Finlay Roberts
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| Home and Away character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
Tina Thomsen Jessie Bullions (flashback) |
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| Duration | 1991–94, 1996–97 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 18 September 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 4 March 1997 | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Des Monaghan (1991) John Holmes (1996, 1997) |
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| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Student at Summer Bay High (1991-93) Waitress Restaurant owner |
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| Home | Sydney | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Murdoch Roberts |
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| Mother | Irene Roberts |
| Brothers |
Nathan Roberts Damian Roberts |
| Half-brothers | Mick Jennings |
| Husband | Barry Michaels |
| Sons | Paul Roberts Mark Roberts |
| Aunts | Wendy McFarlane |
| First cousins | Nelson McFarlane |
Finlay "Fin" Roberts is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, portrayed by Tina Thomsen. She made her first appearance during the episode airing on 18 September 1991 and departed on 20 May 1994. Thomsen made return guest appearances in 1996 and 1997. Jessie Bullions portrayed a young Finlay in a flashback in 1997.
Thomsen was still a teenager when she secured the role and she relocated her family from Brisbane to Sydney to accommodate filming. Thomsen told Jenna Price from The Sydney Morning Herald: "It's me who did the pushing ... my parents just supported me."
In 2012, Lynne McGranger who plays the character's on-screen mother Irene Roberts said that she doubted Finlay would ever return to the series because Thomsen had quit acting and became a mother.
Finlay is involved in a relationship with Blake Dean (Les Hill). The two characters share an "unexpected passionate kiss", but Blake tells her that he is not interested, leaving Finlay "devastated". A reporter from Inside Soap said that Finlay has "really fallen for" Blake and is "hurt and embarrassed" to be rebuffed by him. In the following months Blake changes his mind, but Finlay puts up a "fight" and tries to resist him. The writer added that Blake "broke her heart and made her feel a fool, and she isn't ever going to let him put her in that position again". Finlay turns down Blake's offer of a date, but agrees to go scuba diving with him as friends. However, Finlay fails to resurface after the dive because her oxygen supply is cut short and Blake fears that she has drowned. The scenes were filmed at UnderWater World in Mooloolaba, Queensland. The storyline served as the serial's end-of-year "cliff-hanger" and viewers had to wait until the series returned to find out whether or not Finlay survives. A writer from The Sun-Herald said that she would survive and be "possibly suffering from brain damage", while Inside Soap's reporter revealed that the character's "life hangs in the balance". This leads to "tense scenes" with Finlay's mother Irene and Blake. He then declares his love for Finlay, but other characters think that he is still not over his ex-girlfriend Meg Bowman (Cathy Godbold), who died from leukaemia.
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