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Home And Away’s Raechelle Banno bids farewell to her character Olivia Fraser-Richards

IT’S time for Raechelle Banno to play a real away game. The popular performer, better known to Home And Away fans as blonde-haired Olivia Fraser-Richards, is setting sail for new adventures and with a new look.

IT’S time for Raechelle Banno to play a real away game.

The popular performer, better known to Home And Away fans as blonde-haired Olivia Fraser-Richards, is setting sail for new adventures.

She’s saying goodbye to Summer Bay in her final episode tonight after three years and hundreds of episodes.

“When you come off any sort of project there is a certain part of it that hangs around with you,” Banno told The Daily Telegraph.

“I think it is quite nice that the part that is going to hang around is inside me rather than my look.

“I was quite attached to my hair,” she explained. “I had been the same colour for six years and I’d always say that I’d found my colour and wouldn’t change. I have not had one day of regret, it feels like me, which is really lovely.”

Raechelle Banno is ready for adventure. Picture: David Swift.
Raechelle Banno is ready for adventure. Picture: David Swift.

Banno, 25, who has a twin sister named Karina, described leaving the show as “bittersweet”.

“I didn’t go to drama school so this was my acting school,” she said. “I have a huge emotional connection to the work itself, to the people and to the routine of it all so it was certainly bittersweet and emotional.”

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Banno on her first episode of Home And Away. Picture: Channel 7
Banno on her first episode of Home And Away. Picture: Channel 7

Like so many soap stars before her, Banno has her sights set on trying her luck in Hollywood, but has vowed to keep working in Australia too.

“I’ve dipped my toe over there (in the US) and definitely expanded my team,” she said.

“I am exploring that side of the work but I am always going to be coming home too. I just love Australia and the work we produce too much to walk away from it. Australian stories, told by Australians for Australians, is so important and if I can be a part of that, I will,” she said.

“I am just really interested in variety. I am just super keen for adventure now.”

Originally published as Home And Away’s Raechelle Banno bids farewell to her character Olivia Fraser-Richards

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