Briony Behets (born in 1952, United Kingdom) is a British-born actress who found fame acting in Australian soap operas of the 1970s. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Her father's work as a civil engineer took him around the world and as a result much of Behet's childhood was spent in Germany, Africa and Sierra Leone before returning to England. At age 17 she was accepted into the 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. 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. The GSMD seen across the Barbican lake. ... Birds in the Bush was a UK-Australian situation comedy series produced in 1972. ...
Behets subsequently enjoyed several high-profile television roles in Australia. She was an original cast member of adult soap opera Number 96 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 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 on-going role in school-based teen soap Class of '75. In women's prison soap opera Prisoner in 1979 she portrayed Susan Rice, the unbalanced wife of a popular celebrity. Later soap roles included appearances in Possession as the mother of a spoiled child actor, in Neighbours as the mother of regular character Jane Harris, and in E Street as the mother of Lisa Bennett. Number 96 was a revolutionary Australian daily soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block that gave the shows title. ... The Box was a popular Australian soap opera than ran on Network Ten from 1974 until 1977. ... Bellbird was a country based daily soap opera screened for 15 minutes each night by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation before the evening news. ... Class of 74 was a secondary school based daily soap opera produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and screened on Channel Seven Australia starting March 1974. ... Possession is an Australian television series screened in 1985 and made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Nine Network. ... This article is about the soap opera Neighbours. ... E Street is an Australian television soap opera produced by the Ten Network from 1989 to 1993. ...
She has also acted in television guest starring roles in Australian and US drama series, including Homicide, Matlock Police and Bluey in the 1970s and A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors and Murder She Wrote in the 1980s. Film roles included the co-lead with Judy Morris in The Tresspassers (1976) for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Award, Raw Deal (1977), Outside Looking In (1977), Long Weekend (1978), and Cassandra (1986).-1... Matlock Police is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the O-10 Network between 1971 and 1975. ... Bluey is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network in 1976. ... A Country Practice was one of the longest-running Australian television drama series. ... The Flying Doctors was an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. ... Categories: Television stubs | Crime television series ...
In 1990 she was cast as the lead in the ill fated Granada Television soap Families. Into the 2000s she continued acting in Australian television series and minseries. In the 2000s she also guest starred in some US drama series such as JAG. She is now retired from acting and lives in the US. This article is about the year. ... Current ITV Granada logo A Granada TV logo from the black and white era. ... Families was a daytime soap opera produced by Granada Television and created by Kay Mellor. ... JAG (the American Military acronym for Judge Advocate General) was an American adventure drama television show, produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Television Network. ...
With: Don Halbert as Mr O'Leary, Ted Hamilton as Merlin, Aljin Abella as Spencer, BrionyBehets as Louise Rosen, Dennis Coard as Harve Rosen, Mercia Deane-Johns as Morgana La Fay, Ian Dixon as Gadowain, Bridget Neval as Reine, Katie Campbell as Wind, Vanessa Elliott as Fire, Leigh Bowman as Brad, Abigail Collins as Fern
With: Aljin Abella as Spencer, BrionyBehets as Louise Rosen, Pepe Trevor as Ms Blatt, Nigel Rodriguez as Principal Parker, Trudy Helleir as Karen Jones, Katie Campbell as Wind, Vanessa Elliott as Fire, Leigh Bowman as Brad, Adrian Foley as Gord
With: Aljin Abella as Spencer, Ian Dixon as Gadowain, Ted Hamilton as Merlin, Nigel Rodriguez as Principal Parker, BrionyBehets as Louise Rosen, Bridget Neval as Reine, Katie Campbell as Wind, Vanessa Elliott as Fire, Leigh Bowman as Brad, Adrian Foley as Gord, Thomas Blackburne as Evan Williams, Matthew Jamieson as Joey
Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (BrionyBehets) go on holiday to a remote part of the Australian coast, in a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage.
Behets has in many ways a more difficult role: as we dont know at first the reasons for the marriage breakdown, her character risks being unsympathetic.
Although she had acted before and continues to do so, this was a rare lead role for her and it remains her best.
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