Rebecca Massey

Rebecca Massey
Born
Rotorua, New Zealand
EducationUniversity of Auckland
OccupationActress
Years active1996–present
Websitewww.rebeccamassey.com.au

Rebecca Massey is a New Zealand-born Australian actress who works in theatre, film and television. Her screen credits include the roles of Beverley Sadler in the ABC comedy Utopia and Lucy Cannon in Chandon Pictures. On stage she has appeared with a number of Australian companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare and Griffin Theatre Company.

Early life

Massey was born in Rotorua, New Zealand. She studied law and English at the University of Auckland and worked briefly as a lawyer before turning to acting.[1]

Career

Theatre

Massey began her stage career in New Zealand before relocating to Australia, where she appeared in productions with Company B at Belvoir St Theatre from the mid-1990s, including The Alchemist (1996), The Seagull (1997) and the touring production of Tim Winton's Cloudstreet (1998–2001).[1]

In 2018 she played Environment Minister Gwen Malkin in David Finnigan's Kill Climate Deniers at Griffin Theatre Company.[2][3] In 2024 she appeared in David Finnigan's 44 Sex Acts in One Week, which played at the Canberra Theatre Centre and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[4]

Film and television

Massey played Lucy Cannon in the comedy series Chandon Pictures (2007–2009) and Beverley Sadler in Utopia (2015–2017, 2023).[1] Her other television credits include My Place (2009), Pacific Heat (2016–2017), Metro Sexual (2019–2021) and The Messenger (2023). Her film appearances include Son of the Mask (2005), The Black Balloon (2008), Accidents Happen (2009) and Backyard Ashes (2013).

Awards and nominations

Massey received Helpmann Award nominations for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for The Underpants (2004) and It Just Stopped (2007), and a further Helpmann nomination in the supporting-actress category for Travesties (2010).[5][6] She has also won a Green Room Award and a Glug Award for her stage work.

Year Association Category Nominated work Result
2004 Helpmann Award Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Play The Underpants Nominated
2007 Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Play It Just Stopped Nominated
Green Room Awards Best Female Actress Won
Best Supporting Female Actress Nominated
Glug Awards Best Supporting Actress Won
2010 Best Supporting Actress Travesties Nominated
2018 Sydney Theatre Awards Best New Australian Work Kill Climate Deniers Nominated

Filmography

Rebecca Massey's film and television credits include Chandon Pictures (ABC) which won Best Comedy (AFI, ADG, and AWGIES), Best Original Production (ASTRA), Most Outstanding Light Entertainment (Logies), and Utopia (ABC): which won Best Television Comedy Series (AACTA),[7] Most Outstanding Comedy Program (LOGIES).[8]

Film

Years Title Role Notes
2005 Son of the Mask Clare
2006 Final Call Short film
2008 The Black Balloon Miss Babb
2009 Accidents Happen Louise
2013 Greg's First Day Madam 2 Short film
2013 Backyard Ashes Lilly Waters
2015 Holding the Man Woman from Red Cross
2016 Bad Girl Detective Daniels
2018 Last Ark Captain Shane Hudson Short film
2022 Blaze Jade

Television

Years Title Role Notes
2002 Kangaroo Creek Gang Kristie the Koala Voice
2002 Blood Sports Sarah Television film
2002-6 All Saints Melissa Wilson; Jodie Abbott; Wendy Saralyn 3 episodes
2003 Grass Roots Kirsten Bovie Episode: "Youth"
2004 Small Claims Clare Santarini Television film
2006 Stepfather of the Bride Fiona Television film
2007-9 Chandon Pictures Lucy Cannon 16 episodes
2009 City Homicide Peggy Duval Episode: "Baker's Dozen"
2009 My Place Mrs Benson 6 episodes
2010-12 Lowdown Trudy March 4 episodes
2012 Packed to the Rafters Audrey 2 episodes
2012 Tricky Business Gaye Hudson Episode: "Mothercraft"
2015 Winter Sally McKenzie Episode: "Blow Up"
2015 The Principal Rina 4 episodes
2015-17,23 Utopia Beverley Sadler 11 episodes
2016 Deep Water Sally Williams 2 episodes
2016-17 Pacific Heat Maddie Riggs 13 episodes; Voice
2019 Upright Constable Stacey Episode: "Day Three"
2019 The Letdown Real Estate Agent Julie Episode: "Heavy Heart"
2019-21 Metro Sexual Miranda Graft 5 episodes
2019 Total Control Sharon Episode #1.3
2019 Upright (TV series) Constable Stacey 1 episode
2022 Barons Sylive Thompson 3 episodes
2023 The Messenger Bev Kennedy 6 episodes
2023 While the Men Are Away Brigadier Birdwood 8 episodes
2023 Erotic Stories Roz 1 episode

Theatre

Production Year Venue Company Role(s) Director(s)
The Crucible Mercury Theatre Mercury Theatre Company Susanna Walcott Miles Taylor
The Possibilities Stronghold Theatre Company Ensemble Peter Evans
Daughters of Heaven Auckland Theatre Company Pauline Parker Colin McColl
Evans Freud’s Dora NZ Arts Council Dora Anatoly Frusin
Media Sluts NZ Puppet Theatre The Starlet Peter Evans
Macbeth Wellington International Festival of the Arts Lady Macbeth Peter Evans
The Man from Scotland New Zealand Fringe Festival Peter Evans
Steaming National Tour Gary Penny Productions Dawn Gary Downes
Othello The Mask Company Desdemona Peter Evans
Bad Poetry NIDA NIDA Company Nurse, Sister Peter Kingston
The Alchemist 1996 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Dame Pliant Neil Armfield
WASP 1996 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Zig Zag Woman, Angie, Sis Neil Armfield
The Seagull 1997 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Masha Neil Armfield
Max & The Trickster Australian Museum Trickster Yaron Lifshitz
Cloudstreet 1998 Sydney Festival, Perth Festival Company B Belvoir, Black Swan Elaine, Mrs. Clay, Meredith Neil Armfield
The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1998 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Natella Abashvili Michael Kantor
Henry IV (Parts I & II) 1999 National Tour Bell Shakespeare Lady Percy, Doll Tearsheet Wart John Bell
Valley of the Big Bones 1999 Australian Museum Bjork Mcgurk Warren Coleman
Ship of Fools 1999 Griffin Theatre Company Sunny, Mayor, Anna Lundsdorf, Madame van Eyck Ros Horin
Cloudstreet 1999 Melbourne, Adelaide, Zurich Festival, London, Dublin Festival Company B Belvoir, Black Swan Elaine, Lucy Wentworth, Meredith Neil Armfield
The Small Poppies 1999 Sydney Festival Company B Belvoir Clint's Mum, Courtney Neil Armfield
Australian National Playwrights’ Conference 1999 Richard Wherrett, Ros Horin
The Small Poppies 1999 Dublin Festival, Melbourne Festival Company B Belvoir Clint's Mum, Courtney Neil Armfield
Borderlines 2001 The Griffin Griffin Theatre Company, Riverina Theatre Company Meredith Danni, Ren, Lisa Richard Buckham, Adam Cook, Jeremy Sims
Cloudstreet 2001 National Theatre, BAM, Kennedy Centre Company B Belvoir Elaine Lamb, Lucy Wentworth, Meredith Neil Armfield
The Rood Screen 2001 Development Workshop Alice Anna Messariti
Macbeth 2003 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Witch Michael Kantor
The Underpants 2003 Belvoir Street Theatre Company B Belvoir Gertrude Neil Armfield
Stuff Happens 2005 Seymour Centre Company B Belvoir Various Neil Armfield
It Just Stopped 2006 Company B Belvoir Pearl Neil Armfield
Dead Caesar 2007 Wharf 2 Theater Sydney Theatre Company Calpurnia Tamara Cook
Exit The King 2007 The Merlin, Belvoir Street Theatre Malthouse Theatre Company, Company B Belvoir Queen Mary Neil Armfield
Tartuffe 2008 The Merlin Malthouse Theatre Company Dorine Michael Kantor
Travesties 2009 Sydney Theatre Company Cecily Richard Cottrell
The Book of Everything 2013 Tour Belvoir Margot Neil Armfield
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 2013 Belvoir Street Theatre Belvoir Mae Simon Stone
Vere 2013 Adelaide Festival Centre, Sydney Opera House State Theatre Company of South Australia, Sydney Theatre Company Kate Sarah Goodes
Perplex 2014 Wharf 1 Sydney Theatre Company Rebecca Sarah Giles
After Dinner 2015 Wharf 1 Sydney Theatre Company Dympie Imara Savage
Chimerica 2017 Roslyn Packer Theatre Sydney Theatre Company Barb, Doreen, Marie Dubiecki, Kate, Judy Kip Williams
Dinner 2017 Sydney Opera House Sydney Theatre Company Wynne Imara Savage
Kill Climate Deniers 2018 The Griffin Griffin Theatre Company Gwen Malkin Lee Lewis
The Misanthrope 2018 Sydney Opera House Bell Shakespeare Philipa (Philinte) Lee Lewis
First Love is the Revolution 2019 The Griffin Griffin Theatre Company Cochineal and Bailey Chicken Lee Lewis
Dance Nation 2020 Adelaide Festival Centre Belvoir and State Theatre Company of South Australia Maeve Imara Savage
The Wayside Bride 2022 Belvoir Ursula/Rosie/Dusty/Irma Hannah Goodwin
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 2022 Belvoir Cobbe Eamon Flack
Holding the Man 2024 Belvoir Louis Caleo Eamon Flack
44 Sex Acts in One Week 2024 Clubhouse Productions Malaine Guttierez Sheridan Harbridge
The Double Life of Marie Curie 2025 The Ensemble Theatre Hertha Ayrton Liesel Baddorek

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Biography". Rebecca Massey. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  2. ↑ Foo, Ann (3 March 2018). "Review: Kill Climate Deniers". ArtsHub. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Hatherley, Frank. "Kill Climate Deniers". Stage Whispers. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "On the Couch with Rebecca Massey". Australian Arts Review. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Past nominees and winners 2004". Helpmann Awards. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Past nominees and winners 2007". Helpmann Awards. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "AACTA Awards - Past Awards". AACTA. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  8. ↑ Knox, David (3 May 2015). "TV Week Logie Awards 2015: winners". TV Tonight. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
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