Sophie Dean (also Simpson) is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Rebekah Elmaloglou.

[3] When Sophie returns, her daughter Tamara has just began attending high school and her ex-boyfriend Blake Dean (Les Hill) begins to develop romantic feelings for her again.

[6] Sophie's mother died when she was young and was in and out of foster homes until her father Al (Terence Donovan) showed up and offered her a place with him.

Al is later arrested for the murder of Shane Wilson, whom he killed eight years prior and Sophie then is fostered by Tom (Roger Oakley) and Pippa Fletcher (Vanessa Downing).

Pippa discovers that Sophie is illiterate and the family help her catch up with her education and receives extra help from newly arrived schoolteacher Grant Mitchell (Craig McLachlan).

After Sophie's relationship with Haydn fizzles out and she soon turns her attentions to David Croft (Guy Pearce), Donald Fisher's (Norman Coburn) nephew and a teacher at Summer Bay High.

Sophie goes into labour and Pippa and Michael are on hand to support her and she gives birth to a baby girl, who she names Tamara (Emily & Chloe Hutton).

Sophie takes a job at an office to support Tamara but finds herself fighting off the unwanted advances of her boss Colin Smithers (Frank Garfield) who kisses her one day.

"[10] Jess McGuire of Defamer said that she found Sophie and Blake being intimate, more disturbing to watch than Charlie Buckton and Joey Collins kissing.