Lynn Farleigh

Actor May 3 (age 84) Bristol, England 1962–2023 (61 year career)

6.7 avg rating

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…

Known For

Film

The Flash

Judge

Film

Watership Down

Cat (voice)

Film

Miss Potter

Lady Sybil

Film

FairyTale: A True Story

Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher

Film

From Time to Time

Gypsy

Film

Sherlock

Professor Cairns

Film

He Knew He Was Right

Mrs. Outhouse

Film

The Ice House

Mrs. Thompson

Filmography

Acting (78)

Movies (32)

The Flash

2023

as Judge

6.6

Tonight the World

2019

Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings

2010

10.0

Waving at Trains

2009

as Annabelle Warren

From Time to Time

as Gypsy

Miss Potter

as Lady Sybil

FairyTale: A True Story

1997

as Mrs. Thornton, the Teacher

6.4

Suffer The Little Children

1994

as Solicitor

Tales from Hollywood

as Helene Weigel

Heartland

as Rachel

Border

as Mrs Fialova

God's Chosen Car Park

1986

as Irene Box

Fighting Back

1986

as Barbara Merrick

Daylight Robbery

1986

as Helen

Coming Through

1985

as Lydia Lawrence

4.0

Lovers of Their Time

1982

as Hilda Britt

The Workshop

1982

as Simone

A Ferry Ride Away

1981

as Heather Massie

Antony & Cleopatra

1981

as Octavia

6.3

Clapperclaw

1981

as Lorna

Fothergill

1981

as Kate

A Walk in the Forest

1980

as Catherine Clements

Watership Down

as Cat (voice)

Voices

as The Mother

Deathday

as Lydia Crosse

The Hallelujah Handshake

as Anne

The Rivals

as Julia

A Man for Loving

as Isobel Francis

3 Into 2 Won't Go

1969

as Janet

4.6

Scenes from Family Life

1969

as Marie

All's Well That Ends Well

1968

as Helena

Waving to a Train

as Mother

Television (46)

Grace

as Alma Starr

Vera

as Valerie Furlow

Sherlock

as Professor Cairns

He Knew He Was Right

as Mrs. Outhouse

He Knew He Was Right

as Mrs Outhouse

Peep Show

as Pam Corrigan

Attachments

as Dr Heather Green

Bad Girls

as Mrs Williams

Midsomer Murders

as Sonia Madrigal

The Ice House

as Mrs. Thompson

Silent Witness

as Ann Cunningham

Pride and Prejudice

as Mrs. Phillips

Wycliffe

as Helen Wycliffe

Finney

as Mary Finney

Peak Practice

as Moira Pearce

Heartbeat

as Mary Radcliffe

Performance

as Helene Weigel

The Play on One

as Rachel

Wish Me Luck

as Vivien Ashton

The Bill

Love and Marriage

as Christine

Affairs of the Heart

1983

7.5

All for Love

1982

as Hilda Britt

Bergerac

as Joan Grant

Spooner's Patch

as Mrs Webster

Out

as Anne Ross

The Word

as Valerie Hughs

Scorpion Tales

as Virginia Ward

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

1977

as Doreen Periam

5.5

Romance

1977

as Heather

The Velvet Glove

1977

as Edith Cavell

Bill Brand

as Miriam Brand

Cakes and Ale

as Amy Driffield

Playhouse

as Kate

Fall of Eagles

as Krupskaya

Justice

as Muriel Parker

The Guardians

Play for Today

W. Somerset Maugham

as Doris Hanson

Plays of Today

1969

as Marie

ITV Playhouse

1967

as Miss Charlotte Plummer

7.0

BBC Play of the Month

as Julia

Public Eye

as Valerie Pratt

Out of the Unknown

as Lydia Crosse

Theatre 625

Z-Cars

as Ann Fazakerley