Rebekah Elmaloglou

Career

Rebekah Elmaloglou's career spans film, television, and stage. She started with roles in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Five Times Dizzy (1986), and Jocelyn Moorhouse's debut film The Siege of Barton's Bathroom (1986). She also appeared in Relatives, In Too Deep (also known as Mack the Knife) (1989), Love in Limbo (1993), and the 1988 telemovie Princess Kate. In 1989, she had a two-week guest stint as asthmatic street-kid Simone on E Street, then immediately landed a regular role as Sophie Simpson on Home and Away, which she played from 1990 to 1993.

She left the soap in late 1992 and traveled to the UK to appear in a production of Cinderella during the pantomime season, later performing in Aladdin. After Home and Away, Elmaloglou starred alongside Russell Crowe in the Australian film The Sum of Us (1994), a role she relished and compared to her soap work. She guest-starred on A Country Practice as Christine Agapitos, a love interest for Hugo Strzelecki. In 1994, she performed on stage at the Sydney Opera House in Caravan.

In a 1995 interview, she stated that she did not receive the offers she had anticipated after leaving Home and Away and that finding work was a struggle. She appeared on Pacific Drive in 1996 as a victim of incest who turns to drugs, and later played a 'publicity whore' in an episode of Life Support. She posed naked in a Gothic-themed set of photographs for the Australian celebrity nude art magazine Black+White. In 2000, she guest-starred on All Saints as Justine Addison, a pregnant woman whose husband is injured in a workplace accident.

On 7 February 2013, it was announced that Elmaloglou had joined the cast of Neighbours as Terese Willis, a role she remained in until the show's then-final episode on 28 July 2022. She continued in the part when Neighbours was picked up by Amazon Freevee in 2023. In January 2026, she was announced as a contestant on the twelfth season of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which was pre-filmed in December 2025. She was eliminated on 18 February 2026, placing fourth overall.

Did You Know?

• Elmaloglou was born at the Royal Women's Hospital in Paddington, New South Wales, to a Greek father who was principal cello in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and an English mother who was a kindergarten teacher.
• She left school at age 15 and trained at the Keane Kids studios in Sydney, studying acting, singing, and dancing.
• Dame Judi Dench is a cousin of Elmaloglou.
• Two of her brothers, Dominic and Sebastian Elmaloglou, have also appeared on Home and Away, and another brother works as a crew member on the show.
• She has been married to Kane Baker since 2009, and they have a son born in 2008.