Annette Thorpe

Annette Marie Thorpe (nee Nilsen) is a resident of Beacon Hills. She lives there with her husband Fredrik Thorpe and her son Johannes Thorpe.

The Thorpe Villa is her official address, but she is rarely in town as her work as a TV chef brings her all over the world.

Biography
Annette was born and raised in a town in Norway along with her two brothers. At an early age she grew a love for cooking and decided that being a chef was her life goal. She studied at a culinary school before getting the opportunity to appear in the Norwegian show God Morgen Norge. Due to the persona she had on the show, her skills and her humor, she quickly grew in popularity and was invited to more Norwegian shows.

Some years later she worked as a chef at the Valhalla Resort Oslo. During one work shift she ran into the young owner of the hotel and they quickly became friends. Barely two years after they met, they got married and were supposed to have their first child. Annette and Fredrik lost their baby girl at birth, and while it devastated the two of them, it wasn't long until Annette became pregnant again. They decided that they wanted a new place for their new child, one that wasn't haunted by the hopes and possibilities of a child that was gone.

They moved to Beacon Hills, the first place Fredrik had established his own hotel. For a couple of years they lived in a rented house, while their own custom made villa was being built. They spent most of that time with Johannes, and treasured every moment of it. After moving to the villa both Annette and her husband started working again, leaving their son more and more at home. Annette felt bad for not being with her son as much as she should have, but work forced her to travel a lot.

To her time passed quite quickly and before she realized it, her baby boy was a teenager. Now that he was more mature, she started to bring him along on her trips. One winter, while the family vacationed in the Alps, and Annette was doing filming, Johannes was taken by an avalanche. For half an hour, Annette was sure that she had lost her second child and was struck by grief. Even when they rescued him from the snow, the feeling of losing him stuck to her, and she grew distant from her son once again.