Briony Behets
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.465 |
Birthday | 1951-07-21 |
Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
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1997
Allie & Me
3/3
Beverly Hills wife Michelle catches her husband in bed with her best friend Allie, who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Shortly thereafter,...
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Allie & Me
1974
Alvin Rides Again
4.8/8
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
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Alvin Rides Again
1979
Long Weekend
6.1/167
When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
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Long Weekend
1988
The Heroes
5.3/5
Based on a true story, The Heroes follows one of the most extraordinary and heroic exploits of World War II. After months of rigorous training in the...
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The Heroes
1976
The Trespassers
0/0
In 1970, political journalist Richard lives with Penny but is having an affair with actress Dee. The two woman meet and become friends.
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The Trespassers
1977
Inside Looking Out
0/0
The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a...
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Inside Looking Out
1973
Night of Fear
5.5/19
A young girl who has just spent an afternoon playing tennis and making love with a man, gets accidentally run off the road by a truck. Ending up on a...
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Night of Fear
1980
Nightmares
5.2/20
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death i...
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Nightmares
1983
Skin Deep
10/2
Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
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Skin Deep
1987
Cassandra
6.9/8
A young woman has eerie flashes of recovered memories of her brother committing a murder, despite her parents assurance that all is well.
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Cassandra
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
6.8/87
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...
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