Nicolle Dickson (2018)
Nicolle Dickson (born 1969) is a former actress who played Bobby Marshall (née Simpson) from 1988 to 1993. She was seen again in 1995 when her now deceased character appeared as a hallucination to Ailsa Stewart.
Pre Home And Away career[]
Nicolle Dickson was born in 1969 and grew up in a suburb of Sydney[1]. As a child, she was a member of a children's theatre company called Keane Kids. She left school in 1986 and had enrolled in a university course when she auditioned for the role of Bobby Simpson. She won the role in June 1987 and the pilot episode of Home And Away was filmed the following month.
Home And Away 1988-1993, 1995[]
Bobby on the Burgerphone
Nicolle went on to play Bobby for 6 years and the character became very popular. In 1989, Nicolle won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent. In that same year, Bobby's marriage to Frank Morgan (Alex Papps) was a ratings winner. During her time on Home and Away, Bobby went from being a scruffy teenage tearaway on the verge of imprisonment to a married foster mum and co-owner of the local diner. In 1993 Nicolle decided to leave Home and Away and her character was killed off in a boating accident.
In 1995, Nicolle briefly returned as Bobby, and no, she was not bought back from the dead. She appeared as a hallucination to Ailsa who had taken some very out of date anti-depressants. Bobby's reappearance through the Stewart's fridge door has become a somewhat iconic moment in Home and Away's history. Perhaps not for the right reasons.
After Home And Away[]
Nicolle and Alex Papps in the 2018 documentary Endless Summer
After leaving Home and Away, Nicolle found acting jobs hard to come by[2]. She made guest appearances in G.P., Murder Call and All Saints but job offers began to slow. Nicolle began to work as a book-keeper in her husband James's real-estate business[3]. This sowed the seeds for her new career as an accountant. Nicolle continues to work in this field. She and James have two grown-up sons called Lincoln and Winston.
In 2018, Nicolle and Alex Papps returned to the set of Home and Away as part of the 30th anniversary documentary Endless Summer.
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