Rebecca Gethings is an English actress best known for her roles in film and television comedies such as The Thick of It, Extras, The Mimic, David Brent: Life on the Road and Call the Midwife.
[2] Iannucci later cast her as Helen Hatley, the ambitious special adviser to Nicola Murray in the fourth and final series of The Thick of It.
In 2016, she worked again with Gervais, playing Miriam, the head of Human Resources in David Brent: Life on the Road.
[5] From January 2023, Gethings portrayed Sister Veronica in the twelfth series of BBC period drama Call the Midwife.
[10] Gethings' stage work includes The Vegemite Tales at The Venue (2006),[11][12][13] Blessie Blatt in Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court Theatre[14] (which was later produced as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, featuring Gethings in the same role)[15] and the West End theatre production of Maxim Gorky's Vassa.