Biographie
Rebecca Massey, born in Rotorua, New Zealand in 1969, is an actress based in Sydney.
Her first professional role came at age 17 in a production of The Crucible with the Mercury Theatre Company (now Auckland Theatre Company). She later starred in Daughters of Heaven, which opened the Auckland Theatre Company. Rebecca was a founding member of Stronghold Theatre Company alongside Peter Evans, whom she married. After graduating from Auckland Law School, she relocated to Australia to pursue acting. She also toured New Zealand with an Australian production of Steaming, performing alongside Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, and the late Cornelia Frances.
Upon moving to Sydney, director Neil Armfield cast her in The Alchemist, performing with Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving, and Max Cullen. She maintained a steady collaboration with Armfield at Company B until his departure as artistic director in 2010. During this period, she received a Glug Award and a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and was nominated twice for Helpmann Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Steve Martin's The Underpants and Steven Sewell's It Just Stopped. Much of her time was devoted to touring internationally with Cloudstreet, the adaptation by Nick Enright and Justin Monjo of Tim Winton's acclaimed novel celebrating Australia.
Rebecca has regularly shared the stage with some of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett in The Seagull, Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King, The Small Poppies, and The Alchemist, Barry Otto in Steve Martin's WASP and Molière's Tartuffe (1925), as well as Julie Forsyth and Jacek Koman. She was part of the opening of the Belvoir Street Theatre alongside Catherine McClements and John Wood in It Just Stopped.
Since 2010, she has worked with the Malthouse Theatre, the State Theatre Company of South Australia in John Doyle's Vere (Faith), and the Griffin Theatre Company in David Finigan's Kill Climate Deniers. Her Sydney Theatre Company credits include Travesties, Vere (Faith), Perplex, After Dinner by Andrew Bovell, Lucy Kirkwood's Chimerica, and Moira Buffini's Dinner.
Her film and television work features the award-winning ABC series Chandon Pictures (2007), which earned Best Comedy at the AFI, ADG, and AWGIE Awards, Best Original Production at the ASTRA Awards, and Most Outstanding Light Entertainment at the Logies. She also appeared in Utopia (2014), which won Best Television Comedy Series at the AACTA Awards and Most Outstanding Comedy Program at the Logies.
Additional TV credits include Lowdown (2010), My Place (2009), Stepfather of the Bride (2006), and Deep Water (2016). Her film roles include Son of the Mask (2005), Stepfather of the Bride (2006), Accidents Happen (2009), Lowdown (2010), Backyard Ashes (2013), The Principal (2015), and Bad Girl (2016).
Rebecca is married and has a daughter.
