Lyn Collingwood

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

Biography
Collingwood was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in September 1936, and did not start a career in the arts until later in life, she previously had worked as a social worker and English, drama and history teacher.

She appeared in a few TV roles starting from the late 1970s, and was cast as gossip comic character Colleen Smart, (later Stewart), in a similar vein to soap opera gossips like A Country Practice character Esme Watson (Joyce Jacobs) and Neighbours Mrs. Mangel (Vivean Gray) and on soap opera Home and Away and was a recurring original character in 1988 to 1989. In 1997 she returned for a guest appearance, and then returned in 1999 as a regular character until leaving in May 2012, after playing the role of Colleen for 14 years, she made a brief guest return to the series on 27 November 2012.

Lynn has had roles in numerous serials such as 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.