
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!

The Flash
2023 · as Judge

Miss Potter
2006 · as Lady Sybil

Watership Down
1978 · as Cat (voice)

Heartland
1989 · as Rachel

From Time to Time
2009 · as Gypsy

FairyTale: A True Story
1997 · as Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher

Coming Through
1985 · as Lydia Lawrence

Clapperclaw
1981 · as Lorna

Deathday
1971 · as Lydia Crosse

Fighting Back
1986 · as Barbara Merrick

Waving at Trains
2009 · as Annabelle Warren

Suffer The Little Children
1994 · as Solicitor

Tales from Hollywood
1992 · as Helene Weigel

Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010 · as Pam Corrigan

Antony & Cleopatra
1981 · as Octavia

The Workshop
1982 · as Simone

Voices
1973 · as The Mother

God's Chosen Car Park
1986 · as Irene Box