  17. ↑ Coady-Stemp, Emily (31 October 2019). "Wandsworth family praying for safe return of cat missing since September". SW Londoner. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  18. ↑ "Hey everyone, I hope that you're all doing ok. Here is the first episode of a podcast that I have made with my three year old. It's called 'Dear Crocodile' and is a bit of gentle entertainment which we hope you'll enjoy..." 10 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2023– via Twitter.
  19. ↑ "Dear Crocodile". PodBean. 9 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
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