Lynn Farleigh
Lynn Farleigh, a Bristolian, trained at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career in rep at Salisbury. She has worked many times for the ESC, the RSC and the National Theatre, recently in the acclaimed production of “Three Days in the Country”. Shakespeare roles include Helena in All's Well That Ends Well, Viola , Hermione, Lady Anne, Titania, Portia and Lady Macbeth. Much television work includes Steptoe and Son, Pride and Prejudice, Finney, Out, Wycliffe (as Helen), Midsomer Murders, and more recently in Vera, Lightfields, Casualty, EastEnders and Silent Witness.
Lynn works with students and young actors and has directed eight plays for the British American Drama Academy, the most recent was her version of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time”. She lives in north Oxfordshire with her actor husband and a very elderly but demanding three-legged cat, Lucie!
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Sonia Madrigal
Z-Cars
Play for Today
BBC Play of the Month
Julia
Silent Witness
Ann Cunningham
Playhouse
Kate
Playhouse
Lorna
Playhouse
Simone
Vera
Valerie Furlow
Sherlock
Professor Cairns
Peep Show
Pam Corrigan
Bergerac
Joan Grant
Bad Girls
Mrs Williams
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Octavia
Peak Practice
Moira Pearce
Public Eye
Valerie Pratt
Murder Most English
Doreen Periam
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs Phillips
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Phillips
Justice
Muriel Parker
Wycliffe
Helen Wycliffe
Performance
Helene Weigel
Heartbeat
Mary Radcliffe
Heartbeat
Joan Dyson
The Flash
Judge
The Strauss Family
The Bill
Wish Me Luck
Attachments
Dr Heather Green
The Guardians
Out
Anne Ross
The Ice House
Mrs. Thompson
Bill Brand
Miriam Brand
The Word
Valerie Hughs
Fall of Eagles
Krupskaya
He Knew He Was Right
Mrs. Outhouse
Watership Down
Cat (voice)
Miss Potter
Lady Sybil
From Time to Time
Gypsy
Affairs of the Heart
Scorpion Tales
Virginia Ward
Finney
Mary Finney
FairyTale: A True Story
Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
Antony & Cleopatra
Octavia
Tales from Hollywood
Helene Weigel
Coming Through
Lydia Lawrence
Fighting Back
Barbara Merrick
Fothergill
Kate
Heartland
Rachel
Clapperclaw
Lorna
Voices
The Mother
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Janet
God's Chosen Car Park
Irene Box
Scenes from Family Life
Marie
Border
Mrs Fialova
The Hallelujah Handshake
Anne
A Walk in the Forest
Catherine Clements
The Rivals
Julia
Suffer The Little Children
Solicitor
The Workshop
Simone
Lovers of Their Time
Hilda Britt
Tonight the World
A Ferry Ride Away
Heather Massie
Daylight Robbery
Helen
All's Well That Ends Well
Helena
A Man for Loving
Isobel Francis
Deathday
Lydia Crosse
Waving at Trains
Annabelle Warren