| Evelyn MacGuire | |||||||||||||||||
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| Home and Away character | |||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Philippa Northeast | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2013–2017 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 3 September 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 24 May 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Lucy Addario | ||||||||||||||||
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Evelyn "Evie" MacGuire is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Philippa Northeast. The actress was cast in the role after a successful audition and a callback, in which she was paired with various actors to find the right one to play Evelyn's brother. Northeast had to relocate from her home town of Melbourne to Sydney for filming. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 3 September 2013. Northeast left Home and Away in 2016, and her character made her departure on 24 May 2017.
Evelyn was introduced to the show along with her twin brother Oscar (Jake Speer) and their aunt Hannah Wilson (Cassie Howarth), creating a family for established character Zac MacGuire (Charlie Clausen). Evelyn is portrayed as being gentle, strong-willed, feisty and down-to-earth. She and her brother entered the show as part of a cult storyline. The twins were forced to join the cult by their father Ethan (Matt Minto) and they had differing opinions about living at the camp. The character's early storylines focused on her rescue from the cult and later return. A few months after settling into Summer Bay, produces developed Evie's first major relationship with Josh Barrett (Jackson Gallagher). The couple break up when Josh begins using drugs.
Evie was later paired with newcomer Tank Snelgrove (Reece Milne). Tank's influence on Evie caused her to rebel against her friends and family. The relationship also explored the topic of unprotected sex, a storyline that Northeast was glad to have the chance to take on. Evie and Josh are later reunited and become engaged. An issue-led storyline focusing on the BRCA1 gene saw the character go through a cancer scare. This was followed by the deaths of Hannah and Oscar, which led Northeast to worry that her character was also going to be killed off. After Josh goes to prison for killing Charlotte King (Erika Heynatz), producers established a romantic relationship between Evie and Matt Page (Alec Snow), and they departed the serial together.