Jessica Tovey

Jessica Tovey is an Australian actress born in Sydney who trained at the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. She began acting as a child, performed with the Australian Theatre for Young People, and won acclaim for her Macbeth at The Global Shakespeare Festival. She joined the children's program Wicked Science in 2005, then became best known for playing Belle Taylor on the long-running soap opera Home and Away from 2006, a part that earned her two Logie Award nominations. After leaving the show she appeared in Underbelly: The Golden Mile and Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, and later in Wonderland, the Wolf Creek series and the miniseries Bad Mothers. Her stage credits include Truck Stop, Double Indemnity, Constellations and The Merchant of Venice, and in 2024 she appeared in the horror film Water Horse.