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Andrew "Drew" Kirk is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Dan Paris. Following his decision to move into acting, Paris won the role of Drew after attending his first ever audition. He admitted that he initially found filming difficult, as he was not sure what he was doing. He made his first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 27 March 1998. Drew was a country boy from a farm in Oakey. Upon arriving in Erinsborough, Drew found employment at the local garage. Drew was portrayed as nice, naive and loyal. Paris shared many similarities with his character and they came from similar backgrounds. Drew was also known for his long hair, which gave him a "hippy look". The character began a relationship with established character Libby Kennedy (Kym Valentine), which eventually saw them marry and have a child together. Paris chose to leave Neighbours in 2002 to pursue new challenges and Drew made his final on screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 13 September 2002, but was killed off in the next episode. Three years later, Paris reprised his role and Drew began appearing in Stephanie Scully's (Carla Bonner) dreams. A Daily Record reporter called Drew's return "an X Files style plot". In 2014, Drew appeared as a zombie in the webisode spinoff Neighbours vs Zombies.

Shortly after former model Dan Paris made the decision to move into acting, he began asking his agent to send him to castings and Neighbours was the first show he auditioned for. Paris won the role of Drew straight away. Paris trained with a drama coach for a week before he filmed his first scenes. He initially found the work hard, saying "I had no idea what I was doing when I started. I thought all I would have to do was go in a say my lines, but it turned out to be a lot harder than that."

Drew is a country boy who works on a farm in Oakey. He comes to Erinsborough to stay with his aunt Janet (Roberta Connelly) and is later hired by Lou Carpenter (Tom Oliver) to work at Carpenter Mechanics, replacing Ben Atkins (Brett Cousins). James Joyce of the Newcastle Herald said Drew was a "suitably spunky rival for established stud Ben, who thinks his boss has shafted him as he recovers from his car accident." Colin Vickery of the Herald Sun noted that once the women of Erinsborough see Drew, their cars "suddenly" start having problems which only he can fix. Paris commented: "Drew's more than slightly naive. He thinks these women are coming to him because he's good at fixing cars!" Jason Herbison from Inside Soap observed that Paris shared many similarities with Drew, most notably his loyalty, sense of humour and that they were both from the Australian outback and preferred the outdoors. Paris said that unlike himself, Drew was more traditional when it came to things like marriage and starting a family. When Paris asked producers if he could cut his hair, they turned down his request and invoked his contract, saying they did not want to upset Paris's female fans. Drew and Libby eventually began a relationship during a trip to Drew's home town of Oakey. Both Drew and Libby worried that a relationship would ruin their good friendship and Paris told an All About Soap writer that the couple's romance started out with them exploiting each other's differences and working out how to deal with each other's likes and dislikes. Paris explained that Drew was obviously concerned for his fiancée, but when he was told by the doctors that Brendan Bell (Blair Venn) was responsible, he had to confront him. Paris confirmed that Drew was unprepared for Libby's announcement. Although he had noticed that she had begun pulling away from him, he had put it down to what she was going through. Herbison confirmed that Drew was to be killed off in a cliffhanger episode, after Paris decided to exit the show to pursue "fresh challenges". He explained "I've taken the character as far as he can go, and personally, I've learned about as much as I can. I'm now in the frame of mind to do other things." He told Bucklow that he asked for his character to be killed off, saying "They said to me that obviously if I was killed off that I couldn't come back. And I said, 'You know what? I think I need the door shut because I know that when the money runs out that I'm going to want to come back.' I needed to do other things in life and at the time that felt really right." Paris was transformed into a zombie with the help of make up and he was reunited with Alan Fletcher and Jackie Woodburne who played Drew's in laws Karl and Susan Kennedy. In June 2002, Drew came fourth in a poll run by Newsround to find viewer's favourite Neighbours character. He received 11.57% of the vote. Of the character's debut, the Herald Sun'''s Colin Vickery observed: "Neighbours gets a hunky new resident tomorrow night. He's virile young mechanic Andrew (Drew) Kirk and Ramsay St's female hearts are in a flutter." A Virgin Media contributor included Drew in their feature on "Soap's most tragic deaths", they said "Even if you didn't shed a tear when Neighbours hottie Drew died after falling off his horse in his hometown of Oakey, nothing could have stopped the emotions when his wife Libby sang at his funeral a few days later." Of Drew exit, Cameron Adams from the Herald Sun quipped "Erinsborough isn't big enough for two hotties, so with Blair now on Ramsay St, it's time for Dan Paris (Drew) to exit." Remarking on how quick the character's departure occurs, The Daily Telegraph's Darren Devlyn stated "It's rare that a soap will dispense with one of its key characters within one episode. Dead and buried in 30 minutes." A reporter for the Daily Record'' was less than impressed by Drew's 2005 return, saying "The Erinsborough based soap has been accused of having far fetched storylines – and it outdoes itself this week as, in an X Files style plot, Steph continues to have dreams of Drew, Libby's long dead husband."