British actress
Lynn Farleigh |
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Born | Marilyn J. Farleigh (1942-05-03) 3 May 1942 (age 81)
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Alma mater |
Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
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Occupation | Actress |
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Years active | 1962–present |
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Spouses |
(
m. 1965;
div. 1970)
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Children | 2 |
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Marilyn J. "Lynn" Farleigh (born 3 May 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen.
Early life
Farleigh was born in
Bath,
Somerset on 3 May 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.
[1]
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.
[2] 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.
[3]
Her first London performance came in January 1968 as Helena in the RSC revival of
All's Well That Ends Well.
[4] In the same
Aldwych Theatre season she also played Amanda in
The Relapse, August 1968, and Portia in
Julius Caesar, November 1968.
[5]
[6]
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).
[4]
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 the
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 (English 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)
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- Enid in Salonika by
Louise Page (
West Yorkshire Playhouse, January 2008)
[2]
Television and film
Although primarily a theatre actress, Lynn Farleigh is probably widest known for playing Helen Wycliffe in
Wycliffe from 1996 to 1998, 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.
[7]
[8]
Her other TV appearances since 1964 include:
The Rivals,
Bergerac, Eyeless in Gaza,
Bill Brand,
Steptoe and Son (1974), Murder Most English,
Z-Cars in which she played Ann Fazakerley, the 1978 miniseries
The Word, the drama series
Out and
Bad Girls.
[9] She also appeared in the films
Three into Two Won't Go (1969) and
Voices (1973) and provided the voice of the cat in the animated film of
Watership Down (1978).
[7]
She portrayed Mrs Bennet's sister, Mrs Phillips, in the
1995 BBC version of
Pride and Prejudice. In 2013 and 2014, she played
Nora White in
EastEnders.
[10]
In 2021 Lynn Farleigh contributed to, and participated in, a
YouTube documentary tribute to
Alfred Burke entitled Alfred Burke is Frank Marker.
[11]
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