# Judy Lynne

Judy Lynne, credited also as Judy Lind is an American-born Australian former actress.

## Early life

Lynne was born in Gary, Indiana, U.S. She trained at Northwestern University, Illinois from 1961 to 1965, studying a Bachelor of Arts majoring in drama (film, tv and theatre production) and minoring in journalism. She moved to Australia in 1971.

## Career
### Acting

From 1971, Lynne worked in Sydney, as a journalist and television reporter for A Current Affair, and as a Nine News Sydney weather presenter, while taking on television guest roles – before eventually turning to acting full time.
Lynne has had roles in numerous TV serials including Number 96 (1972), Spyforce (1972), Ryan (1973), Boney (1973) and Alvin Purple (1976). She is best known however, for her role in television serial The Young Doctors as Dr. Susan Richards, from 1977 to 1980.
Lynne also worked in theatre, and briefly as wardrobe mistress.
She left her television career in 1983, to become a commercial hot air balloon pilot, although she returned for an episode of Return to Eden in 1986.

### Hot air ballooning

In 1975, as a journalist, Lynne interviewed a hot air balloonist, who was one of only four in Australia at the time. This piqued her interest in the sport, leading her to become a pilot herself. In 1980, she formed a business partnership with world champion balloonist, Peter Vizzard, starting the company, Balloon Aloft Australia in the Hunter Valley, operating commercial passenger rides, using them for advertising, and staging balloon festivals.
Lynne won the National Hot Air Balloon Championships in 1985 and went on to represent Australia in the 1985 World Hot Air Ballooning Championships in Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S. the same year, competing against Vizzard. She retired from commercial ballooning in 2007.

## Personal life

Since retiring, Lynne lives six months of the year in Australia, and the other six in Europe, owning a boat on the canals in France.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1974 | Between Wars | Woman Officer | Feature film |
| 1974 | The Violins of Saint-Jacques | Berthe | TV movie |
| 1978 | Gone to Ground | Kathleen | TV movie |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| | A Current Affair | Reporter | TV series |
| 1972 | Number 96 | Gloria Gould | TV series |
| 1972 | Spyforce | Mission Sister | TV series, season 1, episode 37: "The Mission" |
| 1973 | Boney | Carol Lund | TV series, season 2, episode 6: "Boney and the Kelly Gang" |
| 1973 | Ryan | Barbara | TV series, season 1, episode 26: "Giant, Giant Had a Great Fall" |
| 1974 | Silent Number | Tessie / Cecelia | TV series, season 1, 2 episodes |
| 1975 | Scattergood: Friend of All | | TV series, season 1, episode 3: "The Great Egg Cosy Disaster" |
| 1975 | Shannon's Mob | Sophie Hochman | TV series, season 1, episode 4: "There Was a Man" |
| 1975 | The Norman Gunston Show | The Checkout Chicks | TV series, season 2, 5 episodes |
| 1976 | Nine News Sydney | Weather Reporter | TV series |
| 1976 | Alvin Purple | Meryl Sugars | TV series, season 1, episode 10: "Footy Widow" |
| 1976 | The Lively Arts | | TV documentary series, episode: "In Performance: The Violins of Saint-Jacques" |
| 1977–1979 | The Young Doctors | Dr. Susan Richards | TV series, 703 episodes |
| 1978–1983 | The Mike Walsh Show | Guest | TV series |
| 1986 | Return to Eden | Nurse | TV series, season 1, episode 5: "Knife Fight" |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1968 | The Royal Hunt of the Sun | Cello | Playhouse Theatre, Hobart with Hobart Repertory Theatre Society |
| 1978 | Harvey | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney |