Rebecca Gilling

Birth : 1953-11-03,

History

Rebecca Gilling (born 3 November 1953 in Castlecrag, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actress. Her first acting role was in Stone (1974) but who came to prominence as the "bad girl" flight attendant Diana Moore in the feature film version of soap opera Number 96 (1974). Her next acting role was in The Man from Hong Kong (1975). Gilling went on to act in several television series. She was a regular support character in Glenview High (1977) and then played the key role of Liz Kennedy in The Young Doctors. Gilling later achieved international recognition for her role as the heroine, Stephanie Harper, in both the mini-series (1983) and subsequent series of Return to Eden (1986). She also appeared in The Naked Country (1985) and in TV series City West (1984), The Blue Lightning (1986), A Dangerous Life (1988), Danger Down Under (1988) and The Paper Man (1990).

Profile

Movies

Not Quite Hollywood

Self

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Heaven Tonight

Annie Dysart

The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but his son becomes a star of techno-pop music.

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park

Aileen

Danger Down Under

Sharon Harris

The story of an American horse-breeder living in Australia who is the single father of three sons.

The Blue Lightning

Kate McQueen

Harry Wingate, a rugged adventurer, is hired by a gem collector to retrieve a priceless opal, known as "The Blue Lightning," from Lester McInally, a super-criminal with an army of killers operating in the Australian outback.

The Naked Country

Mary Dillon

Far North Queensland, 1955. Deep in the untamed frontier tough rancher Lance Dillon and his sensual, but bored wife, battle inhospitable nature to eke out a living from their cattle herd. When the aborigines kill the Dillon's prize bull a chase begins that will culminate in bloody tragedy with Lance pitted against Mandaru - an aborigine struggling to maintain his cultural way of life

The Man from Hong Kong

Angelica

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

Number 96

Diana Moore

Further adventures of the "Number 96" (1972) crew, on the big screen.

Stone

Vanessa

After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.