Briony Behets
Born: 1951-07-21 in London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Briony Behets (born 21 July 1951) is an English-Australian former actress who found fame acting in Australian television soap operas of the 1970s and 1980s. 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. Behets subsequently enjoyed several high-profile television roles in Australia. She was an original cast member of soap opera Number 96 playing Helen Eastwood 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. Film roles included the joint lead with Judy Morris in The Trespassers (1976) for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Award, Raw Deal (1977), Inside Looking Out (1977), Long Weekend (1978). 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. 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.
Filmography
2008
- Not Quite Hollywood as Self
2001
- The Saddle Club as Elizabeth Regnery
1997
- Allie & Me as Woman in Salon
1995
- JAG as Jenny
1990
- Flair as Samantha Harmon
1989
- E Street as Margaret Bennett
1988
- The Heroes as Alice
1987
- Cassandra as Helen
1986
- The Flying Doctors as Jean Lambert
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Melba Drummond
- Innocent Prey ... (Continuity)
1983
- Skin Deep as Barbara Kennedy
1980
- Nightmares as Angela
1979
- Long Weekend as Marcia
1977
- Inside Looking Out as Elizabeth
1976
- The Young Doctors
- Bluey as Karen Wallace
- Alvin Purple as Pam
- The Trespassers as Penny
1974
- Class of... as Jorja Jones
- Alvin Rides Again as Girl in Taxi
1973
- The Evil Touch as Miss Prentice
- Night of Fear as Horse Girl
1972
- Number 96 as Helen Eastwood
- Birds in the Bush
1971
- Matlock Police as Joyce Roberts
1964
- Homicide as Helen Green