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!
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9858 |
| Birthday | 1942-05-03 |
| Place of Birth | Bristol, England |
| Also Known As |
1982
Lovers of Their Time
0/0
A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.
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Lovers of Their Time
2023
The Flash
6.613/4958
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and th...
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The Flash
1971
Deathday
0/0
Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and...
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Deathday
1969
3 Into 2 Won't Go
5/9
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get aw...
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3 Into 2 Won't Go
1973
Voices
5.433/15
After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental hospital. After her release, her husband takes her...
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Voices
1970
The Rivals
8/2
The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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The Rivals
1986
Daylight Robbery
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Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimate...
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Daylight Robbery
1986
God's Chosen Car Park
0/0
Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an underground car...
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God's Chosen Car Park
1970
A Man for Loving
0/0
James Beal is an advertising executive in his fifties who still lives his itfe at a pace that leaves his friends exhausted. But the moment of truth oo...
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A Man for Loving
1994
Suffer The Little Children
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Deborah Hayes is charged with murdering her son Michael, aged 8 months. In the Police Interview Room, suffering from the immediate after-shock of the...
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Suffer The Little Children
1981
A Ferry Ride Away
0/0
Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some...
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A Ferry Ride Away
1970
The Hallelujah Handshake
7.857/7
Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
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The Hallelujah Handshake
1985
Coming Through
4.667/6
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about...
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Coming Through
2009
Waving at Trains
0/0
Some summer days last forever… A poignant short film starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite in one of his last film roles.
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Waving at Trains
1980
A Walk in the Forest
0/0
A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.
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A Walk in the Forest
1968
All's Well That Ends Well
10/1
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...
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All's Well That Ends Well
1992
Tales from Hollywood
3/3
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri...
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Tales from Hollywood
2009
From Time to Time
6.252/117
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an...
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From Time to Time
2006
Miss Potter
6.6/544
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
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Miss Potter
1978
Watership Down
7.2/699
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
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Watership Down
1986
Fighting Back
10/1
A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.
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Fighting Back
1997
FairyTale: A True Story
6.404/119
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the...
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FairyTale: A True Story
2019
Tonight the World
0/0
Tonight the World draws from a cross-section of dream diaries kept by Martin’s grandmother, Susi Stiassni, who fled the imminent Nazi occupation of Cz...
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Tonight the World
1981
Antony & Cleopatra
7.25/4
Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of...
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Antony & Cleopatra
1989
Heartland
6.5/2
This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they...
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Heartland
1969
Scenes from Family Life
8/1
The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.
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Scenes from Family Life
1988
Border
8/1
Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost su...
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Border
1981
Fothergill
0/0
John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...
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Fothergill
1981
Clapperclaw
0/0
VE Night, 1945. In a Yorkshire pub not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe 's ' All-Star' dance band is missing two members, the beer has...
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Clapperclaw
1982
The Workshop
0/0
It is 1945 - just a year since the allied troops entered Paris - and Simone arrives for her first day of work at M. Leon's tailoring workshop.
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The Workshop
2010
Peep Show: Seasonal Beatings
10/1
Mark has his family over to the flat for Christmas dinner, as well as Dobby, who he is finally going out with, except he hasn't told his parents yet.
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