Antonia Prebble Biography
Antonia Prebble (Antonia Mary Prebble) is a New Zealand actress, best known for her role as Loretta West in the hit NZ comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune, as Jane in The Blue Rose, and as Trudy in The Tribe. Internationally, Prebble is best known for her role as Clare Langtree, the Gatekeeper in Power Rangers Mystic Force.
Antonia Prebble Education
Antonia Prebble attended Queen Margaret College between 1999 and 2001 and was Prefect in charge of Arts and Proxime Accessit in her final year. She then enrolled to Victoria University of Wellington, where she studied a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. Initially, she had been studying for a Bachelor of Laws before she switched programs.
Antonia Prebble Career
Prebble became interested in acting at an early age, starring in the stage play The Magical Kingdom of Thingymijig in 1993. Throughout the late 1990s, she started to work a lot with New Zealand children’s TV production companies, having starring and guest roles in several programmes.
Two of Prebble’s larger roles include that of Mandy McFarlane in the second season of Mirror, Mirror in 1997, and as Trudy in five series’ of The Tribe from 1999 to 2003. Prebble 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, Prebble began her role in Power Rangers: Mystic Force as Clare Langtree, the Gatekeeper and Udonna’s apprentice.
She made a cameo appearance in the band Flip Grater’s music video for “Careful”. From 2002 to 2003, she was a television presenter, having hosted New Zealand’s WNTV (What Now Television).
Antonia Prebble PhotoIn 2005, Prebble won a place in the main cast of the new New Zealand comedy-drama Outrageous Fortune, where she played 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.
She had a cameo role in the TVNZ series The Almighty Johnsons as a red-herring for the identity of the Norse goddess, Frigg in the show’s first season in 2011. The real ‘Frigg’ was eventually played by her former Outrageous Fortune co-star Siobhan Marshall, who had played her on-screen sister, Pascalle.
In 2013, Prebble and Marshall teamed up again for the mystery thriller, The Blue Rose. In 2015, Prebble had the lead role of Rita West in Westside, a prequel to Outrageous Fortune, about Ted and Rita West in the 1970s.
Antonia Prebble has given birth on screen five times, starting with The Tribe as a fourteen-year old, then Outrageous Fortune, a short film, White Lies, and a play as Mary mother of Jesus (who just popped out …. and we all sang a song).
Since 2016, she has also been the official ambassador for New Zealand department store Smith & Caughey’s. She was the face of Smith & Caughey’s Spring 2018 campaign and lookbook, photographed and styled in a series of images by photographer Nicole Ku. Prebble has fronted various prestigious publication covers such as Remix Magazine, Next Magazine, Mindfood Style, and Fashion Quarterly.
Prebble is currently portraying Rita West in the television programme Westside and Edie Flanagan in the Australian TV programme Sisters.
Antonia Prebble Age
She was born on June 6, 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand. She is 34 years old as of 2018.
Antonia Prebble Family
Prebble is the daughter of John Prebble, a Sussex-born barrister and solicitor and a law professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and Nicola Mary Riddiford, an English teacher. She is the middle of three children having an older sister, Becky, and a younger brother, Ben, both of whom studied law.
Prebble’s uncle Richard Prebble is a former politician. Her other uncle, Mark Prebble, is the former head of the State Services Commission.
Antonia Prebble Partner | Antonia Prebble Engaged
Prebble is engaged to actor Daniel Musgrove in 2018. The two have worked together since the first season of Westside, the prequel to Outrageous Fortune, was filmed in 2014. Prebble announced her engagement on Instagram.
“Hi everyone!” she wrote. “So I have a bit of news…for quite some time this guy here has been making me a very happy gal. We’ve kept it off social media so far, but now I am really chuffed to share that Dan is making an honest woman of me – he proposed, and I said yes! We are super excited, but are thinking we probably won’t get married on the Wests’ back lawn.”
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Hi everyone! So I have a bit of news…for quite some time this guy here has been making me a very happy gal ❤ we’ve kept it off social media so far, but now I am really chuffed to share that Dan is making an honest woman of me – he proposed, and I said yes! We are super excited, but are thinking we probably won’t get married on the Wests’ back lawn 😉 @danmusgrove #heputaringonit
Daniel Musgrove also shared the happy news on Instagram, quipping:
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When you find someone who appreciates a high quality cashmere sweater as much as you do… Never let them go. 💍 @antonia_prebble #iwillneverletgo #highqualitycashmere
Antonia Prebble Baby
In February 2019, Antonia Prebble and Dan Musgrove announced they’re expecting their first child.
Antonia Prebble Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Antonia Prebble Movies and Tv Shows
Antonia Prebble Movies
Title |
Year |
Role |
Futile Attraction |
2004 |
N/A |
White Lies |
2013 |
Rebecca |
The Cure |
2014 |
Beth Wakefield |
Timeslow |
2015 |
Amelia |
Pork Pie |
2017 |
Susie Davidson |
A Woman’s Right to Shoes |
Hayley |
Antonia Prebble Tv Shows
Title |
Year |
Role |
Notes |
Mirror, Mirror |
1997–98 |
Mandy McFarlane |
Main role (series 2) |
A Twist in the Tale |
1999 |
Jem |
Episode: “A Crack in Time” |
The Tribe |
1999–2003 |
Trudy |
Main role (197 episodes) |
Dark Knight |
2001 |
Ruth |
Episode: “Damned” |
WNTV |
2002–03 |
Host |
|
Power Rangers Dino Thunder |
2004 |
Krista |
2 episodes |
Outrageous Fortune |
2005–10 |
Loretta West |
Main role |
Interrogation |
2005 |
Saskia |
Episode “Where There’s Smoke” |
Power Rangers S.P.D. |
Nova Ranger (voice) |
Episode” “Endings: Part 2” |
|
Power Rangers Mystic Force |
2006 |
Clare Langtree / Niella (2 episodes) |
Main role (28 episodes) |
The Lost Children |
Caterina |
Episode: “Chapter 11” |
|
The Jaquie Brown Diaries |
2008 |
Herself |
Episode: “Brown Sweat” |
Spies and Lies |
2010 |
Mavis |
Television film |
Super City |
2011 |
Toni |
3 episodes |
The Almighty Johnsons |
Sonja Freeman |
Episode: “God’s Gift to Zebras” |
|
Auckland Daze |
2012 |
Antonia |
Episode 1 |
The Blue Rose |
2013 |
Jane March |
Main role |
Salem |
2014 |
Bridget Bishop |
Episode: “The Stone Child” |
ANZAC Girls |
Hilda Steele |
Main role; miniseries |
|
Winter |
2015 |
Alesia Taylor |
Main role |
Westside |
2015–present |
Rita West |
Main role, prequel to Outrageous Fortune |
Stand Up Girl |
2017 |
Drunk Bride |
Episode: “The Fault Line” |
Sisters |
Edie Flanagan |
Main role |
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