Neighbours Cast List

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For over nearly four decades, the gripping Australian television drama Neighbours has held viewers worldwide spellbound with its enthralling storylines and unforgettable characters. Set in the fictional suburb of Erinsborough, this long-running soap opera delves into the daily lives, emotional moments, and intricate relationships of its residents. By offering a window into relatable issues faced by ordinary people, the show has garnered a devoted fan base eager to keep up with every twist.

At the heart of any successful television series lies an extraordinary ensemble of actors who breathe life into their distinctive roles. The Neighbours cast members embody personas that remain etched in audiences' memories long after their screen time ends. From devious antagonists to endearing protagonists, each character adds a unique flavor to the rich tapestry that is Erinsborough's tight-knit community.

One critical component that sets Neighbours apart from other TV dramas is its dynamic cast that boasts both seasoned veterans and fresh faces alike. For example, Stefan Dennis has been mesmerizing viewers since 1985 as Paul Robinson - a multifaceted character whose cunning ways have earned him equal measures of admiration and disdain. Similarly, Alan Fletcher and Jackie Woodburne have become mainstays as Karl and Susan Kennedy - a charming couple whose unwavering love for each other serves as an anchor amidst turbulent times in Erinsborough. 

As each episode unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that Neighbours owes much of its enduring success to a mesmerizing cast of characters creating unforgettable moments on screen. With such memorable characters populating Erinsborough's colorful landscape, Neighbours keeps viewers on the edge of their seats. 
 

  • Abigail
    Number 96, Sons and Daughters, The Young Doctors
    Abigail Rogan (known mononymously as Abigail; born (1946-07-23) 23 July 1946 in London) is a retired English-born Australian character actress particularly of television soap operas and film and was also briefly a vocalist, she emigrated from London in 1968 and became one of Australia's significant sex symbols of the early-1970s. Abigail was educated in France, and came to Australia when she was given the chance to appear as the female lead in a local theatre production in Perth of the British comedy There's a Girl in My Soup.She is best known for her roles in two prominent Australian soap operas, where she became known simply as Abigail, she first became best known to Australians as a sex symbol, in the television soap opera Number 96, as the first actress to play Bev Houghton and then for her role as conniving Caroline Morrell in Sons and Daughters.
  • Alan Dale
    NCIS, The O.C., Ugly Betty
    Alan Hugh Dale (born 6 May 1947) is a New Zealand-born actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of professions, before deciding to become a professional actor at age 27. With work limited in New Zealand, Dale moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson in Neighbours, a part he played from 1985 until 1993. He left the series when he fell out with the producers over the pay he and the rest of the cast received. In 2018 it was revealed that Dale would reprise his role as Jim for one episode on December 25, 25 years after his last appearance. After leaving Neighbours, Dale found he had become typecast as Jim Robinson in Australia and struggled to find work. His career was revitalised after he relocated to the United States in 2000. Since then, he has had roles in many American series including prominent parts in The O.C. (as Caleb Nichol) and Ugly Betty (as Bradford Meade), as well as recurring and guest roles in Lost, 24, NCIS, ER, The West Wing, The X-Files, Entourage and Once Upon a Time. Dale has also appeared in minor roles in films such as Star Trek Nemesis, Hollywood Homicide, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, as well as the London West End production of Spamalot. Dale has been married to former Miss Australia Tracey Pearson since 1990 and has four children.
  • Alan Fletcher
    Neighbours, Cop Shop, Soapstar Superstar
    Alan Fletcher is the name of: Alan Fletcher (footballer) (1917–1984), British footballer Alan Fletcher (graphic designer) (1931–2006), British graphic designer Alan Fletcher (composer) (born 1956), American composer Alan Fletcher (actor) (born 1957), Australian actor Alan Fletcher (politician) (1907–1991), Australian politician
  • Anne Charleston
    Neighbours, Number 96, Bellbird
    Anne Charleston (born 30 December 1942 in Melbourne) is an Australian actress, notable for her career locally, as well as in the United Kingdom, she is best known for her roles in television series and telemovies, but has also acted on stage including theatre roles and pantomimes, she is probably best known for playing the itinerant character of gravel-voiced Madge Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and Lily Butterfield in British soap Emmerdale.
  • Anne Haddy
    Neighbours, Punishment, Certain Women
    Anne Haddy (5 October 1930 – 6 June 1999), was an Australian actress, who worked in all facets of the industry including radio, stage, television and film, she was best known for her television soap roles as Alice Hemmings in cult series Prisoner, Rosie Andrews on Sons and Daughters and matriarch Helen Daniels in the long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbours.
  • Adam Hunter

    Adam Hunter

    Adam Hunter appeared in the 2011 documentary film Looking for Lenny.
  • Anthony Hammer

    Anthony Hammer

    Neighbours, Bootleg
    Anthony Hammer (born circa 1987) is an Australian actor, known for his acting career starring in roles such as Leo Hancock on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. He joined the cast in 2001 but 18 months later, the entire on-screen Hancock family left. Since then, he has finished school, relocated to the UK where he went on to appear as a main character in the BAFTA (British Academy of Television and Arts) award-winning show BBC production of the Alex Shearer book Bootleg. Also becoming a semi professional footballer, his current team is unknown.
  • Adelaide Kane
    Reign, Neighbours
    Adelaide Victoria Kane (born 9 August 1990) is an Australian actress. She gained recognition for her roles as Lolly Allen in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, Cora Hale in the third season of MTV's Teen Wolf, Tenaya 7 (later Tenaya 15) in Power Rangers RPM, Mary, Queen of Scots in the CW period drama series Reign and Drizella in the ABC series Once Upon a Time.
  • Carla Bonner
    Neighbours
    Carla Bonner (born 3 March 1973) is an Australian actress best known for playing the role of Stephanie Scully in the soap opera Neighbours, a role she played from 1999 to 2010. She was also a guest on Celebrity Big Brother Australia in 2002. Following her departure from Neighbours, Bonner wrote a book called Hook, Line and Sink Her and guest starred in an episode of Wentworth. She briefly reprised the role of Steph in 2013, before returning to Neighbours as a permanent cast member from October 2015 until June 2018.
  • Daniel MacPherson
    The Bill, Neighbours, City Homicide
    Daniel MacPherson (born 25 April 1980) is an Australian actor and television presenter, best known for his roles as Joel Samuels in Neighbours, Sergeant Samuel Wyatt in Sky and Cinemax's Strike Back, Whit Carmichael in the Shane Abbess sci-fi film Infini, and Arion Elessedil in The Shannara Chronicles. He has also co-hosted Dancing with the Stars for 6 years while simultaneously starring in a number of Australians dramas such as Wild Boys. Most recently, Daniel has a cameo role as Calvin's father in Ava DuVernay's A Wrinkle in Time.
  • Eliza Szonert
    Neighbours, Underbelly
    Eliza Szonert (born 29 January 1974) is an Australian actress. Born in Victoria, Australia, Szonert played Danni Stark in Australia's long-running soap opera, Neighbours, from 1993 to 1996. Szonert reprised the role in 2005 for the show's 20th anniversary.After leaving Neighbours, she relocated to Los Angeles, taking parts in various television series, including Buffy The Vampire Slayer spin-off Angel. Whilst there she married an American businessman, and had three daughters. Szonert also played Janine Kellerman in the Australian film, The Dish in 2000. She had a minor role in Stingers and has acted on stage. Szonert then played Trish Moran on the Australian television show, Underbelly. After divorcing, she moved home to Melbourne, where she started a relationship with an Australian businessman, with whom she shares custody of their son. In late 2015, Szonert took her son back from her ex-partner in Malaysia, after engaging a controversial child recovery agency. In subsequent court proceedings in Malaysia, it was revealed that Szonert had just previously spent eight weeks at The Cabin Chiang Mai rehabilitation centre in Thailand, and was ordered to spend 24 hours in custody in jail after not revealing the location of her son to the court. After agreeing to let a doctor examine her son, and with mediation undertaken at the Australian embassy, Szonert and her son were allowed to return to Australia. In 2016, Szonert threatened to sue New Idea because the magazine refused to pay her an agreed sum of A$7000 for a tell-all interview about claiming back her child from an ex-partner living overseas, with the magazine claiming she had lied about entering the rehab centre.
  • Holly Valance
    Neighbours
    Holly Rachel Candy (née Vukadinović born 11 May 1983), known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian actress, singer and model. Valance began her career as Felicity Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. In 2002, she released her first album Footprints, which included three successful singles "Kiss Kiss", "Down Boy" and "Naughty Girl". In 2013, Valance was a mentor and judge of fashion competition Shopaholic Showdown.
  • Ian Smith
    Neighbours, Prisoner, Bellbird
    Ian Smith (born 19 June 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor, theatre performer, television producer and screenwriter. He played Harold Bishop in the soap opera Neighbours from 1987 when the series was taken over by Network Ten until 1991. He returned to the role in 1996 and continued as a series regular until 2009.
  • Alyce Platt
    Sons and Daughters, City Homicide, Sale of the Century
    Alyce Mary A Platt (born 19 December 1965) is an Australian actress and singer. As an actress, she had roles in TV soap operas, Sons and Daughters (1983–85) and Neighbours (mid-1990s) and worked as a TV presenter and game show host, including on Sale of the Century (1986–91). Platt released her debut album, Beautiful Death, in April 2004.
  • Jackie Woodburne
    Neighbours, The Young Doctors, 1915
    Jacqueline Anne Woodburne (born 5 February 1956) is a Northern Irish-born actress, who is notable for her career on Australian television, and who is best known for her role of Susan Kennedy in Neighbours (a role she has played for 25 years) and her previous TV soap opera roles in The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Sons and Daughters and Prisoner As of 2019, Along with Neighbours co-star Alan Fletcher she is the third longest-serving soap opera actor in Australia, after Home and Away stars Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger.
  • Amber Kilpatrick

    Amber Kilpatrick

  • Janet Andrewartha
    Neighbours, Prisoner, Embassy
    Janet Andrewartha (born 16 September 1951 () is an Australian actress of stage and television. She is famous for playing on-going roles in two popular Australian TV series, Reb Kean in Prisoner, and Lyn Scully in Neighbours.
  • Jay Bunyan
    Beauty & the Beast, Neighbours, Top of the Lake
    Jay Ryan (born 29 August 1981) is a New Zealand actor. He is best known for his roles as Jack Scully in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, Kevin in the New Zealand comedy-drama programme Go Girls, Mark Mitcham in the internationally produced New Zealand television programme Top of the Lake, Vincent Keller in the American television series Beauty & the Beast and Detective Ben Wesley in the Canadian television series Mary Kills People.
  • Amelia Frid
    Adventures on Kythera
    Amelia Frid (born 30 July 1975 in Soviet Union) is an Australian former child actress who played Cody Willis in Neighbours. She retired from acting to concentrate on studies and her current profession is forensic psychology. Frid's final appearance in Neighbours as Cody Willis was 30 July 1991 which was her 16th birthday. In 1988, Frid was cast as Molly in Adventures on Kythera. The series was not broadcast in Australia until 1991. Frid's final acting work was with former Neighbours co-star Ashley Paske (who played Matt Robinson) in Oxford where she played the princess in Aladdin.
  • Jesse Spencer
    House, Chicago Fire, Hercules
    Jesse Gordon Spencer (born 12 February 1979) is an Australian actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Billy Kennedy on the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1994–2000, 2005), Dr. Robert Chase on the American medical drama House (2004–2012) and Lieutenant/Captain Matthew Casey on the American drama Chicago Fire (2012–present).
  • Jonathon Dutton
    Neighbours, The Kylie Show
    Jonathon Dutton (born 23 August 1982) is an Australian actor and director. From 1998 to 2002, Dutton played Tad Reeves in Neighbours. He later returned to the show as a director. Dutton has also appeared in MDA, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Packed to the Rafters.
  • Kylie Minogue
    Neighbours, The Henderson Kids
    Kylie Minogue, an Australian-born singer, songwriter, and actress, has established herself as a global pop icon with a career spanning over four decades. Born in Melbourne in 1968, Minogue quickly found fame on the small screen, landing a role in the popular soap opera Neighbours at the age of 17. Her character, Charlene, became a beloved figure in Australia and the UK, which paved the way for her initial breakthrough in music. Minogue's journey into the music industry began when she signed a contract with Mushroom Records in 1987. Her debut single, Locomotion, became the highest-selling single of the decade in Australia and launched her musical career internationally. In 1988, she released her self-titled debut album which included hits like I Should Be So Lucky, and Got to Be Certain. Over the years, Minogue has reinvented her sound and image, transitioning from bubblegum pop to dance-pop and electropop, while maintaining consistent chart success. She has received numerous awards, including a Grammy for Best Dance Recording for the song Come Into My World. Besides music, Minogue has also made significant contributions to film and television. She appeared in movies such as Moulin Rouge! and Holy Motors, showcasing her versatility as an actress. Moreover, she is known for her philanthropic work, particularly in breast cancer awareness following her own diagnosis in 2005. Kylie Minogue's enduring popularity and influence in pop culture, combined with her resilience in personal life, have cemented her status as a true entertainment powerhouse.
  • Andrew McFarlane
    Paradise Beach, The Sullivans, The Flying Doctors
    Andrew McFarlane (born 6 June 1951, Albany, Western Australia) is an Australian actor with many stage and screen credits.
  • Kym Valentine
    Neighbours, My Two Wives
    Kym Valentine (born 24 May 1977) is an Australian actress best known for her long running intermittent portrayal of Libby Kennedy in the soap opera Neighbours.
  • Andy Anderson
    Fire, The Sullivans, Phoenix
    Neville Anderson (born 18 July 1947) known professionally as Andy Anderson and also billed as Andy James, is a New Zealand-born musician and actor. As a musician he is best known as the lead singer of 1960s Australian band The Missing Links, and as an actor he is well known for his roles on both Australian and New Zealand television.
  • Maggie Millar
    Neighbours, Homicide
    Maggie Millar (born 6 January 1941) alternatively Maggie Miller, is an Australian actress, artist, writer and public relations officer. She is best known for her television role as Marie Winter in Prisoner (1981–84) and Rosie Hoyland in Neighbours (2002–03).
  • Anna Jennings-Edquist (born 13 April 1985) is an Australian lawyer, journalist, actress, playwright and director in both theatre and television. Jennings-Edquist has written and directed several Australian university and festival productions and is known for her acting roles on the popular soap opera Neighbours.
  • Marcella Russo

    Marcella Russo

    Neighbours
    Marcella Russo is an Australian actress who is best known for playing Liljana Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2003 until 2005, when her character was killed off in the Neighbours plane crash. She was in a band called Swallow before Lucy De Ville. Lucy De Ville broke up and are no longer a band. Russo is currently a member of the band Lucy De Ville, alongside her former Neighbours co-star Marisa Warrington. She had been in several other bands including Swallow and She Is Me. She has previously appeared as Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show in 2004.
  • Marisa Siketa

    Marisa Siketa

    Neighbours, The Saddle Club
    Marisa Julia Siketa (born 7 November 1990) is an Australian actress, disc jockey, animal ambassador, and traffic manager. She is best known for her roles as the first actress to play Melanie Atwood on The Saddle Club and as Summer Hoyland on Neighbours.
  • Matthew Werkmeister (born 30 January 1992) is an Australian stage and television actor. He is best known for his role as Zeke Kinski in the soap opera Neighbours from 2005 to 2011.