Bree Timmins

Bree Timmins is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Sianoa Smit McPhee. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 4 April 2005. The character was written out in 2006 and she made her final appearance on 13 July 2007.

Smit McPhee joined Neighbours in the role of Bree Timmins in early 2005 when she was thirteen years old. In December 2006 it was announced that the Neighbours producers had decided to write out the characters of Bree and her on screen mother, Janelle (Nell Feeney). They took the decision not to renew the contracts of Smit McPhee and Feeney, following the departures of Ben Nicholas (Stingray Timmins) and Damien Bodie (Dylan Timmins). Co star Ian Smith (Harold Bishop) called the decision a "huge mistake". She added, "I didn't want to stay (on Neighbours) any longer and if I'd stayed there more than that I would be known as just Bree and I wanted to do something different." They call her an "introverted and studious girl" and the problem solver of the Timmins family. She "clearly possessed an overactive imagination fueled by years of reading trashy novels and her bizarre flights of fantasy made her a bit of an outsider." In her early years, Bree was shy, but when she discovers she is not biologically related to the Timmins, she craves a new identity as a "disaffected and disillusioned young adolescent teenager" and transforms into a goth. Larissa Dubecki from The Age praised Bree for redeeming the Timmins family. Dubecki wrote, "played with all the knowing insouciance a 13 year old can muster by Sianoa Smit McPhee. Bree is positively sage like amid the daily hysteria of her mob." She compared Bree to Darlene from Roseanne and added that "her raised eyebrow archness pleases." They observed that Bree had "shown her devious side a few times", suggesting that she might be a Timmins after all.