Lyn Collingwood

Lyn Collingwood (born 6 September 1936 in Sydney, Australia),

After graduating from university, Collingwood worked as an English, drama and history teacher for seven years and as a social worker. She has since stated that she has no intention of returning to Home and Away, feeling she is now too old to do so. G.P. ...Maybe This Time (1980), opposite Bill Hunter and Judy Morris, TV movie Chase Through the Night (1983), alongside Nicole Kidman and John Jarratt and A Test of Love (1984), opposite Angela Punch McGregor. Further credits include 1985 family TV film Archer’s Adventure, once again with Nicole Kidman, and later, a small role in 2009 film The Makeover, opposite her former Home and Away cast mate Martin Dingle-Wall. In 2013, she appeared in short film Worm.

Publications and other works Collingwood has also worked in research and was an editor of The Australian Encyclopaedia, as well as a sole updater of the 21st Century Junior World Encyclopedia and the 30-volume Everyman's New Age Encyclopedia. She was also a project developer on the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia. Additionally, she worked as a book editor, primarily for publisher Hale & Iremonger, compiling their annual An Australian Woman's Diary.

Collingwood is also a historian and writer and member of the Glebe Society. In 2017, she launched a website detailing the history of Sydney's New Theatre.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1963 It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain Short film1980 Palm Beach Mrs. Adams Feature film 1979 The Sea Mafanwy Price Nimrod Theatre, Sydney 1993 Cloud 9 2016 Marat/Sade Madame Coulmier New Theatre, Sydney 2020 Bleak House Director Toxteth Hotel, Sydney with Players in the Pub 2025 Lady Charing is Cross Director The Harold, Sydney with Players in the Pub