Lynn Farleigh
Acting • Born 1942-05-03
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
72 credits
Lovers of Their Time
Movie • 1982
Hilda Britt
The Flash
Movie • 2023
Judge
Deathday
Movie • 1971
Lydia Crosse
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Movie • 1969
Janet
Voices
Movie • 1973
The Mother
The Rivals
Movie • 1970
Julia
Daylight Robbery
Movie • 1986
Helen
God's Chosen Car Park
Movie • 1986
Irene Box
A Man for Loving
Movie • 1970
Isobel Francis
Suffer The Little Children
Movie • 1994
Solicitor
A Ferry Ride Away
Movie • 1981
Heather Massie
The Hallelujah Handshake
Movie • 1970
Anne
Coming Through
Movie • 1985
Lydia Lawrence
Waving at Trains
Movie • 2009
Annabelle Warren
A Walk in the Forest
Movie • 1980
Catherine Clements
All's Well That Ends Well
Movie • 1968
Helena
Tales from Hollywood
Movie • 1992
Helene Weigel
From Time to Time
Movie • 2009
Gypsy
Miss Potter
Movie • 2006
Lady Sybil
Watership Down
Movie • 1978
Cat (voice)
Fighting Back
Movie • 1986
Barbara Merrick
FairyTale: A True Story
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
Tonight the World
Movie • 2019
Antony & Cleopatra
Movie • 1981
Octavia
Heartland
Movie • 1989
Rachel
Scenes from Family Life
Movie • 1969
Marie
Border
Movie • 1988
Mrs Fialova
Fothergill
Movie • 1981
Kate
Clapperclaw
Movie • 1981
Lorna
The Workshop
Movie • 1982
Simone
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Movie • 2010
Pam Corrigan
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Sonia Madrigal
Wycliffe
TV • 1994
Helen Wycliffe
Affairs of the Heart
TV • 1983
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Joan Grant
The Bill
TV • 1984
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Pride and Prejudice
TV • 1995
Mrs Phillips
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Ann Cunningham
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Mary Radcliffe
Pride and Prejudice
TV • 1995
Mrs. Phillips
The Word
TV • 1978
Valerie Hughs
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Krupskaya
The Guardians
TV • 1971
Sherlock
TV • 2010
Professor Cairns
Bad Girls
TV • 1999
Mrs Williams
Peep Show
TV • 2003
Pam Corrigan
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Moira Pearce
Justice
TV • 1971
Muriel Parker
Vera
TV • 2011
Valerie Furlow
He Knew He Was Right
TV • 2004
Mrs. Outhouse
The Ice House
TV • 1997
Mrs. Thompson
Bill Brand
TV • 1976
Miriam Brand
Finney
TV • 1994
Mary Finney
Public Eye
TV • 1965
Valerie Pratt
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Joan Dyson
Out
TV • 1978
Anne Ross
Attachments
TV • 2000
Dr Heather Green
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Kate
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Lorna
Performance
TV • 1991
Helene Weigel
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Simone
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Julia
Grace
TV • 2021
Alma Starr
Scorpion Tales
TV • 1978
Virginia Ward
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
TV • 1977
Doreen Periam
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Ann Fazakerley
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Lydia Crosse
Wish Me Luck
TV • 1988
Vivien Ashton