Lynn Farleigh
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!
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Sonia Madrigal
- Vera (2011) as Valerie Furlow
- Play for Today (1970)
- Silent Witness (1996) as Ann Cunningham
- Peak Practice (1993) as Moira Pearce
- Heartbeat (1992) as Mary Radcliffe
- Heartbeat (1992) as Joan Dyson
- Sherlock (2010) as Professor Cairns
- Bergerac (1981) as Joan Grant
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Julia
- Z-Cars (1962)
- Z-Cars (1962) as Ann Fazakerley
- The Bill (1984)
- Playhouse (1974) as Kate
- Playhouse (1974) as Lorna
- Playhouse (1974) as Simone
- Bad Girls (1999) as Mrs Williams
- Grace (2021) as Alma Starr
- The Flash (2023) as Judge
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Miss Charlotte Plummer
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Isobel Francis
- ITV Playhouse (1967) as Heather Massie
- Theatre 625 (1964)
- Peep Show (2003) as Pam Corrigan