Rebecca Gethings

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 and David Brent: Life on the Road.

Career

Television

Gethings has collaborated several times with Armando Iannucci, improvising with the US cast of Veep, in which she also appears.[1] 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.[2] In March 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Fran Claverley.[3]

Voice work

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.[4]

Film

She worked with Ricky Gervais, playing Miriam, the head of Human Resources in David Brent: Life on the Road, released in August 2016.[5][6] Her film work also includes Casino Royale and Mad to Be Normal.

Theatre

Gethings' stage work includes Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre[7] 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.[8] They have one daughter.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2006Casino RoyaleHot Room Technician #2
2016David Brent: Life on the RoadMiriam Clark
2017Mad to Be NormalJane Simons
2017You, Me and HimBiggles Tilsbury

References
  1. "rebecca-gethings". rebecca-gethings. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. "Funny girls". 7 September 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. Writer: Kim Millar; Director: John Maidens; Producer: Peter Leslie Wild (25 March 2020). "Privilege". Doctors. BBC. BBC One.
  4. "Actors". Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  5. "Rebecca Gethings – Movies 2016". www.cinemablog.me. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  6. "Rebecca Gethings". IMDb. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  7. Royal Court:Chicken Soup With Barley
  8. "Rebecca Gethings (@RGethings) on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
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