Rebecca Gilling

Acting

Rebecca Gilling

Born 1953-11-03

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).

Acting credits

The Man from Hong Kong poster
6.6

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng 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.

The Man from Hong Kong

1975

Not Quite Hollywood poster
6.7

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.

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

Stone poster
6.0

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.

Stone

1974

The Blue Lightning poster
6.7

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 Blue Lightning

1986

Feathers poster
10.0

Conflicts of interest arise when a country couple are visited by a couple from the city.

Feathers

1987

Danger Down Under poster
4.0

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

Danger Down Under

1988

The Naked Country poster
4.5

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 Naked Country

1985

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park poster
NR

Simon Templar thwarts a Hong Kong syndicate's takeover of a businessman's Australian fun park.

The Saint: Fear in Fun Park

1989

Heaven Tonight poster
4.3

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.

Heaven Tonight

1990

Number 96 poster
3.3

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

Number 96

1974