Lynn Farleigh

Lynn Farleigh (born 3 May 1942, Bristol) is an English actress of stage and screen. She is the daughter of Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark).

She was educated at the independent Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She is married to the actor John Woodvine. Her previous husbands include actors Michael Jayston and David Yip.

Career

She made her first professional appearance in May 1962 in a production of "Under Milk Wood" at the Salisbury Playhouse, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in October 1966, playing Castiza in "The Revenger's Tragedy" at Stratford upon Avon. She made her New York debut with the RSC in April 1967 at the Music Box Theatre, playing Ruth in a production of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming".

Her first London performance came in January 1968 as Helena in the RSC revival of "All's Well That Ends Well". In the same Aldwych Theatre season she also played Amanda in "The Relapse", August 1968, and Portia in "Julius Caesar". November 1968.

In July 1969 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs she appeared in the Peter Tegel double-bill as the Biology Mistress in "Blim at School" and Anna in "Poet of the Anemones"; and in the following year played Simone in "The Friends", written and directed by Arnold Wesker (Round House, March 1970); and Beatrice Justine in "Exiles" by James Joyce, directed by Harold Pinter (Mermaid Theatre, November 1970).

Subsequent theatre performances include:
*Monique Combes in "Suzanna Andler" by Marguerite Duras (Aldwych, March 1973)
*Anne in "Ashes" by David Rudkin (Open Space, January 1974)
*Jennifer Dubedat in "The Doctor's Dilemma" (Mermaid Theatre, April 1975)
*Beryl in "Sex and Kinship in a Savage Society" (Theatre Upstairs, July 1975)
*Charlotte in "A Room with a View", adapted from the novel by E M Forster (Prospect Theatre Company, Albery Theatre, November 1975)
*Viola in "Twelfth Night" (St George's Islington, April 1976)
*Lady Anne in "Richard III" (St George's Islington, July 1976)
*Anwar in "The Ascent of Mount Fuji" (Hampstead Theatre, June 1977)
*Elizabeth in "Sovereignty Under Elizabeth" (Almost Free, December 1977)
*Agnes in "Brand", (National Theatre Olivier, April 1978)
*Mrs Forsythe in "Shout Across the River (RSC Donmar Warehouse, September 1978)
*Jane in "Hang of the Jail" (RSC Donmar Warehouse, December 1978)
*Margaret in "Close of Play" by Simon Gray (National Theatre Lyttelton, May 1979)
*Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible" (National Theatre Cottesloe, October 1980; and Comedy Theatre, March 1981)
*Simone in "The Workshop" (Oxford Playhouse/Hampstead Theatre, January 1981)
*Marian Wade in "Harvest" by Ellen Dryden (Ambassadors Theatre, October 1981)
*Mary Fearon in "The Man Who Fell in Love with His Wife" (Lyric Studio Hammersmith, February 1984)
*Mrs Alving in "Ghosts" (Shaw Theatre, May 1984)
*Hermione in "The Winter's Tale" (RSC Tour, Christ Church, London E1, December 1984)
*Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible" (RSC Tour, Christ Church, London E1, December 1984)
*Mary and Mary Magdalene in "The Mysteries: The Nativity; The Passion; and Doomsday" (National at the Lyceum Theatre, May 1985)
*Chorus in "Medea" (Lyric Hammersmith, May 1986)
*Dame Overdo in "Bartholomew Fair" (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, June 1987)
*Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, June 1987)
*Helga in "M Butterfly" (Shaftesbury Theatre, April 1989)
*Amy in "Forget-Me-Not Lane", by Peter Nichols (Greenwich Theatre, March 1990)
*Simone Engel in "Black Angel" (King's Head Theatre, July 1990)
*Hermiione in "The Winter's Tale" (English Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, April 1991)
*Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" (English Shakespeare Company, Royalty Theatre, November 1992)
*Juno in "The Tempest" (Englsh Shakespeare Company, Arts Threshold, November 1992)
*Mrs Gamsey in "Inadmissible Evidence" (National Theatre Lyttelton, June 1993)
*Stenographer, Nurse, Matron in "Machinal" by Lucy Treadwell (National Theatre Lyttelton, October 1993)
*Mrs Bunting in "The Lodger" by Patrick Prior from Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes (Theatre Royal Stratford East, October 1996)
*Agatha in "The Family Reunion" by T S Eliot (RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, June 1999; and Barbican The Pit, February 2000)
*Elizabeth in "The Prince of Homburg" by Heinrich von Kleist (Lyric Hammersmith, February 2002)
*Bernarda in "The House of Bernarda Alba" by Lorca (Orange Tree Theatre, March 2003)
*Phoebe Rice in "The Entertainer" by John Osborne (Nuffield Theatre Southampton, November 2004)
*Nella in "One Under" by Winsome Pinnock (Tricycle Theatre, February 2005)
*Moira Paterson/Princess Jill in "Pravda" by Howard Brenton and David Hare (Chichester Festival Theatre, September 2006)
*Amy Hillcrist in "The Skin Game" by John Galsworthy (Orange Tree Theatre, March 2007) [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/16330/the-skin-game]
*Enid in "Salonika" by Louise Page (West Yorkshire Playhouse, January 2008) [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/19660/salonika]

Television and film

Lynn Farleigh is perhaps best known for playing: Helen Wycliffe in "Wycliffe"; Krupskaya opposite Patrick Stewart's Lenin in the historical BBC drama "Fall of Eagles"; and the glamorous Vivien Ashton (codename Solange) in the second series of the LWT secret agent series "Wish Me Luck" broadcast in 1989.

Some of her other screen appearances since 1964 include: "The Rivals", "Eyeless in Gaza", "Bill Brand", "Z Cars" in which she played Ann Fazakerley, the 1978 drama series "Out", the 1978 film "Watership Down" and "Bad Girls".

References

*"Theatre Who's Who" 17th edition, Gale (1981) ISBN 0810302157
*"Theatre Record" and its annual Indexes

External links

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