Biography
Rebecca Massey is a Sydney based actress born in Rotorua, New Zealand in 1969.
Rebecca's first professional job was at the age of 17 in a production of the Crucible with the Mercury Theatre Company (now Auckland Theatre Company). She went on to star in Daughters of Heaven, opening the Auckland Theatre Company. She was a founding member of Stronghold Theatre company with Peter Evans, whom she married. After graduating from Auckland Law School she moved to Australia to begin a career as an actress. Later, Rebecca toured New Zealand with an Australian production of Steaming with Liz Burch, Lenore Smith and the late Cornelia Frances.
After moving to Sydney Australia, Director Neil Armfield cast her in The Alchemist, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and Max Cullen. She worked consistently with Armfield at Company B until Armfield's resignation as artistic director of the theatre in 2010. During that time she was awarded a Glug and a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and nominated for two Helpmann Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Steve Martin's The Underpants and Steven Sewell's It Just Stopped. Much of the time in those years was taken up with touring the world with the epic Cloudstreet, Nick Enright and Justin Monjo's adaptation of Tim Winton's celebration of Australia by the novel of the same name.
She has consistently performed alongside many of Australia's great actors and actresses including Cate Blanchett (The Seagull), Geoffrey Rush (Exit the King, The Small Poppies, The Alchemist), Barry Otto (in Steve Martin's WASP and in Molière's Tartuffe (1925)), Julie Forsyth, and Jacec Koman. Rebecca opened the new theatre Belvoir Street together with Catherine McClements and John Woods in It Just Stopped.
Since 2010 she worked with the Malthouse Theatre, the State Theatre of South Australia in John Doyle's play, Vere (Faith), The Griffin Theatre Company in Kill Climate Deniers by David Finigan. For the Sydney Theatre Company she has appeared in Travesties, Vere (Faith), Perplex, After Dinner by Andrew Bovell, Lucy Kirkwood's play Chimerica and Moira Buffini's play 'Dinner'.
Rebecca's film and television credits include the award winning Chandon Pictures (2007)(ABC) which won Best Comedy (AFI, ADG and AWGIES), Best Original Production (ASTRA), Most Outstanding Light Entertainment (LOGIES), and Utopia (2014) (ABC): which won Best Television Comedy Series (AACTA), Most Outstanding Comedy Program (LOGIES)
Other television credits include Lowdown (2010), My Place (2009), Stepfather of the Bride (2006), Deep Water (2016).
Film credits she is known for are Son of the Mask (2005), Stepfather of the Bride (2006), Accidents Happen (2009), Lowdown (2010), Backyard Ashes (2013), The Principal (2015), Bad Girl (2016).
Rebecca is married and has a daughter.
