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Lyn Collingwood

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Lyn Collingwood
Born (1936-09-06) 6 September 1936 (age 88)
OccupationActress
Years active1963, 1979–present
Known forColleen Smart in Home and Away (1988-1989, 1997, 1999-2012, 2013)

Lyn Collingwood (born 6 September 1936, Sydney), credited also as Lynn Collingwood, is an Australian actress, writer and historian.

Collingwood was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and started her early career as an English, drama and history teacher and a social worker, and didn't begin a career in the arts, until later in life, in the early 1960's.

Career

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Collingwood worked in the theatre in the early 1960's and appeared in a film short, before appearing in a few TV roles starting from the late 1970s, she became most known however when she was cast in serial Home and Away as gossip comic character Colleen Smart, (later Stewart), and was a recurring original character in 1988 to 1989. In 1997 she returned for a guest appearance, before returning again in 1999, this time as a regular character remaining a permanent member of the cast for the next 14 years until leaving in May 2012, she made a brief guest return to the series on 27 November 2012.[1][2]

Lynn has had guest roles in numerous other TV serials including E Street, G.P. and All Saints.

She has also worked in research and as an editor of The Australian Encyclopaedia, as well as The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Australia and The New Age Encyclopaedia. [1]

She is a historian and writer and member of the Glebe Society.[3]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
Film
1963 It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain Short
1980 Palm Beach Mrs. Adams
1980 ...Maybe This Time Myrtle
1982 A Dangerous Summer Woman in Van
1984 Annie's Coming Out Mrs. O'Farrell
1986 Dead End Drive-In Fay
1990 Call Me Mr. Brown Woman Caller at Phone Box
1994 Cops and Robbers Boss
1995 From Sand to Celluloid: Round Up Matron Short
2009 The Makeover Gran on Beach
2013 Worm Aunty Beth Short
Year Title Role Notes
Television
1979 Patrol Boat Swain's Wife Season 1, episode 6
1980 People Like Us Maisie Stanley TV movie
1981 Bellamy Mrs. Marks Season 1, episode 1
1982 Spring & Fall Sister Season 2, episode 2
1983 Chase Through the Night Mrs. Y. TV movie
1985 Possession Iris Dawson Season 1
1985 Archer Shoekeeper TV movie
1987 The Harp in the South Nursing Sister Miniseries (3 episodes)
1987 Rafferty's Rules Janine Graham Season 3, episode 4
1987, 1990 A Country Practice June Nunn Season 7, episode 42
Jean Quigley Season 10, episode 20
1988–89, 1997,
1999–2012,
2012–2013
Home and Away Colleen Smart Seasons 1–2 (recurring), Season 10 (guest)
Seasons 12–25 (regular),
Season 25–26 (guest)[a]
1989 E Street Mrs. Wilson Season 1, episode 1
Mrs. Jenkins Season 1, episode 50
1990 The Money or the Gun Season 2, episode 10
1991 G.P. Marge Slater Season 3, episode 6
1995 Spellbinder Nurse Season 1, episode 15
1997 Murder Call Mother Agnes Season 1, episode 12
1999 All Saints Laraine Parkes Season 2, episode 5
2002 Home and Away: Secrets and the City Colleen Smart Direct-to-video special
2016 A Shared House Helen Season 2, episode 1
2022 Remember My Name Grandma Doris Season 1, episode 3

Notes

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  1. ^ Collingwood departed the series during the 25th season in 2012, but did return in a guest role towards the end of the season, and remained until the beginning of the 26th season in 2013.

References

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  1. ^ Oram, James "Home and Away: Behind the Scenes p.8 publiashed 1989
  2. ^ Eames, Tom (7 May 2012). "'Home and Away': Colleen to leave soap". Digital Spy. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Lyn Collingwood on Glebe Society's 50th Birthday Festival".
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