Rebecca Gethings

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.

Career

Television

Gethings has collaborated several times with Armando Iannucci, improvising with the US cast of Veep, in which she also appears.[1] 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.[2] Gethings played Lizzie in episode 4 of 'Extras', directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In March 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Fran Claverley.[3]

Gethings will portray Sister Veronica in BBC period drama Call the Midwife from series 12 onwards.[4]

Voice work

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.[5]

Film

She worked again with Ricky Gervais, playing Miriam, the head of Human Resources in David Brent: Life on the Road, released in August 2016.[6][7] Her film work also includes Casino Royale and Mad to Be Normal.

Theatre

Gethings' stage work includes Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre[8] 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.[9] They have two children.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2006Casino RoyaleHot Room Technician #2
2016David Brent: Life on the RoadMiriam Clark
2017Mad to Be NormalJane Simons
2017You, Me and HimBiggles Tilsbury
2022The Serpent QueenEleanor of Austria
2023-Call the MidwifeSister Veronica

References
  1. "rebecca-gethings". rebecca-gethings. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. "Funny girls". 7 September 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. Writer: Kim Millar; Director: John Maidens; Producer: Peter Leslie Wild (25 March 2020). "Privilege". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.
  4. "Call the Midwife newcomer says her new character 'ruffles feathers'". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  5. "Actors". calypsovoices.com. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  6. "Rebecca Gethings – Movies 2016". www.cinemablog.me. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  7. "Rebecca Gethings". IMDb. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  8. Royal Court:Chicken Soup With Barley
  9. "Rebecca Gethings (@RGethings) on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
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