# Ella Scott Lynch

Ella Scott Lynch is an Australian actress. Her notable roles include as lawyer Erin O'Shaughnessy in Crownies and its sequel Janet King, Shirley Ryan in the series Love Child, and Melbourne gangland barrister Nicola Gobbo in the Channel Nine mini-series Informer 3838.

## Early life

Ella Scott Lynch attended St Catherine's School, Waverley, NSW. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.

## Career

In 2005, she was cast in the soap opera Home and Away in the role of Hayley Lawson, previously played by Bec Cartwright, which she played until the end of that year.
In 2008 Lynch was cast as a regular in All Saints. Her character, nurse Claire Anderson, replaced Jolene Anderson's character Erika. Coincidentally, Kip Gamblin, who played Hayley's love interest Scott Hunter in Home and Away, also joined All Saints at that point.
In 2020 she appeared in Informer 3838 as the titular character, Melbourne gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo. The mini-series was inspired by the real-life career of Gobbo, who was recruited by Victoria Police in the 1990s as an informer on crime figures such as drug kingpin Tony Mokbel.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Shine | Jessica | |
| 2006 | Emulsion | | |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Girl at Fair | Scene cut |
| 2008 | Monkey Puzzle | Pippa | |
| 2008 | Rope Burn | Bella | Short |
| 2012 | Inhuman Resources | Female Secretary | |
| 2013 | Fruit | Isobel | Short |
| 2018 | Enter the Wild | Pippa | |
| 2018 | Pimped | Sarah Montrose/Rachael Montrose | |
| 2019 | Standing Up for Sunny | Felicity | |
| 2023 | The Trial | Joan | Short |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1985 | Winners | Doyle Family Member | Episode: "Top Kid" |
| 2005 | Home and Away | Hayley Lawson | Regular role (Season 18) |
| 2005 | All Saints | Shauna Lapin | Episode: "New Beginnings" |
| 2006 | The Silence | Lilya | TV film |
| 2008 | Emerald Falls | Blossom Piggot | TV film |
| 2008–09 | All Saints | Claire Anderson | Main role (series 11–12) |
| 2011 | City Homicide | Narelle O'Brien | Episode: "No Greater Honour: Tangled Web" |
| 2011 | Crownies | Erin O'Shaughnessy | Main role |
| 2012 | Underbelly: Badness | Camille Alavoine | Main role |
| 2013 | Mr & Mrs Murder | Emily Gorman | Episode: "Keeping Up Appearances" |
| 2013 | Serangoon Road | Angelica Warnock | Episodes: "My Girl", "1.8", "1.9" |
| 2014 | Janet King | Erin O'Shaughnessy | Main role (series 1) |
| 2014–2016 | Love Child | Shirley Ryan | Main role (series 1–3) |
| 2015 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Dr. Karen Ward | Episode: "Spiral" |
| 2015 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Angela Lombard | Episode: "Game, Set & Murder" |
| 2016 | The Code | Meg Flynn | Main role (series 2) |
| 2016 | Brock | Beverly Brock | TV miniseries |
| 2017 | Newton's Law | Lana Devries | Episode: "Control Theory" |
| 2017, 19 | Doctor Doctor | Celia | Episodes: "Both Sides Now" & "A House Divided" |
| 2018 | Underbelly Files: Chopper | Margaret | Episodes: "Tell Them Lucifer Was Here", "Infiltration" |
| 2019-2022 | Upright | Suzie Flynn | 11 episodes |
| 2020 | Informer 3838 | Nicola Gobbo | 2 episodes |
| 2021 | Amazing Grace | Christina | 4 episodes |
| 2023 | While the Men are Away | Rita | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Jones Family Christmas | Christina Jones | TV Movie |
| 2025 | Black Snow | Nina Hirsch | Series 2 |

## Theatre

| Year | Name | Role | Director | Theatre | Notes |
| 2006 | Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset | Hope | Leland Kean | SBW Stables Theatre | next to Susan Prior & Billie Rose Prichard |
| 2007 | Capture the Flag | Mathilde | Toby Schmitz | The Old Fitzroy, Sydney | next to Andrew Gee, Robin Goldsworthy & Sam North |