Lyn Collingwood

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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.

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]

• Lyn Collingwood at IMDb
• Lyn Collingwood biography, Home and Away, Network Seven.

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