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Vera Bennett is a character in the TV series "Wentworth". Vera made her first appearance in the show's debut episode. Vera is portrayed by Australian actress Kate Atkinson. Vera's main storylines within the series have seen her have a relationship with fellow officer Matthew Fletcher (Aaron Jeffery), get manipulated by Joan Ferguson (Pamela Rabe), murder her ill, abusive mother (Lynette Curran) and receive Hepatitis C during a prison riot caused by Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack).

Reception
Kate Atkinson has been described in her role as Vera as "achieving an uncannily familiar portrait of a still-innocent Vera Bennett."

When writing about the first episode, Elaine Atwell of AfterEllen described Vera as "soon to be your favorite guard on earth"

Ian Hollingshead of The Telegraph said about Vera "Unusually for a prison drama, the wardens were more than psychopathic ciphers. Miss Bennett (Kate Atkinson), the deputy governor, even tried to make friends with the prisoners."