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 Trudy in The Tribe, and as Jane in The Blue Rose. Internationally she's best known for her role as Clare Langtree, the Gatekeeper in Power Rangers Mystic Force. She is currently portraying Rita West in the television programmeWestside and Edie Flanagan in the Australian TV programme Sisters.
She became interested in acting at an early age, starring in the stage playThe Magical Kingdom of Thingymijig in 1993. Throughout the late 1990s Antonia started to work a lot with New Zealand children's TV production companies, having starring and guest roles in several programmes. Two of her 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. She has also guest starred in two episodes of ' as Krista, alongside two of her fellow cast members from The Tribe. In 2006, she began her role in ' as Clare Langtree, the Gatekeeper and Udonna's apprentice. Prebble made a cameo appearance in the band Flip Grater's music video for "Careful". She is also a television presenter, having hosted New Zealand's WNTV from 2002 to 2003. In 2005, she 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, 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. Prebble 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. Prebble and Marshall teamed up again in 2013 for the mystery thriller, The Blue Rose. In 2015 she had the lead role of Rita West in Westside, a prequel to Outrageous Fortune, about Ted and Rita West in the 1970s. Antonia 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. Since 2016, Antonia has been the official ambassador for New Zealand department storeSmith & Caughey's. Prebble was the face of Smith & Caughey's Spring 2018 campaign and lookbook, photographed and styled in a series of images by fashion photographer Nicole Ku. Antonia Prebble has fronted various prestigious publication covers such as Next Magazine, Remix Magazine, Mindfood Style, and Fashion Quarterly. In early 2019, Antonia has frequented New Zealand TV showThe Project since the arrival of her first child with Dan Musgrove. In April 2020, Prebble participated in an Outrageous Fortune virtual greeting in the fight against the Coronavirus disease 2019.
Personal life
In 2016, Prebble began dating writer and co-star on the set of Westside. The couple announced their engagement in July 2018. Prebble and Musgrove announced her pregnancy in February 2019 for the cover story of New Zealand magazine Women's Day. They have one child together. Prebble currently resides in Auckland, New Zealand and frequents Los Angeles, California during pilot season.
