Lynn Farleigh
Acting
Born: May 3, 1942 (age 84) · Bristol, England
Highest Rated
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
Sherlock
2010
The Flash
2023
Watership Down
1978
Pride and Prejudice
1995
Miss Potter
2006
Peep Show
2003
Midsomer Murders
1997
Vera
2011
FairyTale: A True Story
1997
From Time to Time
2009
Silent Witness
1996
Grace
2021
Photos (2)
Movies (25)
The Flash
Judge
Watership Down
Cat (voice)
Miss Potter
Lady Sybil
FairyTale: A True Story
Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher
From Time to Time
Gypsy
Heartland
Rachel
Deathday
Lydia Crosse
Tales from Hollywood
Helene Weigel
Clapperclaw
Lorna
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Janet
Coming Through
Lydia Lawrence
Voices
The Mother
The Workshop
Simone
Daylight Robbery
Helen
The Hallelujah Handshake
Anne
Antony & Cleopatra
Octavia
Suffer The Little Children
Solicitor
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
Pam Corrigan
Fighting Back
Barbara Merrick
Tonight the World
2019
Border
Mrs Fialova
Fothergill
Kate
A Walk in the Forest
Catherine Clements
Scenes from Family Life
Marie
Lovers of Their Time
Hilda Britt
TV Shows (50)
Midsomer Murders
Sonia Madrigal · 1 eps
Play for Today
1 eps
Silent Witness
Ann Cunningham · 2 eps
American Playhouse
Helene Weigel · 1 eps
Vera
Valerie Furlow · 1 eps
Sherlock
Professor Cairns · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Julia · 1 eps
Peak Practice
Moira Pearce · 1 eps
Heartbeat
Mary Radcliffe · 1 eps
Heartbeat
Joan Dyson · 1 eps
Grace
Alma Starr · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Miss Charlotte Plummer · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Isobel Francis · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Heather Massie · 1 eps
The Bill
1 eps
Z-Cars
2 eps
Z-Cars
Ann Fazakerley · 1 eps
Peep Show
Pam Corrigan · 1 eps
Bergerac
Joan Grant · 1 eps
Performance
Helene Weigel · 1 eps
Playhouse
Kate · 1 eps
Playhouse
Lorna · 1 eps
Playhouse
Simone · 1 eps
Theatre 625
1 eps
Bad Girls
Mrs Williams · 3 eps
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs Phillips · 2 eps
Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Phillips · 2 eps
Wycliffe
Helen Wycliffe · 11 eps
ScreenPlay
Helen · 1 eps
Out of the Unknown
Lydia Crosse · 1 eps
The Play on One
Rachel · 1 eps
New Scotland Yard
Sarah Belmont · 1 eps
Public Eye
Valerie Pratt · 1 eps
Justice
Muriel Parker · 1 eps
Fall of Eagles
Krupskaya · 2 eps
Fall of Eagles
Nadezhda Krupskaya · 1 eps
Steptoe and Son
Marcia Wrigley · 1 eps
Wish Me Luck
Vivien Ashton · 7 eps
Affairs of the Heart
Catherine Sloper · 1 eps
He Knew He Was Right
Mrs Outhouse · 2 eps
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Doreen Periam · 2 eps
The Word
Valerie Hughs · 4 eps
The Guardians
Eleanor Benedict · 13 eps
Spooner's Patch
Mrs Webster · 2 eps
The Ice House
Mrs. Thompson · 2 eps
Bill Brand
Miriam Brand · 7 eps
Out
Anne Ross · 4 eps
Scorpion Tales
Virginia Ward · 1 eps
Finney
Mary Finney · 6 eps
Eyeless in Gaza
Helen Amberley · 5 eps