Shannon Louise "Lolly" Allen (also Carpenter) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

Louise was played by Tessa Taylor from her birth, with Jiordan Tolli taking over the role a few months later.

[1] Jiordan Tolli was cast as Louise when she was two months old, following a call from casting director Jan Russ for a baby to play the role of Lou Carpenter (Tom Oliver) and Cheryl Stark's (Caroline Gillmer) young daughter.

[3] Out of 7000 entries, Adelaide Kane and Sam Clark were picked to join the cast as Louise and Ringo Brown on 4 August 2006.

[8] When John Allen (Adrian Mulraney) came forward and revealed that he was Lolly's real father, he and his wife took custody of her and she left with them.

[12] Of her return, Tolli commented "I spent a big part of my childhood on the show so it felt very comfortable coming back to the studios to film the episode.

When Lolly is two, she runs into the road and Cheryl is hit by an oncoming car trying to save her and is killed as a result, leaving Lou to bring her up alone.

When Michelle Scully (Kate Keltie) babysits Lolly, she leaves her unattended to enjoy the street's Millennium celebrations.

Lou receives a letter from John Allen telling him of his affair with Cheryl, resulting in Lolly's conception.

However, soon after this she begins missing her siblings, and confides in Bree Timmins (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) that she wants to leave Ramsay Street to go back to her biological family.

However, both Bree and Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) makes them see sense, and Lou buys himself and Lolly two plane tickets to Moscow to visit Lou's girlfriend, Mishka Schneiderova (Deborah Kennedy), before Lolly returns to her other family in Adelaide.

Six years later, Lauren Carpenter (Kate Kendall) invites Lolly to Erinsborough to help celebrate Lou's 70th birthday.

Lolly Allen is back after a gap of six years with her adoptive dad Lou, and she's all grown up.

[15] A Daily Post reporter observed "her seemingly sweet nature doesn't last long when she starts to reveal her true colours.