
Lynn Farleigh
Acting
- Born:
- 1942-05-03
- Place of birth:
- Bristol, England
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!
Known For
Filmography

The Flash

Grace

Tonight the World

Vera

Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings

Sherlock

From Time to Time
Waving at Trains

Miss Potter

He Knew He Was Right

Peep Show
Attachments

Bad Girls

FairyTale: A True Story

The Ice House

Midsomer Murders

Silent Witness

Pride and Prejudice

Finney

Suffer The Little Children
Stages

Wycliffe

Peak Practice

Tales from Hollywood

Heartbeat

Performance

Heartland

Border

The Play on One

Wish Me Luck
God's Chosen Car Park

Fighting Back

Daylight Robbery

ScreenPlay

Coming Through

The Bill
Waving to a Train
Love and Marriage
The Hard Word
Claire

Lovers of Their Time

The Workshop

American Playhouse

Bergerac
A Ferry Ride Away

Antony & Cleopatra

Clapperclaw

Fothergill

A Walk in the Forest
Sweet Nothings

Spooner's Patch

The Word

Watership Down

Out

Scorpion Tales
Cottage to Let

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Romance
The Velvet Glove

Bill Brand
Cakes and Ale

Affairs of the Heart

Fall of Eagles

Playhouse

Voices

New Scotland Yard

Justice

Eyeless in Gaza

The Guardians

Deathday

The Hallelujah Handshake

Play for Today
The Rivals
A Man for Loving

Scenes from Family Life
Plays of Today

3 Into 2 Won't Go
W. Somerset Maugham
All's Well That Ends Well

ITV Playhouse

BBC Play of the Month

Out of the Unknown

Public Eye

Theatre 625

Steptoe and Son

Z-Cars