Elle Robinson  Lucinda "Elle" Robinson is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera "Neighbours", played by Pippa Black. The character made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 19 September 2005. She was introduced as the daughter of established characters Paul (Stefan Dennis) and Gail Robinson (Fiona Corke). She is characterised as a manipulative female who executes various scams and plots against other characters. In one instance Elle feigned a terminal illness for personal gain. The character has been used to play the topical story of post traumatic stress. Production also subjected Elle to Retroactive continuity as scriptwriters aged the character considerably. In June 2009, Black announced her decision to leave "Neighbours" to seek out other roles. The character departed on 3 December 2009. Black reprised the role for a brief appearance on 9 September 2019. In September 2005, it was announced that the character would be introduced into the series following an off-screen birth. A reporter from "TV Week" revealed that scheming Elle was another "bad girl", who would give Izzy Hoyland (Natalie Bassingthwaighte) a "run for her money in the scheming stakes!" Black's casting was also publicised and Elle was her first prominent television role. Black planned to travel to London for a working holiday when she was informed that she had secured the role. Black described her experience stating "I admit I was a little star struck turning up to Ramsay Street and meeting everybody, but they all bent over backwards to help out and settle my nerves." The character has been subject to a plot hole in which she has been aged. In continuity terms Elle was born off-screen in October 1989, when she returned in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Retroactive continuity or the SORAS phenomenon occurred with Elle and her two on-screen brothers Cameron and Robert (both played by Adam Hunter) being aged to nineteen. Elle's persona has often been portrayed as manipulative and ruthless. Of Elle, Black has described her stating: “Viewers will recognise Elle as a fairly cold, hard, fairly manipulative character.” Black also praised her characters maturity during her relationship with Oliver Barnes (David Hoflin) adding: “Lately she’s shown a softer, more mature side to her personality. I like it when the scriptwriters choose to show a caring side to Elle as it makes her more of an interesting person to play.”