
Lynn Farleigh
Department: 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!
Known For

Lovers of Their Time
1982

The Flash
2023

Deathday
1971

3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969

Voices
1973

The Rivals
1970

Daylight Robbery
1986

God's Chosen Car Park
1986

A Man for Loving
1970

Suffer The Little Children
1994

A Ferry Ride Away
1981

The Hallelujah Handshake
1970

Coming Through
1985

Waving at Trains
2009

A Walk in the Forest
1980

All's Well That Ends Well
1968

Tales from Hollywood
1992

From Time to Time
2009

Miss Potter
2006

Watership Down
1978

Fighting Back
1986

FairyTale: A True Story
1997

Tonight the World
2019

Antony & Cleopatra
1981

Heartland
1989

Scenes from Family Life
1969

Border
1988

Fothergill
1981

Clapperclaw
1981

The Workshop
1982

Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010

Midsomer Murders
1997

Wycliffe
1994

Affairs of the Heart
1983

Bergerac
1981

The Bill
1984

Z-Cars
1962

Pride and Prejudice
1995

Silent Witness
1996

Heartbeat
1992

Pride and Prejudice
1995

The Word
1978

Play for Today
1970

Fall of Eagles
1974

The Guardians
1971

Sherlock
2010

Bad Girls
1999

Peep Show
2003

Peak Practice
1993

Justice
1971

Vera
2011

He Knew He Was Right
2004

The Ice House
1997

Bill Brand
1976

Finney
1994

Public Eye
1965

Heartbeat
1992

Out
1978

Attachments
2000

Playhouse
1974

Playhouse
1974

Performance
1991

Playhouse
1974

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Grace
2021

Scorpion Tales
1978

Theatre 625
1964

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977

Z-Cars
1962

Fall of Eagles
1974

Out of the Unknown
1965

Wish Me Luck
1988

Love and Marriage
1984

Love and Marriage
1984

ITV Playhouse
1967