Rebecca Elizabeth Breeds is an Australian actress known for her roles as Cassie Cometti in the third series of Blue Water High, as series regular Ruby Buckton in the soap opera Home and Away and as Aurora de Martel in The Originals.
Education
Breeds attended Sutherland Shire Christian School, and then Street Andrew"s Cathedral School, where she was made Drama Captain. Foreign six months, she studied a double degree in music and performing arts at University of New South Wales, before deferring her studies for a film role.
Career
At the end of 2005, Breeds, in her capacity as Drama Captain, along with the Music Captain organised a Year 12 Revue. Breeds began her acting career with appearances in television commercials, followed by a guest role in a 2000 episode of Water Rats called "Jump in the Mouth". She landed her first lead role as Leah Pointin in the 2008 Australian film Newcastle.
Breeds played Cassie Cometti in the third series of Blue Water High.
lieutenant was during filming on Blue Water High that she successfully auditioned for the role of Ruby Buckton on Home and Away, and her first scenes aired in June 2008. In June 2012, television Week"s Erin Miller reported that Breeds had filmed her final scenes and had left Home and Away after four years.
The actress made her last appearance as Ruby during the episode broadcast on 15 August 2012. In August 2012, Nellie Andreeva from Deadline.com announced that Breeds had been cast in Rob Greenberg"s We Are Men as Abby Russo.
We Are Men marked her first United States television role, however, the show was cancelled after poor ratings.
Breeds also appears in the 2013 Hindi-language Bollywood film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. In 2015, Breeds appeared in the sixth season of Pretty Little Liars and was cast as Aurora in the supernatural series The Originals. Breeds played Molly Meldrum"s fiancée Camille in the 2016 miniseries Molly.
On 19 February 2016, it was announced that Breeds will star in Miranda"s Rights, a legal soap about a group of lawyers who work and live together.
Breeds was cast as the title character Miranda Coale after a competitive audition process.