Antonia Prebble

Antonia Mary Prebble (born on 6 June 1984 in Wellington) is a New Zealand actress most famous for her role as Loretta West in the television show Outrageous Fortune, as Trudy in The Tribe, and as Jane in The Blue Rose.

Early life and education

Born on 6 June 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand, Antonia Mary Prebble is the middle of three children of John Prebble, a Sussex-born^[1] barrister and solicitor and a law professor at Victoria University of Wellington,^[2] and Nicola Mary Riddiford, an English teacher;^[3] Prebble has an older sister, Becky, and a younger brother, Ben, both of whom studied law.^[3] Her uncle Richard Prebble is a former politician. Another uncle, Mark Prebble, is the former head of the State Services Commission.

Prebble attended Queen Margaret College between 1999 and 2001 and was Prefect in charge of Arts and Proxime Accessit in her final year.^[4] She then matriculated to Victoria University of Wellington, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics.^[3] Initially, Prebble had been studying for a Bachelor of Laws before she switched programs.^[5][3]

Prebble can speak French.^[3]

Career

She became interested in acting at an early age, starring in the stage play The Magical Kingdom of Thingymijig in 1993. Throughout the late 1990s Antonia started to work a lot with New Zealand children's TV production companies, having starring and guest roles in several programmes. Two of her larger roles include that of Mandy McFarlane in Mirror Mirror 2 in 1997 and as Trudy in five series' of The Tribe from 1999 to 2003. She has also guest starred in two episodes of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder as Krista, alongside two of her fellow cast members from The Tribe. In 2006, she began her role in Power Rangers: Mystic Force as Clare, Udonna's apprentice and the Gatekeeper.

In 2005, she went on to win a place in the main cast of the new New Zealand comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune, where she plays 15-year-old movie buff Loretta West. In February 2010, filming wrapped for the sixth and final series of Outrageous Fortune. At the end of the fifth series, Loretta had married Hayden Peters (played by Shane Cortese), her partner and the father of her child. By the end of the series, Loretta West had become a smart and successful business entrepreneur and a madame of a brothel. The final episode of the series aired 9 November 2010.

Antonia also made a cameo appearance in the band Flip Grater's music video for "Careful". Antonia is also a television presenter, having hosted New Zealand's WNTV (What Now Television) from 2002 to 2003.

Antonia played a cameo role in the TVNZ series The Almighty Johnsons as a red-herring for the identity of Goddess Frig in the shows first season in 2011.

Filmography

Television

Crew

• Futile Attraction (2004) (special thanks)

References

External links

• Antonia Prebble website
• Antonia Prebble at the Internet Movie Database
• Antonia Prebble at TV.com