Briony Behets

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.

Most Known For

JAG

as Jenny

Murder, She Wrote

as Melba Drummond

The Flying Doctors

as Jean Lambert

Number 96

as Helen Eastwood (credit only)

Number 96

as Helen Eastwood

E Street

as Margaret Bennett

Homicide

as Helen Green

Matlock Police

as Joyce Roberts

The Saddle Club

as Elizabeth Regnery

Class of...

as Jorja Jones

Cassandra

as Helen

The Young Doctors

The Evil Touch

as Miss Prentice

Bluey

as Karen Wallace

Allie & Me

as Woman in Salon

Not Quite Hollywood

as Self

Skin Deep

as Barbara Kennedy

Alvin Purple

as Pam

Nightmares

as Angela

Flair

as Samantha Harmon