
Person
Briony Behets
Acting · Born 1951-07-21 · London, England, UK
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.
Known for

JAG
Jenny

Murder, She Wrote
Melba Drummond

Matlock Police
Joyce Roberts

Number 96
Helen Eastwood

E Street
Margaret Bennett

The Flying Doctors
Jean Lambert

Homicide
Helen Green
Class of...
Jorja Jones

The Saddle Club
Elizabeth Regnery

The Young Doctors
1976
Filmography
- 2008Not Quite HollywoodSelf
- 2001The Saddle ClubElizabeth Regnery
- 1997Allie & MeWoman in Salon
- 1995JAGJenny
- 1990FlairSamantha Harmon
- 1989E StreetMargaret Bennett
- 1988The HeroesAlice
- 1987CassandraHelen
- 1986The Flying DoctorsJean Lambert
- 1984Innocent PreyContinuity
- 1984Murder, She WroteMelba Drummond
- 1983Skin DeepBarbara Kennedy
- 1980NightmaresAngela
- 1979Long WeekendMarcia
- 1977Inside Looking OutElizabeth
- 1976The Young Doctors
- 1976The TrespassersPenny
- 1976Alvin PurplePam
- 1976BlueyKaren Wallace
- 1974Alvin Rides AgainGirl in Taxi
- 1974Class of...Jorja Jones
- 1973The Evil TouchMiss Prentice
- 1973Night of FearHorse Girl
- 1972Birds in the Bush
- 1972Number 96Helen Eastwood
- 1971Matlock PoliceJoyce Roberts
- 1964HomicideHelen Green
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