Anne Kahu (also Brownlee and Greenlaw) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street who was portrayed by Emmeline Hawthorne from late 2001 until early 2004.

[4] Anne arrived after getting a job as a nurse at Shortland Street, where her adoptive brother, Geoff (Andrew Laing), worked as a doctor.

Anne decided to locate her adoptive mother and in the process of finding her identity, began dating a newly single Victor.

The two decided to adopt Tama (David Wikaira-Paul) and Shannon's (Amber Curreen) child, but it died shortly after birth and a devastated Anne began an affair with Nelson.

Upon the soap opera's revamp in 2000, part of the producers plan was to present a more community based setting with steady family links between characters.

[2] Upon her arrival Anne initially gets on the bad side of Judy with Hawthorne stating; "I come along very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, with a whole lot of ideas about how the old people shouldn’t be on the sleeping pills...

So Judy Brownlee automatically thinks I’m useless and I have to do all the terrible jobs, like cleaning up the sluice room and emptying the linen skips and doing tea rounds.”[3] The adopted Anne then set out on a "standard soap opera story" to find her biological mother.

[2] The scene where Hawthorne's character prepared to romance her real life father (Rex Treherne), has been described as one of Shortland Street's strangest sights.