Rebecca Riggs

Rebecca Riggs is an Australian actress best known for her role as Commandant Grayza in the science fiction television series Farscape.

Career

Film

Riggs had parts in films such as Jerry Maguire and Raw Nerve.

Television

Riggs played the recurring role of Commandant Grayza in the TV show Farscape.

She has also appeared in many Australian television series including Backberner, All Saints, Day of the Roses, Medivac and Fire.

Theatre

Riggs has appeared as a stage performer in Australia with such companies as Bell Shakespeare Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Darwin Theatre Company, La Boite and TN.

She has undertaken a variety of theatre roles . She has played Juliet and Lady Capulet in two different productions of Romeo and Juliet, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Trinculo in The Tempest, Bianca in Othello, Viola in Twelfth Night and Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. She has also appeared in modern Australian plays including the musicals Summer Rain and an acclaimed performance as Judy Garland in The Boy from Oz.

Riggs has performed a one woman/fifteen character show The Tall Green Stranger in the Ceramic Pot, and also in cabarets at the L.A. Creation Conventions in 2009 and 2011: The Shower Show (2009) and Witch Way? (2011).

She has performed with many improvisational troupes throughout Australia and has sung with bands, choirs and a cappella groups such as Darc Marc, The Lutin Girls Choir, The Star Pickets, Schrödinger's Cats, and many more.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Type 1990 Raw Nerve Feature film 1996 Jerry Maguire Feature film 1999 Alien Cargo Meryl Leonardi, SSS17 Sleeper Feature film

Television Year Title Role Type 1995 Fire Jane Connor TV series, 2 episodes 1995 Space: Above and Beyond Mrs Vansen TV series, 1 episode 1996 Medivac Mary Jessup TV series, 1 episode 1996 Gladiators Competitor TV game show 1998 Day of the Roses Cherilyn Skow TV miniseries, 2 episodes Backberner TV series 1999-2005 All Saints Jenny Carmichael / Brenda Stewart TV series, 2 episodes: Desperate Remedies, False Convictions 2002-03 Farscape Commandant Grayza TV series, 12 episodes 2004 Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Commandant Grayza TV miniseries, 2 episodes 2019 Reef Break Jan / Realtor TV series, 1 episode 2020 The End Ella the Group Leader TV series, 1 episode

Personal life

She is also now committed to refining communication in disaster and crisis through her work with consultancy Crisis Ready and the not for profit organization Emergency Media and Public Affairs. She is a fan of the Sci Fi genre.