Bree Timmins

Infobox soap character
colour =Television colour|Neighbours
name = Bree Timmins
series=Neighbours

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first = April 4 2005
Episode 4691
last = July 13, 2007
Episode 5255
cause = Moved to Cairns with her mother and new stepfather, Allan Steiger
nickname = Bree
Smidge (by Dylan and Stingray)
Breezer (by Janelle)
Biccie (by Loris)
Brie Cheese (by Angie Rebecchi)
alias = Trinity Black (during identity crisis)
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gender = Female
age = 16
born = 1992
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parents = Kim Timmins (adoptive father)
Janelle Timmins (adoptive mother)
Allan Steiger (adoptive stepfather)
siblinhs=Dwayne Timmins (adoptive brother)
Brandon Timmins (adoptive brother)
Dylan Timmins (adoptive brother)
Scott Timmins (adoptive brother, deceased)
Janae Hoyland (adoptive sister)
Anne Baxter (switched at birth)Pepper Steiger (adoptive stepsister)
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portrayer = Sianoa Smit-McPhee
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residence = Cairns

Breanna "Bree" Timmins is a fictional character on the popular Australian soap opera "Neighbours", portrayed by Sianoa Smit-McPhee. She first appeared in April 2005 and left the show in July 2007.

Character's background

Bree won a national spelling bee in 2005 and was the winner of $15,000 AUD. Bree offered the money to her mother, Janelle (played by Nell Feeney), because the family was in debt at the time, but Janelle decided that the family should all get jobs and that Bree was entitled to the money she had won.

Bree re-wrote most of Janelle's first novel, "The Bogan's Tipped Hair", and this was disclosed by Janelle in an (fictional) episode of "Rove Live", a real television talk show aired on Network Ten, the same network that "Neighbours" is aired on.

In 2006, it was discovered during a science project that she is not the biological daughter of Janelle or Kim Timmins (Brett Swain). The midwife who took care of Bree at the hospital revealed that Bree was switched at birth accidentally because she didn't write out the ID tags leading to Bree wanting to find her real family. Bree's search for her real family was kept hidden from her non-biological parents because of what they might have thought, but when Janelle found out about the search, she was supportive. Bree's search ended abruptly when she received a letter from her biological parents telling her to stop searching for them; they do not want to know her.

Lately, she has decided that since she does not know her birth parents, she has no real identity. Consequentially, she has tried a range of new looks, including Paris Hilton, and most recently, Gothic. Her on-and-off boyfriend, Zeke Kinski (Matthew Werkmeister), tried to keep up with her new looks in an effort to impress her.

Bree made friends with her biggest book fan, Anne Baxter (Tessa James), who is blind. Anne was revealed to be the biological daughter of Janelle and Kim Timmins, though she tried to hide it from her and the rest of the Timmins family. Still searching for a non-Timmins identity, Bree looked into changing her name by deed poll, but after finding out that she wasn't old enough, a person must be over 18 to legally change their name she instructed her friend Rachel (Caitlin Stasey) to tell people to call her Trinity Black. After the death of her brother Stingray (Ben Nicholas), Bree dropped the "gothic" theme.

Bree's non-biological grandmother, Loris (Kate Fitzpatrick) later revealed to Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) that she swapped Bree with Anne when they were babies because she felt Janelle would be an unfit mother. She felt guilty about what she had done and said that she wanted to make things right. She then left Erinsborough. Bree is still unaware that Loris is the cause of the mix-up.

Anne returned in July 2007, and while Bree was pleased to see her, she was soon faced with her biological father (Anne's adoptive father) Greg (Chris Connelly), who had arrived in Erinsborough looking for Anne. When Greg finally accepted that Bree was really his daughter, they came up with the plan for the Timmins' to move to Cairns, so that the Baxters and Timminses could get to know each other. Dwayne, Brandon and Dylan all live up north, so they would also be closer to them.

The family had a farewell party in the street, where Steiger shocked Janelle by turning it into their wedding. Allan, Janelle, Greg, Anne and Bree then flew off to Cairns in a helicopter, leaving the waving neighbours behind.

This exit saw the end of the Timmins family (except for Janae who stayed behind to make a go of things with Ned Parker, but leaves later in February 2008), who first arrived in 2005, and had a huge impact on the show. As Steiger said in his speech, many fans feel that the exit is 'the end of an era'.

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