Television and film

Lynn Farleigh is perhaps best known for playing: Helen Wycliffe in Wycliffe

Wycliffe (TV series)

Wycliffe is a British TV series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe . It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a...

; Krupskaya opposite Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE is an English film, television and stage actor, who has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century...

's Lenin in the historical BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 drama Fall of Eagles

Fall of Eagles

Fall of Eagles is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series was created by John Elliot and produced by Stuart Burge....

; and the glamorous Vivien Ashton (codename Solange) in the second series of the LWT secret agent series Wish Me Luck

Wish Me Luck

Wish Me Luck is a British television drama about the exploits of British women undercover agents during the Second World War. The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1987 and 1989 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and...

broadcast in 1989.

Some of her other screen appearances since 1964 include: The Rivals

The Rivals

The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :...

, Eyeless in Gaza

Eyeless in Gaza

Eyeless in Gaza is a bestselling novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1936. The title originates from a phrase in John Milton's Samson Agonistes:The chapters of the book are not ordered chronologically...

, Bill Brand, Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about two rag and bone men living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old...

, Murder Most English, Z-Cars

Z-Cars

Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...

in which she played Ann Fazakerley, the 1978 drama series Out

Out (miniseries)

Out is a British television crime drama written by Trevor Preston. It was produced by Thames Television in 1978.In the weeks prior to its broadcast on Monday evenings, brief clips of the programme were shown to arouse viewer interest in which a character provided only the cryptic information that...

, the 1978 film Watership Down

Watership Down (film)

Watership Down is a 1978 English adventure drama animated film written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the book by Richard Adams. It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions...

and Bad Girls

Bad Girls (TV series)

Bad Girls is an award-winning British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1999 to 2006. It is produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road...

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She very memorably portrayed Mrs. Bennett's sister, "Mrs. Phillips", in the 1995 BBC version of "Pride and Prejudice." She appears in scenes set at her own home with Lizzy and Mr. Collins, playing cards and later at Mrs. Bennett's sickbed in episode 5, consoling her sister by telling her more awful things about the cad, "Mr. Wickham" who has despoiled Lizzy's sister, "Lydia." Her best lines are "Oh, MISTER COLLINS!" when he partners her in a whist game and plays badly, and "Debaucheries and Seductions! Why there's scarcely a tradesman's daughter he has not meddled with!" (referring to "George Wickam.")
As "Helen Wycliffe" in the Inspector Wycliffe detective series she is perfect in the role of patient, supportive wife of the moody detective played by Jack Shepard. But she finally does her own star-turn in the fifth season in which she blows her top when told that, thanks to another murder in the backwaters of Cornwall, he will not accompany her on a vacation in Paris.

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