Toni Warner

Infobox soap character
colour = Television colour|Neighbours
name = Toni Warner
portrayer = Laura Hill
first = 2001
last = 2008
gender = Female
alias =
birth =
death = dts|2008|Jun|12
home = Shortland Street Hospital for 7 weeks
occupation = Nurse
parents = Ngaire Thompson (mother)
spouse = Dr. Chris Warner (husband, separated)
children =Harry Warner
James Warner (unborn son to Chris Warner)
siblings = Dominic Thompson (brother - deceased)

Toni Warner (née Thompson) was a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera "Shortland Street". She was portrayed by Laura Hill from 2001 until 2008.

She was briefly married to nurse Matt McCallister in 2002 until he cheated on her with Li Mei Chen. She was also romantically involved with doctors Adam Heywood and Logan King.

She was nursing manager at Shortland Street Hospital and head nurse of the Primary Care Clinic where she worked with Callum McKay. She married Dr. Chris Warner in 2004, they separated in 2007. Toni had a younger brother, Dominic Thompson who killed Dr. Geoff Greenlaw and PA Avril Lurich, before committing suicide in 2004.

On The Run

During 2007 she fled with Harry and her brother-in-law Guy after she discovered that her husband Chris had cheated on her with Rachel McKenna and Justine Jones. Chris ran after them when their flagged passports passed through Sydney Airport, and left Craig as acting CEO of the hospital. Now Chris discovered he can trace them from the IP address of their emails his niece Tuesday sent him and learnt they were in Australia. Toni had applied for full custody of Harry, prompting outrage from Chris. Lara Wade a police officer working on the Ferndale Strangler case told Chris that Toni and Harry were in Christchurch. He found their house and met his niece and Harry, who run off when they were supposedly inside the house to get Harry's puppy.

Car Crash

In December Toni returned to Ferndale with Guy, Tuesday and Harry. In the 2007 season finale she was involved in a car crash with Guy Warner, Tuesday Warner and her son Harry. In the 2008 season premiere it was revealed she had survived the crash but she was rushed into surgery and lost a kidney; as her surviving kidney was also damaged and she could end up on dialysis.

Aftermath of the Crash

On January 23, 2008 Toni was released from hospital and stayed with Sarah and TK Samuels. The same day she was visited by Callum McKay (they became friends when they discovered Chris and Justine were having an affair) he offered her her old job at the Primary Care Clinic and Toni received a pleading phone call from Guy from rehab said it was over and bye but she refused to believe him and after a talk with Tuesday; Toni returned to Guy and opened up to him about how they are the same and belong together the conversation ended with them kissing.

In recent times, Toni and Chris had the opportunity to talk through their last tumultuous months and have each accepted responsibility for their past actions and had planned a friendly divorce.

Death

Toni caught the Norovirus when she came in contact with a rest home patient being admitted for surgery at the hospital. Toni unware of the outbreak came down with what she was a stomach bug which Harry had a day earlier. On June 11 2008 she went home to sleep, and was found by Sarah the next morning Thursday June 12 severely dehydrated. She was taken to hospital. lab tests revealed that the norovirus had damaged her remaining kidney, which meant being on dialysis for the rest of her life. She accepted Chris's invitation to live with him permanently. However, after her first dialysis session Toni's blood pressure dropped suddenly and attempts to her revive her failed and she died. A post mortem determined Toni died from cardiac arrest. Toni was farewelled at an emotional funeral a few days later.