# Lyn Collingwood

Lyn Collingwood (born 6 September 1936 in 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 1960s.

## Career

Collingwood worked in the theatre in the early 1960s 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.
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.
She is a historian and writer and member of the Glebe Society.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1963 | It Droppeth as the Gentle Rain | | Short film |
| 1980 | Palm Beach | Mrs. Adams | Feature film |
| 1980 | ...Maybe This Time | Myrtle | Feature film |
| 1982 | A Dangerous Summer | Woman in Van | Feature film |
| 1984 | Annie's Coming Out | Mrs. O'Farrell | Feature film |
| 1986 | Dead End Drive-In | Fay | Feature film |
| 1990 | Call Me Mr. Brown | Woman Caller at Phone Box | Feature film |
| 1994 | Cops and Robbers | Boss | Feature film |
| 1995 | From Sand to Celluloid: Round Up | Matron | Short film |
| 2009 | The Makeover | Gran on Beach | |
| 2013 | Worm | Aunty Beth | Short film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 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 |
| 1987, 1990 | A Country Practice | Jean Quigley | Season 10, episode 20 |
| 1988–1989, 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) |
| 1989 | E Street | Mrs. Wilson | Season 1, episode 1 |
| 1989 | E Street | 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: "Wages of Sin" |
| 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 |

## Theatre
### As actor

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | A Bunch of Ratbags | | The Australian Theatre, Sydney |
| 1979 | The Sea | Mafanwy Price | Nimrod Theatre, Sydney |
| 1980 | And I Still Call Home Australia | Stage Manager / Ronald MacDonald's Victim / Miss Fiske | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1981 | Flexitime | Beryl | Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 1981 | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | | Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 1982 | Amadeus | Teresa Salieri | Theatre Royal Sydney with STC |
| 1985 | Yobbo Nowt | Marie | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1987 | An Enemy of the People | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1990 | The Government Investigator | | Q Theatre, Penrith |
| 1992 | Traitors | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1992 | A Hard God | | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney |
| 1993 | The One Day of the Year | | Riverina Playhouse, Wagga Wagga |
| 1994 | The Family | | Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, Ensemble Theatre, Sydney with Queensland Theatre |
| 1996 | Kafka's Dick | | Melbourne Athenaeum |
| 1997 | The Season at Sarsaparilla | Girlie Pogson | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 1998 | Love for Love | | Sydney Opera House with STC |
| 2002 | Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde | | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2003 | The Killing of Sister George | June Buckeridge | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2016 | Marat/Sade | | New Theatre, Sydney |

### As director

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2002 | Stop Laughing, This is Serious - 70 Years of Review at the New | Director | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2002 | One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Director | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2004 | Hating Alison Ashley | Director | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2004 | A Christmas Carol | Adaptor / Director | New Theatre, Sydney |
| 2005 | Manly Mates | Director | New Theatre, Sydney |