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!
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Movies (32)
Flash
2023 · Judge
Tonight the World
2019
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010 · Pam Corrigan
From Time to Time
2009 · Gypsy
Waving at Trains
2009 · Annabelle Warren
Miss Potter
2006 · Lady Sybil
FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
Suffer The Little Children
1994 · Solicitor
Tales from Hollywood
1992 · Helene Weigel
Heartland
1989 · Rachel
Border
1988 · Mrs Fialova
God's Chosen Car Park
1986 · Irene Box
Fighting Back
1986 · Barbara Merrick
Daylight Robbery
1986 · Helen
Coming Through
1985 · Lydia Lawrence
Waving to a Train
1984 · Mother
Lovers of Their Time
1982 · Hilda Britt
The Workshop
1982 · Simone
A Ferry Ride Away
1981 · Heather Massie
Antony & Cleopatra
1981 · Octavia
Clapperclaw
1981 · Lorna
Fothergill
1981 · Kate
A Walk in the Forest
1980 · Catherine Clements
Watership Down
1978 · Cat (voice)
Voices
1973 · The Mother
Deathday
1971 · Lydia Crosse
The Hallelujah Handshake
1970 · Anne
The Rivals
1970 · Julia
A Man for Loving
1970 · Isobel Francis
Scenes from Family Life
1969 · Marie
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969 · Janet
All's Well That Ends Well
1968 · Helena
TV shows (55)
Grace
2021 · Alma Starr
Vera
2011 · Valerie Furlow
Sherlock
2010 · Professor Cairns
He Knew He Was Right
2004 · Mrs Outhouse
Peep Show
2003 · Pam Corrigan
Attachments
2000 · Dr Heather Green
Bad Girls
1999 · Mrs Williams
The Ice House
1997 · Mrs. Thompson
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Sonia Madrigal
Silent Witness
1996 · Ann Cunningham
Pride and Prejudice
1995 · Mrs Phillips, Mrs. Phillips
Finney
1994 · Mary Finney
Stages
1994 · Solicitor
Wycliffe
1994 · Helen Wycliffe
Peak Practice
1993 · Moira Pearce
Heartbeat
1992 · Mary Radcliffe, Joan Dyson
Performance
1991 · Helene Weigel
The Play on One
1988 · Rachel
Wish Me Luck
1988 · Vivien Ashton
ScreenPlay
1986 · Helen
The Bill
1984
Love and Marriage
1984 · Christine, Cathy
The Hard Word
1983 · Sarah Wood
Claire
1982 · Pam Hunter
All for Love
1982 · Hilda Britt
American Playhouse
1982 · Helene Weigel
Bergerac
1981 · Joan Grant
Sweet Nothings
1980 · Mary Fearon
Spooner's Patch
1979 · Mrs Webster
The Word
1978 · Valerie Hughs
Out
1978 · Anne Ross
Scorpion Tales
1978 · Virginia Ward
Cottage to Let
1977 · Jan
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977 · Doreen Periam
Romance
1977 · Heather
The Velvet Glove
1977 · Edith Cavell
Bill Brand
1976 · Miriam Brand
Cakes and Ale
1976 · Amy Driffield
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · Catherine Sloper
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Krupskaya, Nadezhda Krupskaya
Playhouse
1974 · Kate, Lorna, Simone
New Scotland Yard
1972 · Sarah Belmont
Justice
1971 · Muriel Parker
Eyeless in Gaza
1971 · Helen Amberley
The Guardians
1971 · Eleanor Benedict
Play for Today
1970
Plays of Today
1969 · Marie
W. Somerset Maugham
1969 · Doris Hanson
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Miss Charlotte Plummer, Isobel Francis, Heather Massie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Julia
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Lydia Crosse
Public Eye
1965 · Valerie Pratt
Theatre 625
1964
Steptoe and Son
1962 · Marcia Wrigley
Z-Cars
1962 · Ann Fazakerley