Lynn Farleigh
Known for: Acting
Born: May 3, 1942
Place of birth: Bristol, England
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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Filmography
32 movies · 55 TV shows, newest first
6.6
The Flash
2023
6.8
Grace
2021
NR
Tonight the World
2019
7.4
Vera
2011
10.0
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
2010
8.5
Sherlock
2010
6.3
From Time to Time
2009NR
Waving at Trains
2009
6.7
Miss Potter
2006
7.6
He Knew He Was Right
2004
8.0
Peep Show
20035.8
Attachments
2000
7.6
Bad Girls
1999
6.4
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
6.1
The Ice House
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
7.6
Silent Witness
1996
8.2
Pride and Prejudice
1995
8.0
Finney
1994
NR
Suffer The Little Children
1994NR
Stages
1994
6.8
Wycliffe
1994
6.5
Peak Practice
1993
3.0
Tales from Hollywood
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
6.3
Performance
1991
6.5
Heartland
1989
7.0
Border
1988
6.0
The Play on One
1988
7.1
Wish Me Luck
1988NR
God's Chosen Car Park
1986
10.0
Fighting Back
1986
NR
Daylight Robbery
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
4.7
Coming Through
1985
6.8
The Bill
1984NR
Waving to a Train
19849.0
Love and Marriage
1984NR
The Hard Word
1983NR
Claire
1982
NR
Lovers of Their Time
19827.0
All for Love
1982
NR
The Workshop
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
7.0
Bergerac
1981NR
A Ferry Ride Away
1981
7.3
Antony & Cleopatra
1981NR
Clapperclaw
1981
NR
Fothergill
1981
NR
A Walk in the Forest
1980NR
Sweet Nothings
1980
8.0
Spooner's Patch
1979
4.8
The Word
1978
7.2
Watership Down
1978
7.8
Out
1978
7.3
Scorpion Tales
1978NR
Cottage to Let
1977
6.5
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977NR
Romance
1977NR
The Velvet Glove
1977
7.3
Bill Brand
19768.0
Cakes and Ale
1976
7.0
Affairs of the Heart
1974
7.0
Fall of Eagles
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974
5.4
Voices
1973
6.3
New Scotland Yard
1972
7.3
Justice
1971
8.0
Eyeless in Gaza
1971
6.0
The Guardians
1971
NR
Deathday
1971
7.9
The Hallelujah Handshake
1970
6.6
Play for Today
19708.0
The Rivals
1970NR
A Man for Loving
1970
8.0
Scenes from Family Life
1969NR
Plays of Today
1969
5.0
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969NR
W. Somerset Maugham
196910.0
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
7.1
Out of the Unknown
1965
8.2
Public Eye
1965
7.2
Theatre 625
1964
7.8
Steptoe and Son
1962
7.3
Z-Cars
1962