As a child, she loved dancing and began classical and jazz ballet when she was seven. She did not really think about acting until she was sixteen. 'I was in a combined Year 11 and 12 class and the drama teacher made me stand up to audition for the role of Eliza Doolittle, 'I was petrified but she gave me the role and that started me thinking seriously about acting,' she says.

She then moved on to do TOP Drama at Preston College in 1991, she enrolled in the Bachelor of Performing Arts Course at Ballarat University. Since graduation she has worked with the Barnstormin' Theatre Company and her television credits include Neighbours, Bony, The Man from Snowy River, Frontline, Blue Heelers, Pacific Drive and All Saints.

And it is thanks to her Pacific Drive character Zoe that Libby literally fell into a sideline singing career. 'I was doing an appearance last year judging a talent quest with some drag queens and we were just having so much fun and laughing... I fell off the stage. There was a guy from a record company in the audience and he said he wanted me to record a song.' Libby recorded the single 'Different' (a cover of a Mama Cass song) with female impersonator Hugh Monro and singer Mark Fuller under the group name of The Family. But she has not had time for any other singing gigs since then.

Libby loves her All Saints character. 'She has so much energy,' she says. 'Bron is a good nurse and she has the instincts to become a good ambulance officer.' Libby has never wanted to be a nurse and has been fortunate to never require hospital treatment. But, for her, the link between nursing and playing a nurse is about empathising with people. 'Nurses have to care for people, get into their world and understand what the patients are going through and what their fears are to be able to help them through it,' she says. Libby says Bron's high energy levels make her engaging, but the excesses of her private life do take a toll.