Jessica Napier

Acting

Jessica Napier

Born 1979-04-04 · Wellington, New Zealand

Jessica Napier, born 4 April 1979, is a New Zealand-born actress based in Australia. Her many television credits include Water Rats, Murder Call, Wildside, Echo Point, Stingers, The Alice, and is perhaps best known for her role of Becky Howard in the long-running drama series McLeod's Daughters. She made her film debut in Shirley Barrett's Camera d'Or-winning Love Serenade in 1996, since appearing in a number of feature films, including Blackrock, City Loop, Cut, Angst, The Illustrated Family Doctor and a small part in Ghost Rider.

Acting credits

Ghost Rider poster
5.6

In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a go-getting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery 'Ghost Rider'.

Ghost Rider

2007

Transfusion poster
6.0

Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.

Transfusion

2023

Cut poster
4.6

A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...

Cut

2000

Lynx poster
NR

Lynx, a fearsome and expensive assassin for hire, takes on a double mission in Serbia, which ultimately leads her to face something she is positive doesn't exist - her own conscience.

Lynx

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story poster
7.0

As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story

2001

City Loop poster
4.7

City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go

City Loop

2000

Blackrock poster
5.5

In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

Blackrock

1997

Love Serenade poster
6.0

Two sisters in an Australian country town develop a fierce and competitive crush on their new neighbour, a brooding and self-centred radio personality.

Love Serenade

1996

Underbelly Files: Infiltration poster
4.2

It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.

Underbelly Files: Infiltration

2011

The Alice poster
7.0

Alice Springs is the scene of an enchanting date with destiny. Great planetary forces are at work, drawing people to a total eclipse of the sun - An unorthodox hero seeking the love of his life, a central Australian tour gone wrong, a young romantic lost in the desert, a rogue road train and a young woman having fantasies about killing her drop-kick of a husband...

The Alice

2004

Angst poster
5.0

An aspiring horror movie writer searches for love in a world of heartache, desperation and fluffy toys.

Angst

2000

The Illustrated Family Doctor poster
7.0

Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.

The Illustrated Family Doctor

2005

Moon Rock for Monday poster
6.3

Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.

Moon Rock for Monday

2021

Savages Crossing poster
3.3

When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.

Savages Crossing

2011

Safety in Numbers poster
3.8

Several survival contestants return to the island for a weekend TV reunion show get more than they bargain for when they disappear one by one.

Safety in Numbers

2006