DREAM come true
It’s said that we make up our mind about a person within three seconds of meeting them. Three seconds with Rebekah Palmer, who plays delightful, ditsy nurse Dawn Robinson on Shortland Street, and you’re hers.
‘IT CHANGES EVERY DAY, WHICH IS GREAT FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME, WHO GETS BORED EASILY’
Warm, bubbly and friendly, she arrives at our Auckland office dressed simply in black with a huge smile on her face. She extends her hand to grip mine firmly in a handshake and tells me she’s happy to have saved me the trouble of driving out to South Pacific Pictures in West Auckland to interview her.
She is cute as a button – and not dissimilar in disposition to her sunny-side-up TV character. In fact, the 26-year-old actress says that when she first read the brief for Dawn before auditioning for the role, she felt like she was reading about herself. “Farming background, bubbly personality, all these things,” she recalls. “I read the brief and thought
