Factory Birds
The Fair Maid of the West
The Family Reunion
Lynn Farleigh
George Farquhar
David Farr
Farrah
Nicholas Farrell
Mia Farrow
Fashion
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Faust
Ray Fearon
Michael Feast
Jules Feiffer
Emma Fielding
Joseph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Peter Flannery
James Fleet
Susan Fleetwood
John Fletcher
Flight
The Fool
Footfalls
John Ford
Oliver Ford Davies
The Forest
Emilia Fox
Philip Franks
Paul Freeman
Geoffrey Freshwater
Max Frisch
Frozen Assets
Christopher Fry
Athol Fugard
At the beginning of her career Lynn Farleigh appeared in repertory at Salisbury and Canterbury, and toured with Anna Neagle. She was in James Saunders's Triangle at the Close Theatre, Glasgow (1965), and played a telephone receptionist in twenty episodes of Z Cars (BBC).
She joined the RSC in 1966, and during that first year toured with Theatregoround (John Barton's The Battle of Agincourt) and played Castiza in Trevor Nunn's production of The Revenger's Tragedy (RST). Peter Hall cast her in the pivotal role of Ruth for the New York transfer of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1967). At the Aldwych in 1968 she succeeded Estelle Kohler as Helena in All's Well That Ends Well and Elizabeth Spriggs as Portia in Julius Caesar (both Barton), and played Amanda opposite her first husband Michael Jayston in The Relapse (Nunn). She co-starred in Peter Hall's film Three Into Two Won't Go (1969).
Her subsequent RSC work has been separated by long intervals: Monique in Marguerite Duras's Suzanna Andler (Howard Sackler, Aldwych, 1973); Mrs Forsythe in Stephen Poliakoff's Shout Across the River (Bill Alexander, Warehouse, 1978); Jane in Howard Barker's The Hang of the Gaol (Alexander, Warehouse, 1978-79); Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (Barry Kyle) and Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Adrian Noble, Small-scale Tour, 1984); Agatha in The Family Reunion (Noble, Swan, 1999, Pit, 2000, New York, 2000); and Elizabeth in The Prince of Homburg (Neil Bartlett, Swan and Lyric Hammersmith, 2002).
Theatre work elsewhere includes: Brand (Christopher Morahan, NT Olivier, 1978); Simon Gray's Close of Play (Harold Pinter, NT Lyttelton, 1979); Kate in All My Sons (Gregory Hersov, Royal Exchange Manchester, 1988); Peter Nichols's Forget Me Not Lane (Greenwich Theatre, 1990); Black Angel (Rob Mulholland, King's Head, 1990); Coriolanus (ESC, Tour, 1990); Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Bogdanov, ESC, Tour and Aldwych, 1991); the women in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence (Di Trevis, NT Lyttelton, 1993); Machinal (Stephen Daldry, NT Lyttelton, 1993); Mrs Gascoigne in D.H. Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law (Trevis, Theatr Clwyd, 1995); Margaret in The Wax King, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3 (Bruce Wall, London Shakespeare Workout Prison Project, Pentonville Prison chapel, 2003); and Bernarda in Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (Auriol Smith, Orange Tree, 2003).
If her name is not better known it is because of a relatively quiet screen career: The Guardians (TV, 1971); Voices (Kevin Billington, 1973); The Fall of Eagles (episode 'Absolute Beginners' written by Trevor Griffiths, BBC, 1974); Cakes and Ale (BBC, 1975); High Noon (TV, 1977); Out (TV, 1978); The Word (TV, 1978); Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra (BBC, 1981); Coming Through (TV, 1985); Lovers of Their Time (Robert Knights, TV, 1986); Wish Me Luck (TV, 1988); Heartland (TV, 1989); Helene Weigel in Tales from Hollywood (Howard Davies, TV, 1992); Finney (ITV, 1994); Castles (TV, 1995); Mrs Phillips in Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995); Fairytale: a True Story (1997); The Ice House (BBC, 1997); Trial By Fire (Patrick Lau, ITV, 1999); and Bad Girls (ITV, 2003).
Education: Guildhall School of Music and Drama
RSC: Joined 1966
Seasons: 1966 (Theatregoround); 1966 (Strat.); 1967 (New York); 1968/69 (Lond.); 1973 (Lond.); 1978/79 (Lond.); 1984 (Small-scale Tour); 1999 (Strat.)-99/00 (Lond.); 2002 (Strat.)-02 (Lond.)
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