Pippa Saunders
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Piper Morrissey as Pippa (2013)
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| Portrayed by | Various actors (2004–07) Chloe Marshall (2007–08) Piper Morrissey (2013) |
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| Duration | 2004–08, 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 4 June 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 5 September 2013 | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Julie McGauran (2004) Lucy Addario (2013) |
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| Classification | Former; recurring | ||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Student | ||||||||||||||
| Home | United States | ||||||||||||||
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| Father | Flynn Saunders |
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| Mother | Sally Fletcher |
| Grandfathers |
John Saunders Aaron Copeland Tom Fletcher |
| Grandmothers | Rachel Saunders Diana Wilson Pippa Ross |
| Uncles | Miles Copeland |
| Aunts | Ashley Saunders |
| First cousins | Amber Copeland |
Philippa Rose "Pippa" Saunders is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away. She made her screen debut in the episode broadcast on 4 June 2004. The character was played by twelve young actors, including Chloe Marshall who took over the role in 2007. Pippa made her last regular appearance on 2 April 2008, with the character departing town off screen in the following day's episode, but returned on 15 July 2013 with Piper Morrissey now playing the role. Pippa is Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy) and Sally Fletcher's (Kate Ritchie) daughter.
Pippa was played by twelve different child actors from her introduction in 2004 to her departure in 2008. The actors were Riley Stevens, Anouk Povaly, Noah Fraser, Isabelle Bell-Dickson, Jessica Taylor Lorenxo, Mia Szczenpanik, Leila Szczenpanik, Bojanna Main, Tameka Main, Phoebe Falconer, India Falconer and Chloe Marshall. In 2010, Charles Legge from the Daily Mail stated that the character held the record for multiple recasts in a soap opera.
Pippa returned along with her mother, Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie), on 15 July 2013. Piper Morrissey was cast in the role. Morrissey auditioned twice for the role of Pippa. She was initially told the character she was reading for was called Poppy. Morrissey was not a regular viewer of Home and Away prior to landing the role of Pippa and she was not aware of who Ritchie was. However, they became close during filming and Morrissey commented "She was so nice. I just loved working with Kate, We kind of did act like mother and daughter."
Pippa is conceived using eggs that her mother Sally had frozen before her undergoing a hysterectomy for cancer some years earlier, after her friend Leah Patterson offers to be a surrogate for Sally and her husband Flynn Saunders (Joel McIlroy). When Leah goes into labour, her ex-boyfriend Jesse has to drive her to the hospital and Sally and Flynn are initially nowhere to be found. Leah gives birth to a girl, who Sally and Flynn name Philippa or "Pippa" after Pippa Ross (Debra Lawrance).
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