List of Shortland Street characters introduced in 2010

Daniel pressured Loren into sex and she seemed reluctant and blamed much of her social angst on her father Reuben Fitzpatrick (David Aston).

Brodie arrived in March and proved poor for Hunter's relationship with Tracey (Sarah Thomson) when he burnt his arm seriously and asked her to steal equipment to heal it.

He returned several months later, dropped out of med school and started to flat with Hunter and new girl - Penny Rourke (Carolyn Dando).

Quickly after getting a job at the clinic, Isaac's intentions were clear when he attempted to romance both Libby Jeffries (Fleur Saville) and Tracey Morrison (Sarah Thomson).

He briefly dated Tania (Faye Smythe) and Harry's (Reid Walker) primary school teacher before he started an intense feud with Luke Durville (Gerald Urquhart).

He started to date Brooke Freeman (Beth Allen) but his overspending resulted in a lock on his trustfund and Isaac was forced to participate in an illegal operation to fund his yacht.

Astrid Chapel was the drug addict who stabbed Hunter McKay (Lee Donoghue) in the arm with a needle during a botched burglary of an ambulance.

Astrid expressed guilt over the incident but was verbally abused by both Hunter and Callum McKay (Peter Mochrie) who arrived to save Sophie.

Amateur actors, Yvonne Jeffries (Alison Quigan), Ben Goodall (Shaun Edwards-Brown), Gerald Tippett (Harry McNaughton) and Daniel Potts (Ido Drent), all joined the club and were taken aback by Reuben's dominating personality.

However, when Reuben learned Sarah had encouraged Loren to get an abortion, he cut ties with her and attempted to sabotage her business before he quit to avoid legal action.

Zoe Archer was the dietitian love interest for Chris Warner (Michael Galvin), who debuted in April 2010 as part of deaf awareness week.

Chris was devastated when he discovered Zoe had slept with his cousin Isaac (Matt Minto) in a sick attempt to seek revenge for the failed surgery on Dallas.

Jane Perry was the barmaid who anonymously blackmailed Kieran Mitchell (Adam Rickitt) about the hit and run death of Morgan Braithwaite (Bonnie Soper).

Anita held the false hope Ben could come back alive but was eventually consulted through the ordeal by Yvonne and Hunter (Lee Donoghue).

Annette arrived in June 2010 and quickly embarrassed Brooke by getting drunk and chatting up her ex-boyfriend TK Samuels (Benjamin Mitchell).

In December it was revealed that Annette had a secret daughter named Bree (Rachel Blampied), whom she had adopted out at birth so as to stay with her husband Grant (Alan Lovell).

However it soon became apparent Penny had a larger agenda when she began to stalk Scotty (Kiel McNaughton) and ended up trying to murder him by poison and then by attempted arson.

It turned terminal and Gus eventually reconciled with his gang member son, Jared Afeaki (Beulah Koale) and controversially fell in love with his nurse Vasa Levi (Teuila Blakely).

However Garrett's womanizing ways proved too much and Ula found love with her long time crush Dallas Adams (Cameron Jones) and left to travel the world with him.

Keiran's brother Sean (Thijs Morris) tackled the two off the edge and White Dragon ended up plunging to his death, followed by Kieran's self-sacrifice.

Wendy (Jacqueline Nairn) suspected her son of using the hospital social club's credit card, however it turned out to be his sister Jasmine (Pearl McGlashan).

He faced potential spine damage when he drunkenly fell from a tree and later ran away from home and accidentally set alight to a building he had been living in.

[7] She arrived in August when Wendy (Jacqueline Nairn) learned Jasmine was being bullied by Ula Levi (Frankie Adams), leading her to steal from the hospital.

Jasmine fell in love with Colombian exchange student Angel Souza (Jesse-James Rehu Pickery) and converted to Catholicism to stay with him.

She then contracted yellow fever after her expedition in Columbia, but was saved by George Kirkwood, a medical school graduate with experience in infectious disease clinics in London.

Dr. Jennifer Mason was new surgeon hired by Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) who caused friction between him and Rachel McKenna (Angela Bloomfield).

After Wendy terminated her pregnancy in mid 2013, the relationship was again on the rocks but the two reconciled after fostering both Dayna (Lucy Elliott) and Kane Jenkins (KJ Apa).

He arrived to the hospital after crashing a hot air balloon and the staff were shocked to discover the adventurous Rafe was related to the eccentric Luke.

Hine Ryan (née Rangiuia, previously Scott) was the formerly drug addicted mother of Scotty (Kiel McNaughton), who abandoned him when he was aged 13.

Hine bonded with Tracey when it was discovered Scotty had a brain tumour and she ended up leaving to reconcile with her daughter, Rebecca (Marise Wipani) in Wellington.