Lynn Farleigh
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!
Acting
TV
Sherlock
as Professor Cairns
2010
Movie
The Flash
as Judge
2023
Movie
Watership Down
as Cat (voice)
1978
TV
Pride and Prejudice
as Mrs Phillips
1995
TV
Pride and Prejudice
as Mrs. Phillips
1995
Movie
Miss Potter
as Lady Sybil
2006
TV
Peep Show
as Pam Corrigan
2003
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Sonia Madrigal
1997
TV
Vera
as Valerie Furlow
2011
Movie
FairyTale: A True Story
as Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
1997
Movie
From Time to Time
as Gypsy
2009
TV
Silent Witness
as Ann Cunningham
1996
TV
Grace
as Alma Starr
2021
TV
The Bill
1984
TV
Bad Girls
as Mrs Williams
1999
TV
Heartbeat
as Mary Radcliffe
1992
TV
Heartbeat
as Joan Dyson
1992
TV
Bergerac
as Joan Grant
1981
TV
The Ice House
as Mrs. Thompson
1997
TV
He Knew He Was Right
as Mrs Outhouse
2004
Movie
Voices
as The Mother
1973
TV
Play for Today
1970
TV
Fall of Eagles
as Krupskaya
1974
TV
Peak Practice
as Moira Pearce
1993