Born in Levin, New Zealand on December 14th 1964, the youngest of six children. Brought up in Wellington, she moved to Australia at the age of 19.
After working as a model, she broke in to television with the role of "Julie Davis" in the children's series The Zoo People in 1985 and went on to play 'Emma Plimpton' for four years in the successful drama series The Flying Doctors.
The title character of Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p was created especially for her.
Rebecca Gibney has been married twice, firstly to Jack Jones in 1992, which ended in divorce. She married Richard Bell in November 2001 and is expecting her first child in early 2004.
She will appear in the movie adaptation of Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot to be released in 2004.