Lynn Farleigh
Born: 1942-05-03 in Bristol, England
Known For: Acting
Biography
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!
Filmography
2023
- The Flash as Judge
2021
- Grace as Alma Starr
2019
2011
- Vera as Valerie Furlow
2010
- Sherlock as Professor Cairns
- Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings as Pam Corrigan
2009
- From Time to Time as Gypsy
- Waving at Trains as Annabelle Warren
2006
- Miss Potter as Lady Sybil
2004
- He Knew He Was Right as Mrs Outhouse
2003
- Peep Show as Pam Corrigan
2000
- Attachments as Dr Heather Green
1999
- Bad Girls as Mrs Williams
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Sonia Madrigal
- The Ice House as Mrs. Thompson
- FairyTale: A True Story as Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
1996
- Silent Witness as Ann Cunningham
1995
- Pride and Prejudice as Mrs Phillips
1994
- Wycliffe as Helen Wycliffe
- Finney as Mary Finney
- Suffer The Little Children as Solicitor
1993
- Peak Practice as Moira Pearce
1992
- Heartbeat as Mary Radcliffe
- Tales from Hollywood as Helene Weigel
1991
- Performance as Helene Weigel
1989
- Heartland as Rachel
1988
- The Play on One as Rachel
- Wish Me Luck as Vivien Ashton
- Border as Mrs Fialova
1986
- ScreenPlay as Helen
- Fighting Back as Barbara Merrick
- God's Chosen Car Park as Irene Box
- Daylight Robbery as Helen
1985
- Coming Through as Lydia Lawrence
1984
- The Bill
- Love and Marriage as Christine
- Waving to a Train as Mother
1983
- The Hard Word as Sarah Wood
- Affairs of the Heart
1982
- All for Love as Hilda Britt
- Claire as Pam Hunter
- The Workshop as Simone
- Lovers of Their Time as Hilda Britt
1981
- Bergerac as Joan Grant
- Clapperclaw as Lorna
- Antony & Cleopatra as Octavia
- Fothergill as Kate
- A Ferry Ride Away as Heather Massie
1980
- A Walk in the Forest as Catherine Clements
1979
- Spooner's Patch as Mrs Webster
1978
- Out as Anne Ross
- The Word as Valerie Hughs
- Watership Down as Cat (voice)
- Scorpion Tales as Virginia Ward
1977
- Romance as Heather
- Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle as Doreen Periam
- The Velvet Glove as Edith Cavell
- Cottage to Let as Jan
1976
- Bill Brand as Miriam Brand
- Cakes and Ale as Amy Driffield
1974
- Playhouse as Kate
- Fall of Eagles as Krupskaya
- Affairs of the Heart as Catherine Sloper
1973
- Voices as The Mother
1972
- New Scotland Yard as Sarah Belmont
1971
- Justice as Muriel Parker
- The Guardians as Eleanor Benedict
- Eyeless in Gaza as Helen Amberley
- Deathday as Lydia Crosse
1970
- Play for Today
- The Rivals as Julia
- The Hallelujah Handshake as Anne
- A Man for Loving as Isobel Francis
1969
- W. Somerset Maugham as Doris Hanson
- Plays of Today as Marie
- 3 Into 2 Won't Go as Janet
- Scenes from Family Life as Marie
1968
- All's Well That Ends Well as Helena
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Miss Charlotte Plummer
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Julia
- Public Eye as Valerie Pratt
- Out of the Unknown as Lydia Crosse