If you’ve watched TV at all over the past five decades, you will have spent time with Belinda Giblin. The soapie star has acted in classics such as Sons and Daughters, The Sullivans and Heartbreak High. In Home and Away, she has played not one but two different roles – first Cynthia Ross in the early 90s, then Martha Stewart, the long-presumed-dead wife of Alf, from 2018.
Giblin grew up in Tamworth in the 1950s and began acting in the 70s after a year at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (Nida). She is still working today, currently preparing to star in the Griffin Theatre production Ghosting the Party, which runs from 6 May to 11 June in Sydney. It’s a pitch-black comedy in which Giblin plays an 87-year-old who decides her time has come, forcing three generations of family to face brutal questions about mortality.
