Lou Carpenter

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Louis Carpenter
First appearance 1988
Last appearance LEGEND
Statistics
Nickname(s) Lou
Gender Male
Year of Birth 1942
Occupation Co-owner of The General Store
Family Brenda Riley (sister)
Children Guy Carpenter (son)
Lauren Carpenter (daughter)
Ling Mai Chan (daughter)
Louise Carpenter (adoptive daughter)
Portrayed by Tom Oliver

Louis Thomas Carpenter is a popular character from the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, played by Tom Oliver. He first appeared in 1988 to win his High School sweetheart Madge Ramsay away from her fiancee, Harold Bishop. Ultimately Lou failed and returned to Queensland. He reappeared several years later in 1992, a few months after Harold was presumed drowned at sea, and from that point became a permanent fixture on the show. Lou was written out of the show in 1996, but the producers had a change of heart when they received numerous petitions and letters from fans around the world, and he returned to the show a short time later. Lou has remained in Neighbours since that time.

Lou has been married four times, the most recent marriage (to Nina Tucker's mother Trixie) lasting only a matter of months. Lou currently owns half of the General store alongside his best friend (and former rival), Harold. He has previously owned the garage Carpenter's Mechanics and a car yard, and is a Dungeons and Dragons player.

He went to jail but was later released after an appeal hearing conducted by lawyer Toadfish Rebecchi. He was kicked out of his house by Paul Robinson, who rented the house to Lou after buying it from Valda Sheergold. Lou was forced to move into Number 30, and when that share house situation didn't work out he lived in a tent in a caravan park. Lou was blackmailing Izzy Hoyland with a videotape of her kissing Ned Parker which was intended for Paul from the mystery stalker, but this backfired when Izzy (with encouragement from Max) told Paul the truth herself. In truth she was trying to seduce Ned to break up his relationship with Elle. Paul set up a rival to The General Store, a luxury café called Lucinda's, which squeezed Lou and Harold briefly out of business.

While looking for love on the internet, Lou hooked up with a Russian Mail-Order Bride, called Mishka Schneiderova. After a very passionate cyber relationship, Mishka came over to Australia, on a fake visa, unknown to Lou. While questioning their relationship, Harold found out that Lou had been lying about his age. Luckily, Mishka had lied about her age too, with Lou firstly asking if Mishka was her mother. Their relationship blossomed, and despite several "white lies" being told, their love was true. After the invention of "Old 997 Vodka", Harold got suspicious of Mishka, believing she was an alcoholic. Lou and Mishka denied that Old 997 was a vodka, and said it was a cleaning fluid. This lead to a more serious suspicion when Harold saw Mishka drinking this cleaning fluid. When the truth finally came out, Harold demanded that all of the profits made from the sale of their vodka go to a charity. Lou donated it to Mishka's hero Shane Warne's charity, The Shane Warne Foundation, which made Warne so happy, he visited Mishka in person.

After possibly the happiest day of her life, disaster struck, when two men claiming to be from the Russian Foreign Service said they had to take Mishka away, because of her fake passport. Later on it was revealled that the men were actually agents of Mishka's husband, Igor (an evil evil man). Mishka returned to Russia, and Lou was devestated. He then went to Russia to rescue his love but discovered she had fallen back in love with Igor and returned heartbroken. Lou has now decided that he needs an Australian woman and has set his sights on neighbour Janelle Timmins. Lou has also returned from Russia with a msyterious tattoo baring Mishka's name on his back and a gap in his memory regarding his time in Russia.

[edit] Family tree

  • Mason (surname unknown) (grandson)
  • Brenda Carpenter (sister), married to Roy Riley
  • Aunt Elsie,(deceased) married to a George (first husband), died in WWII. Then married a Frank (mentioned Nov 23 2006, UK, BBC Ltd.)
  • Cousin Eddie (mentioned Nov 23 2006, UK, BBC TV Ltd.)


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