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, David Brent: Life on the Road and Call the Midwife.

Early life
Rebecca Gethings was born in 1976 in Alberta, Canada, and moved to Berkshire, England, with her family whilst still a child. She trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Film and television
Gethings has collaborated several times with Armando Iannucci, improvising with the US cast of Veep, in which she also appears. 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.

Gethings played Lizzie in episode 4 of 'Extras', directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. In 2016, she worked again with Gervais, playing Miriam, the head of Human Resources in David Brent: Life on the Road.

In 2017, Gethings appeared as Jane in Mad to Be Normal.

In March 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Fran Claverley.

From January 2023, Gethings portrayed Sister Veronica in the twelfth series of BBC period drama Call the Midwife. She later told Radio Times: "I was just blown away by how welcome I was made by the cast. How kind and generous they all were to me, and patient. I love Sister Veronica because she’s naughty, and so I hope she gets to do a little bit more naughtiness."

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.

Theatre
Gethings' stage work includes The Vegemite Tales at The Venue (2006),  Blessie Blatt in Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre (which was later produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, featuring Gethings in the same role) 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. They have two children. In May 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, Gethings and her then three-year-old daughter produced a podcast titled Dear Crocodile.