Neighbours icon Anne Wilkinson looks incredible 20 years after quitting soap

18 September 2023 , 07:56

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Neighbours icon Anne Wilkinson looks incredible 20 years after quitting soap

She shot to fame as schoolgirl Anne Wilkinson in TV show Neighbours.

More than 20 years on from her big break, actress Brooke Satchwell is a million miles away from her Erinsborough alter ego. In fact, the 42-year-old star, who transfixed countless teenage boys during her tenure on the Aussie soap, has blossomed into a glamorous grown-up. And, impressively, she's hardly aged a day in the process.

Pictures of the performer at Sydney's Annual Helpmann Awards show the brunette babe looking fantastic. Sporting a semi-sheer black dress and graceful pose, there's no sign of the awkward teen she embodied on the show. Instead, Brooke exudes poise and sex appeal on the red carpet, while simultaneously retaining a youthful glow.

Brooke doesn't appear to have aged a day (WireImage)

Anne was an iconic Neighbours character

Fortunately, she's had plenty of experience in front of the cameras to perfect her appearance. After leaving neighbours in 2000, she went on to have supporting roles in a number of Aussie dramas, including Water Rats, BeatMaster and White Collar Blue. A short time later, in 2004, she became a brand ambassador for Pantene hair care range.

In 2008 she was cast in her first-ever film, Subdivision, which tells the tale of a community under threat from city developers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the film was only released domestically in Australia and performed moderately well for an independent - earning $206,350 at the box office. The same year, Brooke was caught-up in the Mumbai Terror Attacks while filming in India.

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Staying at the Taj Hotel, which was occupied by Islamic militants, she spent an hour hiding in the bathroom before escaping - climbing over dead bodies as she went. People were getting shot in the corridor and there was someone dead out the front of the bathroom," she told National Nine News. Next thing I knew I was running down the stairs and there were a couple of dead bodies across the stairs. It was chaos."

Jasmine Allday