Belinda Giblin

Giblin was born in Tamworth, New South Wales, to Phyllis and Ted, she has two older brothers Ted Jn. and Graham and a younger sister Allison. Her father Ted was a doctor at the Tamworth Base Hospital. Her mother ran the dramatic society, and acted and directed in productions^[1] but then died of breast cancer when she was 23, her dad died when he was 83.^[2] Giblin was offered a scholarship to the Australian Ballet School when she was 17, but chose to study arts at the University of Sydney. Then she studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, before leaving after a year to practise her craft.^[3]

Career

She played in the risqué, satirical 1970s soap opera The Box as Kay Webster,^[1] and the in the 1980s melodrama Sons and Daughters as Alison Carr. The Alison Carr character was revealed to be the post-plastic surgery incarnation of the show's original and much vaunted villain, 'Pat the Rat' – Patricia Hamilton,^[4] originally played by Rowena Wallace. Giblin was cast in the role because of her resemblance to Wallace.^[5]

Giblin appeared in numerous roles by