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Lucinda Cowden (born 24 April 1965) is an Australian actress.
Cowden was born in Ballarat, Victoria. She played Melanie Pearson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1987 until 1991, with a cameo appearance in the 20th anniversary documentary in 2005. She reprised the role in January 2021.
Cowden left Neighbours in 1991, and later admitted that she did not want to be typecast. She then went to the United Kingdom and appeared as Aladdin at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. She also embarked on a 12-week tour of the UK as Peter Pan. Cowden presented the second and third seasons of the BBC children's television series, Parallel 9. She was a voice actress on the children's show The Koala Brothers.
Cowden returned to Neighbours in 2020. Cowden also reprised the role again in 2023 after the series was picked up by Amazon Freevee. On 29 October 2024, Cowden confirmed her exit from the show, Cowden said that she knew of her character's departure in December just days after co-star Ryan Moloney found out about his contract ending, Moloney had announced his exit from the show in June 2024. Cowden also confirmed the decision to leave the show was not hers as the contracts for cast came up all at once. Cowden revealed that when she was filming her final scene she had broken her nose after falling on set.




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External links


Lucinda Cowden at IMDb

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• Neighbours
• Lucinda Cowden
• Melanie Pearson
• List of Neighbours characters
• Cowden (disambiguation)
• Toadie Rebecchi
• Lucinda (given name)
• Episode 8904
• List of Neighbours characters introduced in 2024
• The Koala Brothers
• Ramsay Street