Lynn Farleigh
| Lynn Farleigh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 December 1942 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Redland High School for Girls |
| Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | since 1962 (stage) since 1964 (screen) |
| Spouse(s) |
Michael Jayston (1965–70) (divorced) John Woodvine (?–present) |
| Children | Joe Turner and Matthew Turner (with Keith Turner) |
| Parent(s) | Joseph and Marjorie Farleigh |
Lynn Farleigh (born 3 December 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen.
Farleigh was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire on 3 December 1942 to Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark). She attended the Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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).
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