Background
Farleigh was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire on 3 May 1942 to Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark).
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Lynn Farleigh
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Education
She attended the Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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 Royal Society of Chemistry 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 Royal Society of Chemistry 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.
Subsequent theatre performances include:
Lynn Farleigh is perhaps best known for playing Helen Wycliffe in Wycliffe, Krupskaya opposite Patrick Stewart"s Lenin in the historical British Broadcasting Corporation drama Fall of Eagles, and the glamorous Vivien Ashton (codename Solange) in the second series of the LWT secret agent series Wish Maine Luck broadcast in 1989. 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).
She portrayed Mrs Bennet"s sister, Mrs Phillips, in the 1995 British Broadcasting Corporation version of Pride and Prejudice. In 2013 and 2014, she played Nora White in EastEnders.
