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Briony Behets (born 1951, London, United Kingdom) is an English-Australian actress who found fame acting in Australian soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s

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Briony Behets
Born	1951 (age 70–71) London, England, United Kingdom
Education	Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1970-2008

Early life

Behets' father worked as a civil engineer, which took him around the world and as a result much of Behets' childhood was spent in Germany, Africa and Sierra Leone before returning to England. At age 17 she was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying there for two years. After completing the course she travelled to the United States as part of a student exchange project, working there as a nightclub dancer.[1]

Career

At age 19, she travelled to Australia to take a regular role in comedy series Birds in the Bush (1972), and decided to stay in the country when production ceased on the series after 13 episodes.

Behets subsequently enjoyed several high-profile television roles in Australia. She was an original cast member of soap opera Number 96 playing Helen Eastwood[2] in 1972 but her character was written out of the serial after only a few months. She was subsequently a member of the original cast of another adult soap The Box starting in 1974 and her role in that series lasted 14 months. After leaving The Box she appeared for a short stint in Bellbird before taking an ongoing role in the school-based teen soap Class of '75.

Behets was also a longtime weather presenter on ATV-10 Melbourne's news bulletins during the mid-1970s. She also acted in television guest starring roles in Australian drama series, including Homicide, Matlock Police, Bluey, Cop Shop, The Young Doctors and Chopper Squad, also in the 1970s. In 1979 in the women's prison soap opera Prisoner she portrayed Susan Rice, the unbalanced wife of a popular celebrity.

Film roles included the joint lead with Judy Morris in The Trespassers (1976)[3] for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Award, Raw Deal (1977), Inside Looking Out (1977),[4] Long Weekend (1978).[5]

Later TV guest roles included A Country Practice and The Flying Doctors in the 1980s. Later soap roles included appearances in Possession as the mother of a spoiled child actor; Neighbours[6] as Amanda Harris the mother of regular character Jane Harris; and in E Street as Margaret Bennett, popular character Lisa Bennett's mother, for 6 months, in 1989. She acted in the feature film Cassandra in 1986.

Starting in 1990, she was a regular lead in the Granada Television soap Families. Into the 2000s, she continued acting in Australian television series and miniseries.

In 1996, Behets guest starred on the American television series Murder, She Wrote, Season 12, Episode 20, titled "Southern Double-Cross".

In the 2000s she also guest starred in some US drama series such as JAG. She returned to Neighbours in July 2008, in another role as Kate Newton a romantic interest for Harold Bishop (Ian Smith). She had also starred alongside Ian Smith in Neighbours 21 years earlier in 1987 when she played a different character. Her latest role saw her as a regular on The Saddle Club series three as the second actor to portray Mrs. Reg.[7]

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1972	Night of Fear	Horse rider
1976	The Trespassers	Penny	Nominated – AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Feature film
1977	Raw Deal	Alex's Lady	Feature film
	Inside Looking Out	Elizabeth	Feature film
1978	Long Weekend	Marcia	Feature film
1980	Nightmares	Angela	Feature film
1983	Skin Deep	Barbara	TV film
1986	Cassandra	Helen	Feature film
1997	Allie And Me	Woman in salon	US Feature film
2008	Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!	Herself	Feature film Documentary

TELEVISION

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1971	Tell The Truth	Herself	TV show
1972	Birds In The Bush	Tuesday	TV series, 13 episodes
1972	Number 96	Helen Eastwood	TV series, 25 episodes
1972	All About Faces	Herself	TV game show
1972	The Big Bust-Up	Herself	TV documentary
1974-1975	The Box	Judy Donovan	TV series, 204 episodes
1974	The Evil Touch		TV series, 1 episode
1974	Matlock Police	Joyce Roberts	TV series, 1 episode
1975	Class Of '75	Jorja Jones	TV series, 98 episodes
1975;1977	Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal	Herself	TV telethon
1975	Homicide	Helen Green	TV series, 1 episode
1975	Pot Of Gold	Herself	TV talent show
1975	Bellbird	Claire	ABC TV series, 152 episodes
1975;1976	Ten Eyewitness News Melbourne	Hereself - Weather	News show
1976	Bluey	Kate Wallace	TV series pilot, 1 episode "The First Bloody Day"
1976	Alvin Purple	Pam	ABC TV series, 1 episode
1976	Power Without Glory	Celia	ABC TV miniseries, 1 episode
1976	Ernie	Herself	TV show
1976	Tandarra	Esther Grafton	TV series, 1 episode
1977	Young Ramsay	Chrissie Thompson	TV series, 1 episode
1978	The Lion's Share	Janet Jackson	TV movie
1978;1979;1980	Cop Shop	Felicity Stafford/Julie Gaskin/Diana Elliot/Barbara Sauers/Janie Palmer	TV series, 7 episodes
1979	Chopper Squad	Debbie James	TV series, 1 episode
1979	Prisoner	Susan Rice	TV series, 5 episode
1979	Skyways	Pam McKinnon	TV series, 1 episode
1980	The Talking Bow Tie		Short film
1980	Romance In The Jurgular Vein		TV film
1980	Water Under The Bridge	Claire	TV miniseries, 1 episode
1981	Bellamy	Sharon	TV series, 1 episode "The Axe-Man Cometh
1981	The Young Doctors	Frances Taylor	TV series, 15 episodes
1982	Winner Take All	Carol Catani	ABC TV miniseries, 10 episodes
1982	Holiday Island	unknown role	TV series, 1 episode
1984	Skin Deep	Barbara Ramsay	TV film
1984	A Country Practice	Dee Dee Cash	TV series, 2 episodes
1984	Special Squad	Rhonda Watson	TV series, 1 episode
1985	Possession	Eve Cambridge	TV series
1986	Hunger	Mrs. Levey	ABC TV film
1987;2008	Neighbours	Amanda Harris/Kate Newton	TV series, 20 episodes
1989	The Flying Doctors	Jean Lambert	TV series, 1 episode
1989	E Street	Margaret Bennett	TV series, 25 episodes
1989	The Heroes	Alice	TV miniseries
1989	Living With The Law		ABC TV series
1990	Families	Diana Stevens	TV series, 9 episodes
1990	Flair	Samantha Harmon	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1991	The Midday Show	Herself	TV show
1991	Chances	Dr. Christine Marquette	TV series, 2 episodes
1992	Bony		TV series, 1 episode
1992	In Sydney Today	Herself	TV show
1994	G.P.	Janet Ryan	ABC TV series, 1 episode
1996	Murder, She Wrote	Melba Drummond	US TV series, 1 episode
2000	JAG	Jenny	US TV series, 2 episodes
2002	Marshall Law	Sonia	TV series, 1 episode
2002	Guinevere Jones	Louise Rosen	Children's TV series, 1 episode
2008	Neighbours	Kate Newton	TV series
2008-2009	The Saddle Club	Mrs. Reg/Elizabeth Regnery/Mrs. Reg	Children's TV series, 26 episodes

STAGE/THEATRE

• Don's Party (1975)
• Private Lives (1976)
• It's Ralph (1992)

References

External links

• Briony Behets at IMDb

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