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HANDOUT – Example Character Backstories

Neighbours – Charlene Mitchell


She prefers the company of boys. Trusting nature gets her into trouble.
Rash, headstrong and doesn’t learn from experience, and optimistic but often
hit by reality.

Home and Away – Sophie Simpson


16 years old and abandoned at a young age. Outwardly she’s a cherub,
inwardly, she is fast learning to become a very accomplished con-artist and
shoplifter.

Neighbours - Melissa Jarrett


14 and a student. She’s pretty, sassy, cheeky, fun and ‘forward’, and tends to
act before thinking, being rather blunt. She’s a much liked leader.

Tomorrow When the War Began – Homer Yannos


Reptile, troublemaker, problem, slob, loud mouth, macho, wild, crazy,
immature; Homer Yannos is all of those things. He is also; a leader, a thinker,
a planner as well as careful, innovative, caring, supportive, brave and
indomitable.

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