Finlay "Fin" Roberts is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, portrayed by Tina Thomsen.

"[1] In February 1994, Di Stanley of TV Week confirmed Thomsen would be departing the serial and filming her final scenes on 25 March.

"[2] Thomsen pointed out that Fin had not had a storyline in a long time, which is what sparked her decision to leave the show and pursue something else.

"[2] Thomsen was grateful for the exposure she had received from the show, for the friends she had made, and her partner at the time, Andrew Hill, who played Haydn Ross.

[5] Blake continues to battle his grief over losing his girlfriend Meg Bowman (Cathy Godbold), who died from leukaemia.

Di Stanley from TV Week revealed that Finlay believes she has found the love she had long sought "after a turbulent and affection-starved childhood.

[5] However, Finlay fails to resurface after the dive because her oxygen supply is cut short and Blake fears that she has drowned.

[7] The storyline served as the serial's end-of-year "cliff-hanger" and viewers had to wait until the series returned to find out whether or not Finlay survives.

A writer from The Sun-Herald said that she would survive and be "possibly suffering from brain damage", while Inside Soap's reporter revealed that the character's "life hangs in the balance".

[10] Thomsen told Robert Kilroy-Silk on his show Kilroy Down Under that Finlay had a positive influence on young people at times.

She added that it was a topic that "a lot of girls needed to know the effects of and after they watched it they sort of became aware of what was going to happen to them and that it was affecting them in the wrong way."

[9] Finlay first appears as a runaway who unsuccessfully attempts to get a free meal from the Diner and sleeps at the boat shed.

She spends the night on one of the boats but wakes up to find it has been taken out by Nick Parrish (Bruce Roberts) and Lucinda Croft (Dee Smart).

Sophie helps persuade Ailsa Stewart (Judy Nunn and Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson) to give her a job at the Diner.

As part of a deal she had earlier made with them, Finlay moves in with Sophie's foster parents Michael (Dennis Coard) and Pippa Ross (Debra Lawrance.

Donald checks her records and learns that her mother Irene (Jacqui Phillips) has reported her missing, meaning he is obliged to tell the police where she is.

When Sophie starts dating Simon Fitzgerald (Richard Norton), Fin betrays her confidence and tells him about the pregnancy.

When she asks to go away with him and his friends for the weekend, Michael refuses and although he agrees to let her spend the day with them, he tells her if she stays overnight she will not be welcome in the house.

Robert gets some stolen exam papers so they can cheat but Fin has an attack of conscience and confesses to Nick, meaning she has to repeat the year.

When he returns and tries to mend his ways, Roxanne Miller (Lisa Lackey) convinces Finlay to give Haydn another chance.

Haydn convinces Fin to help him with a plan to win enough money to pay Michael and Pippa back but his horse loses.