Rebecca Gethings

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]

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]

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.

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]

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