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.
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.
[1][2] Lynn has had guest roles in numerous other TV serials including E Street, G.P.
[1] She is a historian and writer and member of the Glebe Society.
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