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
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
! Ref.
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| 1963
| It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain
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| Short film
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| rowspan="2"|1980
| Palm Beach
| Mrs. Adams
| Feature film
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| 1979 || The Sea || Mafanwy Price || Nimrod Theatre, Sydney ||
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| rowspan="2"|1993 || Cloud 9 || ||
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| 2016 || Marat/Sade || Madame Coulmier || New Theatre, Sydney ||
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| 2020 || Bleak House || Director || Toxteth Hotel, Sydney with Players in the Pub ||
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| 2025 || Lady Charing is Cross || Director || The Harold, Sydney with Players in the Pub ||