List of current Home and Away characters

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These are the current main characters in the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away, as can be seen on the episodes being shown in Australia. The show is shown at different paces in other countries. As such, character lists may differ in the episodes in those countries.

For information on past characters, see List of Home and Away characters.

Current characters in Australia
Character First
episode
Alf Stewart Pilot
Sally Fletcher Pilot
Colleen Smart 0036*
Morag Bellingham 0102
Martha Mackenzie 0169*
Irene Roberts 0887
Leah Patterson-Baker 2793
Beth Hunter 3489
Matilda Hunter 3658
Kim Hyde 3677
Peter Baker 3762
Dan Baker 3808
Ric Dalby 3818
Cassie Turner 3920
Amanda Vale 3994
Jack Holden 4020
Lucas Holden 4020
Tony Holden 4020
Rachel Armstrong 4101
Belle Taylor 4115
Drew Curtis 4225
Brad Armstrong 4227
Rocco Cooper 4293

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[edit] Characters

[edit] Baker Family

Peter Baker is a former police detective. His death was faked in 2006, and he was re-introduced in October 2006. This saw him meet his son for the first time. At the moment, he is in a happy relationship with Amanda Vale, much to the disgust of the majority of the residents of Summer Bay. Most residents are now giving the relationship a chance, but are still uneasy with it.
Dan arrived in Summer Bay in episode 3808 in 2004. He was the brother of local detective Peter Baker, who had been injured in the Sarah Lewis hostage crisis. Dan quickly fell in love with the charm and quirkiness of Summer Bay, as well as single mother Leah Patterson. Dan and Leah got married in mid 2005, but the party was ruined by Dan's ex-wife Amanda Vale. In the 2005 season finale, Leah found out about Dan's old gambling habits and was devastated. After Dan's son by his first wife, Ryan, was kidnapped because of his debts, they broke up, despite the fact that she was pregnant with his child. In early 2006, Dan and Leah worked things out, and once again were back together. However, when Dan discovered that Leah and his brother Peter had had a brief liaison, this led to Leah losing the baby. After a period of separation, Leah and Dan decided to give their marriage another chance, and are currently doing that. He was disgusted when his ex-wife, Amanda, and brother, Peter, started going out, but has decided to give them a chance.
Leah Poulos, daughter of Cypriot-born Theo and Helen Poulos, and sister to Demetrii, Alex and Chris, arrived in Summer Bay in episode 2793, 2000, as a runaway bride trying to get out of an arranged marriage. She soon found real love with local bad boy Vinnie Patterson (Ryan Kwanten), and in 2001 they were married. That same year, Leah gave birth to Vinnie "V.J." Patterson Jr. Things, however, took a turn for the worse when Vinnie went to jail to pay for his father's fraud crimes.
As Vinnie was killed by a fire, Leah fell in love with Jesse McGregor (Ben Unwin). They became a couple, but after she became a surrogate mother for Flynn (Joel McIlroy) and Sally, Jesse and Leah broke up. After Peter Baker told her that Vinnie is alive (albeit under a new identity in the Witness Protection Programme, as a result of having testified against a dangerous criminal), Leah went to drastic lengths to be with him, but fell in love with Dan Baker. In mid 2005, the couple got married. In the 2005 season finale, Leah found out that Dan had started gambling again and was devastated. They broke up, even though she was pregnant with his child. In early 2006, Dan and Leah patched things up and got back together. However, Leah then kissed Dan's brother Peter in a moment of weakness, and after an accident in which she fell into the sea, she caught pneumonia and lost the baby. When Dan discovered that she and Peter had kissed, they had a period of separation, though Leah and Dan are now back together.
Teenager Drew arrived in Summer Bay on July 6, 2006, and was soon revealed to be the long-lost son Peter Baker. Drew formed a relationship with the feisty Belle Taylor (Jessica Tovey) (on rebound from her old flame Ric Dalby), much to the disapproval of Dan (Tim Campbell) and Amanda (Holly Brisley). Sick of the restrictions of their parents and the false accusations of Drew being the Summer Bay Firebug, they briefly fled town. Having come to a compromise, Drew become infatuated with none other than Belle's mother, Amanda! After a brief romance, the whole town found out, and despite Drew's claims he loved Amanda, he realised she was just using him. Amanda pulled the wool over Drews eyes but he soon bounces back leaving her with the problem.

[edit] Holden family

Tony arrived in Summer Bay in 2005, in episode 4020, with his sons, police officer Jack and teenager Lucas, moving in next door to the Hunter family. He then began a relationship with Beth Hunter (his wife, Kate, died as the result of a road accident 14 years previously) and the Holdens eventually moved in with her and her children, including her teenage daughter Matilda, (who happened to be Lucas' girlfriend). The harmonious atmosphere fell apart when Lucas and Matilda broke up, with Lucas going off the rails and causing a whole heap of trouble for himself and others. Tony was the Physical Education teacher at Summer Bay High, until, due to staff cutbacks, Brad Armstrong had to let him go. But he wasn't out of a job for long, with a position opening up at the Gym, when Kim was accused of sexual assault.
Jack Holden and his family moved to Summer Bay in 2005 because he shot a teenage girl while on duty as a police officer. He married Martha Mackenzie in 2006, but they later separated. To make matters worse, he was beaten up by an accomplice of Duncan Gillen, which made him temporarily unable to walk. Whilst in rehab, he met Sam, who helped Jack to eventually walk again. There relationship bloomed, with Jack getting along really well with her son. Whilst talking to Sam's son, and eventually talking to Sam herself, it was found out that her last relationship wasn't a good one, with hints that she was abused and was running away from him; thus bringing her to Summer Bay.
Lucas moved with his family, brother Jack and dad Tony to Summer Bay in 2005. After his brother caused a stir, Lucas met Matilda, daughter of his father's new love interest, Beth Hunter. During preparations for Colleen's play, Ric and Cassie were fired after a rivalry sprung up between the two. Maddie and Lucas were hired to replace them. On the night of the play, Maddie and Lucas changed the lines to make it more interesting and amusing - which it definitely ended up being. Lucas and Maddie shared their first kiss, witnessed by the whole of Summer Bay. The relationship fell apart when Lucas became friends with Belle Taylor, the girl who had single handedly split up Ric and Cassie. Lucas and Matilda argued over who they should stay loyal to: Ric or Cassie. After one argument the two broke up and Lucas put the final nail in the coffin by going to bed with another girl, only to be caught by a heartbroken Matilda. Lucas fell in with a bad crowd, and, unable to cope with being so close to Matilda everyday he hid how hurt he was about their break up by recklessly going off the rails and causing trouble, including lashing out at those closest to him; resulting in Lucas punching his father, Tony. Lucas then realized he was missing a 'mother figure' in his life and that his problems were caused by the difficulty he was having accepting Beth Hunter into his life. Lucas and Beth sorted things out, and Lucas cleaned up his act. He and Matilda then became friends again. Lucas looked after Matilda following the explosion and took tentative steps at a reconciliation. This was blown apart when Lee, the girl found in his bed that he claimed he did not sleep with, returned and announced to everyone that she was pregnant with Lucas' baby. Even though it was untrue, Lucas led everyone believe it to protect Lee, even if it meant losing Matilda. When Matilda came back from 'counselling camp' with a new boyfriend, Dean, Lucas couldn't accept this, and tried desperately to break them up, eventually finding out Dean was gay! Currently it looks like things could finally get back on track as he is now together with good friend Belle Taylor. Now they are dating and recentely had a fun game of strip poker with best friend Ric, girlfriend Belle and ex-girlfriend Matilda.
  • Martha Jane Holden (née Mackenzie) (Jodi Gordon). (2005-)
Martha Mackenzie is the granddaughter of Alf Stewart, and half-sister of Macca. She entered the soap opera in 2005.

[edit] Hunter family

  • Elizabeth "Beth" Walters Hunter Sutherland (Clarissa House). (2003-)
Beth is the mother of five children (Scott (Kip Gamblin), Kit (Amy Mizzi), Robbie (Jason Smith), Henry (Tobi Atkins), & Matilda (Indiana Evans), and the ex-wife of Rhys Sutherland (Michael Beckley).
Beth grew up a country girl and had no aspirations but to marry a farmer. She found what she was looking for when she married Jack Hunter, a man 12 years her senior, when she was eighteen (Australian marriage age). She gave birth to her first son, Scott, ten months later.
Beth’s first appearance was in episode 3489 when Scott took her as his date to the fundraising dance for Scott's boatshed. This was the first time she met Rhys Sutherland, who Dani Sutherland (Tammin Sursok), his eldest daughter, had taken along as her date. She talked about how she had left university when she was younger to look after the kids.
She was understandably taken aback when Alf Stewart announced Scott and Dani's engagement. However, Colleen and Alf had simply got their wires crossed and the situation blew over. Rhys and Beth got friendly and soon enjoyed a dance together, only to have it interrupted by Angie Russell (Laurie Foell) crashing the dance, where she then ripped into Rhys.
After that point, Beth did not appear for a few weeks until she came around looking for Scott. As she did so, she asked Rhys if he wanted to grab a coffee. In the Beachside Diner, they talked about the dinner dance and Rhys brought up the fact that he had asked Beth out on a date. A few days later, Rhys kept his promise and took her out for dinner, but on the way they narrowly avoided hitting a motorcyclist. When they rushed over to see who the motorcyclist was, they found it to be Kit, Beth’s daughter, who had stolen Noah Lawson’s (Beau Brady) bike. Fortunately, she wasn’t hurt.
Beth was later joined by another son, offbeat inventor Robbie, in late 2003. Around that time, Rhys, his "twin" daughters Kirsty (Christie Hayes) & Jade (Kate Garven), and his nephew Max (Sebastian Elmaloglou), got trapped in a mineshaft, fighting for their lives (an event that took place in the final episodes of 2003 and climaxed with a rescue in the 2004 season premiere).
As 2004 began, Rhys & Beth bought the caravan park from Josh West. Because money was tight, it was decided that Beth's youngest children, twins Henry and Matilda, should come out of boarding school and live in Summer Bay. A few weeks later, Rhys and Beth got married. Unfortunately, the marriage fell to pieces months later when Rhys cheated on her with his ex-wife, Shelley (Paula Forrest), which led to a divorce and Rhys' departure later in the year.
In 2005, the Holdens moved to Summer Bay, and Beth soon pursued a relationship with the father, Tony, while Matilda started to date Lucas, Tony's youngest son. Meanwhile, Beth wasn't pleased with the romance going on between Scott and Summer Bay High's new drama teacher, Amanda Vale, who Beth thought was shady and manipulative. Although Scott eventually saw through Amanda and dumped her, Beth was shocked and livid when Amanda married her father, millionaire Graham Walters (Doug Scroope). Beth was really devastated when Graham died of a heart attack, and in resulting his will, Amanda inherited all of Graham's money, but was appeased when Amanda gave the Hunters all of Graham's medals from the Vietnam War.

Despite Beth & Jack was never married by proper marriage, but they are effectively husband and wives, making Lucas & Matilda effectively half-siblings.

Maddie came to Summer Bay in early 2004 in episode 3658 with her twin brother Henry and wasn't subtle about how mad she was to move in with her mother, Beth, and soon-to-be-stepfather Rhys. Since then, she has had several romances, first with Ric Dalby, then Diesel Williams, and then Lucas Holden. Her close relationship with best friend Ric has caused Cassie Turner to go mad with jealousy, but it seems these two were just destined to be soul mates rather than lovers. She suffered a number of traumas living in the Bay ranging from being run over (by big brother Robbie), drugged and almost raped by evil Callan and abducted and held hostage by the strange Terry Rawlings. Luckily she had moved on to be happy with true love Lucas until recently when Lucas' friendship with Belle put their relationship in trouble. Eventually, like Ric and Cassie, the pair broke up.
As the youngest member of the Hunter family (Henry is 7 minutes older) Matilda likes to be the centre of attention and is quite the little actress, yet hates the way her family treats her as a little girl rather than the young woman she has grown into. Her romance with Lucas was going from strength to strength and helped Matilda work through some of her insecurities, especially where boys are concerned. When Belle stole Ric from Cassie, Matilda stayed loyal to her best friend and was horrified when Lucas became friends with Belle himself. The pair argued and eventually broke up, something which has hit Maddie hard especially as she now has to live with him. Despite their break up Matilda hoped they could work things out, but was devastated when she caught Lucas in bed with another girl. However, Lucas has since cleaned up his act and he and Matilda have resumed their friendship.
Matilda suffered horrific burns during the explosion at Jack and Martha's wedding, resulting in Matilda's body issues to come back. Her self esteem was lifted slightly by Lucas' obvious concern for her, but was shattered when Lee, the girl he claimed he didn't sleep with returned and announced she was having his baby. This sent Matilda over the edge and she has developed an eating disorder and self loathing, much to the concern of her mother Beth and best friends Ric and Cassie. Her condition became worse and eventually was admitted to hospital with bulimia. Afterwards, she went to a retreat for teens with disorders and problems for three weeks before coming home. There, Lucas told her that he saw her kissing another boy there, Dean, with whom she had a brief relationship with until it was revealed that he was gay. Recently, Matilda has been spending time with Ric, following his break up with Cassie (which in turn saw Matilda and Cassie to break up as friends following the latter's affair with Macca), and following which they are now together again.

When Ric attmitted he had feelings for Mattie they decided to give a shot and are now very much in love.

[edit] Hyde Family

Kim Hyde was introduced in 2004, and married Rachel Armstrong in 2006.
Rachel Armstrong is a doctor, and married Kim Hyde in 2006.

[edit] Saunders Family

Sally Fletcher is one of two characters to be in Home and Away from the first episode.

Sally is a foster mother in the bay and currently lives with Ric Dalby, Cassie Turner and baby Pippa.

[edit] Stewart Family

Alfred Stewart, is one of two current characters of Home and Away that have appeared in the first episode in 1988. He is known to use a lot of classic Australian slang terms, such as "bloody galah".
Morag Bellingham is Alf Stewart's brother. She is a lawyer, who has helped out many Summer Bay residents, from false allegations.
Ric debuted in episode 3818, 2004 and was considered the worst bully at Summer Bay High. But unknown to most of them, Ric was being constantly bullied himself by his alcoholic father, Owen. The only thing Ric felt good about was bullying others and swimming. In 2005, Ric, who would become a regular character, found out that town legend Alf Stewart was his grandfather. But when Ric resisted Alf's chances to reach out to him, he was put into a foster home with the Saunders. He has matured from a school bully to a rough-around-the-edges good guy with the help of, amongst others, his closest friend Matilda Hunter and his new family of Alf, his cousin Martha, Sally, Flynn and baby Pippa. He has also had a romance with his foster sister, Cassie Turner, despite how rocky it has been. This relationship had come under a lot of pressure due to family tragedy (Flynn's death), Ric's deepening frustration with life and newcomer Belle's obvious interest in him, which Cassie is none too happy about. This bond eventually drove a wedge between Ric and Cassie, and the couple broke up, leaving Ric to spend more time with his "friend" Belle, who unbeknown to Ric was partly responsible for his foster dad Flynn's accident (Flynn had discovered Belle in the house and, in the ensuing struggle, stumbled and fell down the stairs; an accident which proved disastrous for Flynn in his severely weakened condition) just before he died. After Ric and Cassie had another brief reunion (before she left him for Macca), Ric realised that Matilda was the one for him, months after their first romantic encounter. At first hesitant, Matilda decided that she too had feelings for Ric and now they are one of Summer Bay's newest couples. This relationship had a rocky start though, with Matilda's mother, Beth, feeling Ric was too old for Matilda.

[edit] Vale/Taylor Family

Amanda, a professional actress who had been living in Los Angeles for a couple of years with her young son, Ryan (Isaac Gorman), arrived in the middle of the 2005 season, episode 3994, on the eve of the wedding of Dan Baker (Tim Campbell), her ex, to Leah Patterson (Ada Nicodemou). Since then, she was the new drama teacher at Summer Bay High for a short time (before she was sacked for misconduct) and has caused nothing but trouble for an unfortunate few of Summer Bay residents, including her now-former lover, Scott Hunter (Kip Gamblin). Her exploits include lying about becoming pregnant to hold onto Scott, and impersonating Hayley to obtain DNA samples to discover Baby Noah's true father. After discovering it was Scott and not Kim, as everyone else believed, Amanda kept this information to herself, only to be found out by Flynn after the baby's birth. Gold-digging Amanda is now chasing after Scott's grandfather, the much-older millionaire Graham Walters (Doug Scroope), who she succeeded in marrying at the end of the 2005 season. At the beginning of the 2006 season Graham finds out about Amanda's plan and tells her that he is going to divorce her; he then suffers a heart attack and Amanda refuses to call for an ambulance until Beth arrives. In hospital, Graham recovers and tells Amanda that he has copies of the Project 56 documents. Amanda restricts Graham's drip supply until he tells her where he has hidden the copies, which he never gets do to because he suffers another heart attack and is declared brain-dead (Josh finds the copies in Beth's house and destroys them). Amanda comes up with a variety of different ways to get Graham's money and in the end she gets it. She soon discovers that Josh is cheating on her and dumps him, but he then threatens Ryan's life. Amanda buys a gun to protect herself and Josh ends up dead. It was revealed that the killer was Barry Hyde in May 2006. After the thing with Josh, Amanda again pursues Dan, and the pair end up in bed, but Dan later tells Amanda it was a mistake. Amanda grabs Ryan and flees, but she later returns and reveals that she is the producer of a movie that is being made in Summer Bay. When Drew moved to Summer Bay, things were a bit heated with them, especially when Drew once spotted Amanda skinny-dipping. She knew it wouldn't be right to be with him, so broke it off with him and told Belle her daughter, Drew's ex-girfriend, that she was seeing him. Amanda then felt she had no-one, except her good friend Macca. This was until she hooked up with her ex-husband's brother, Peter, much to everyone in Summer Bay's disgust.
Belle mysteriously arrived in Summer Bay in 2006 and quickly caught the eye of Ric Dalby, making an enemy of Cassie Turner in the process. Her constant presence in their relationship has put them under a lot of strain, which Belle has taken advantage of in an attempt to steel Ric away from nemesis Cassie. Her scheaming paid off as, after a fight broke out between Belle and Cassie, Ric and Cassie gave up on their relationship much to the delight of Belle, who quickly snatched Ric up for herself. She continues to create havoc in the bay through manipulating Lucas and Ric to befriend her and causing a fierce rivalry between herself, Matilda and Cassie. She managed to in her short time in the bay to have already broken up both Cassie and Ric and Matilda and Lucas despite her unflattering personality. Belle received her comeuppance when one spiteful remark upset Matilda so much that she gave Belle an almighty slap around the face, much to the amusement of Cassie. Belle's purpose for coming to the Bay was to find her mother; she had met up with a woman who told her that she was her grandmother and that her mother died in childbirth. In April 2006 it was revealed that Amanda Vale is in fact the mother of Belle. (Amanda told people she had had a miscarriage when she was 14, this was in fact a live birth, and the baby was Belle.) When Belle found out Amanda was her mother, she flipped out as she had made Amanda her arch-enemy. Belle become involved in a relationship with Drew Curtis but this was ruined when Drew fell for her mother. She is now in a relationship with Lucas Holden, which started looking unstable around the Christmas Pageant, which took place in the 2006 Home and Away final, in which Belle and Drew had to kiss. Belle was dreading it, but when it happened, it was more passionate than was expected.

[edit] Other characters

  • Irene Roberts (Lynne McGranger). (1992-), (the role was originated by Jacqui Phillips).
In the continuing tradition of the show, Irene has been a foster mother to kids in Summer Bay, such as Selina Cook, Chloe Richards and Joey Rainbow, to the Smith kids (Will, Hayley, and Nick), and Tasha Andrews in recent years. She rebuilt a relationship with her own estranged birth kids, Damian (who later became a priest), Finlay and Nathan (in prison until the early 2000s, when he reformed) in the early-mid 1990s after having them be taken away from her due to her alcoholism. Irene has also had the odd romantic relationship, such as Ken Smith, Paris Burnett and, most recently, Barry Hyde. Irene was once married to Murdoch Roberts (Fin, Damian and Nathan's father), who was murdered by Dodge in 1995 at Nathan's request. Irene first appeared in episode 999.
Colleen has been in Summer Bay for years, as the mother of original character Lance Smart. She first appeared in 1988, in episode 36 But it wasn't until 1999 that Colleen made a big impression on the Bay as the official town gossip (although she was one of Vera's gossiping mates in the early years of Home And Away). Colleen’s claim to fame is that she won the 'Miss Groper Pageant', years after the event she reorganised it and forced Tasha into the competition. Colleen once suffered a gambling addiction and was forced to go to “Gamblers Anonymous” classes by Shelley Sutherland. However, during her first class, Colleen said that it was Shelly who had the addiction. She engaged Norman Shadbolt in 2004. However, the engagement ended after Norman turned out to be a journalist and broke her trust when he revealed that there was a Summer Bay stalker after she told him in confidence. She currently works at the Diner and previously was a receptionist at Flynn’s surgery.
Rachel's brother, Brad, debuted in July 2006 when he was asked by Leah to save Rachel during her alcohol and sedative trip during the helicopter crash, and had a bit of an attraction to Sally. But having fled town for the city, he arrived back in town as the new Principal of Summer Bay High (much to Sally's chagrin) with fiancee Emily. However, Emily revealed to Sally that she had leukemia and died in September 2006. Brad has since sought solace in Sally's arms, having suffered much the same fate as Sally had when she lost her husband Flynn to advanced melanoma.

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