Rebecca Gethings

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|11|06}}

| birth_place = Alberta, Canada

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| alma_mater = Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

| occupation = {{Hlist | Actress | voice actress | theatre actress | writer}}

| years_active = 2001–present

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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.

Early life

Rebecca Gethings was born in 1977 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1775084/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_1_q_rebecca%2520gethings|title=Rebecca Gethings Filmography|publisher=IMDb|access-date=8 June 2023}}

Career

= Film and television =

Gethings has collaborated several times with Armando Iannucci, improvising with the US cast of Veep, in which she also appears.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rebeccagethings.com/#!rebecca-gethings-tv-film-theatre-work/c13dn|title=rebecca-gethings|website=rebecca-gethings|access-date=2016-08-01}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/funny-girls-8117020.html|title=Funny girls|date=2012-09-07|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-08-01}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinemablog.me/tag/rebecca-gethings/|title=Rebecca Gethings – Movies 2016|website=cinemablog.me|access-date=2016-08-01}}

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.{{Cite episode|title=Privilege|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gpp3|series=Doctors|series-link=Doctors (2000 TV series)|credits=Writer: Kim Millar; Director: John Maidens; Producer: Peter Leslie Wild|network=BBC|station=BBC One|airdate=25 March 2020}}

From January 2023, Gethings portrayed Sister Veronica in the twelfth series of BBC period drama Call the Midwife.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/call-the-midwife-newcomer-ruffles-feathers-newsupdate/amp/|title=Call the Midwife newcomer says her new character 'ruffles feathers'|work=Radio Times|access-date=2022-12-20}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/call-the-midwife-sister-veronica-25875030|title=Call the Midwife's new nun Sister Veronica to make debut as new series starts|website=Chronicle Live|last=Duke|first=Simon|date=January 2023|access-date=8 June 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/bbc-confirms-two-more-series-of-hit-show-call-the-midwife/42339209.html|title=BBC confirms two more series of hit show Call The Midwife|website=Irish Independent|last=McLaughlin|first=Charlotte|date=13 February 2023|access-date=8 June 2023}} 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."{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/call-the-midwife-welcoming-cast-newsupdate/|title=Call the Midwife newcomer "blown away" by welcoming cast|website=Radio Times|last=Hibbs|first=James|date=2 May 2023|access-date=8 June 2023}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.calypsovoices.com/actors.aspx?id=5&m=0&b=1&f=5&corp=0&pt=34#id=25|title=Actors|access-date=2016-08-01|website=calypsovoices.com}}

= Theatre =

Gethings' stage work includes The Vegemite Tales at The Venue (2006),{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-vegemite-tales-review-at-venue-london|title=The Vegemite Tales Review|website=The Stage|last=Vale|first=Paul|date=4 August 2006|access-date=8 June 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/vegemitevenue-rev|title=The Vegemite Tales|website=British Theatre Guide|access-date=8 June 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/the-vegemite-tales-bsh66hw6tdt|title=The Vegemite Tales|website=The Times|last=Marlowe|first=Sam|date=4 August 2006|access-date=8 June 2023}} Blessie Blatt in Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre{{cite web|url=https://royalcourttheatre.com/cast-announced-for-chicken-soup-with-barkey/|title=Cast announced for Chicken Soup with Barley|website=Royal Court Theatre|date=19 April 2011|access-date=8 June 2023}} (which was later produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, featuring Gethings in the same role){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hq27w|title=Chicken Soup with Barley|publisher=BBC Radio 3|date=27 September 2015|access-date=8 June 2023}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/rgethings?lang=en-gb|title=Rebecca Gethings (@RGethings) on Twitter|via=Twitter|access-date=2016-08-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/31102019-wandsworth-family-praying-for-safe-return-of-cat-missing-since-september|title=Wandsworth family praying for safe return of cat missing since September|website=SW Londoner|last=Coady-Stemp|first=Emily|date=31 October 2019|access-date=8 June 2023}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/RGethings/status/1259444084080549889?s=20|title=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...|via=Twitter|date=10 May 2020|access-date=8 June 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://dearmrcrocodile.podbean.com|title=Dear Crocodile|website=PodBean|date=9 May 2020|access-date=8 June 2023}}

Filmography

= Television series =

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style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col"\|Year ! scope="col"\|Title ! scope="col"\|Role ! scope="col"\|Notes
2001	EastEnders	Nurse	Episode dated 19 March 2001
2002	Attachments	Ruth Goodman	2 episodes
2004	Comedy Lab	Becca	Series 6 episode 2: Clitheroe
2005	Extras	Lizzie	Series 1 episode 4: Les Dennis
2008	Doctors	Andrea Quigley	Series 10 episode 84
2008–2009	Freezing	Kim	2 episodes
rowspan="2"\|2009	Not Going Out	Dawn	Series 3 episode 2: Winner
The Omid Djalili Show	Beth	1 episode
2010	Dani's House	Miss Batstone	1 episode
rowspan="3"\|2011	Holby City	Rosalind Timms	Series 13 episode 39
Iconicles	Shelly the tortoise	Voice
My Family	Vera	Series 11 episode 11: A Night Out
rowspan="4"\|2012	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Head Juror	1 episode
The Thick of It	Helen Hatley	Series 4; 4 episodes
A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories	Margarita	rowspan="2"\| 1 episode
Little Crackers	Mum
2013	Drifters	Gabby	Series 1 episode 3: Work Experience
rowspan="3"\|2014	Veep	Bank of England lady	1 episode
The Mimic	Harriet	5 episodes
BBC Comedy Feeds	Aoife	1 episode
2015	Cradle to Grave	Ruby / Woman at dinner dance	1 episode
2016	Love, Nina	Yoga Teacher	1 episode
2017	Quacks	Mrs. Roberts / Estelle Rogers	2 episodes
2018	Doctors	Barbara Buckland	Series 19 episode 154
2019	Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	Roamy Cusack	Episode: The Offered Fallacy
rowspan="3"\|2020	There She Goes	Leila	Series 2 episode 3: Headspace
Doctors	Fran Claverley	Series 21 episode 90
Feel Good	Chella Goble	2 episodes
rowspan="2"\|2022	The Serpent Queen	Eleanor of Austria	Series 1; 6 episodes
Breeders	Rheumatologist	Series 3 episode 4: No Body
2023–present	Call the Midwife	Sister Veronica	Series 12; 8 episodes