Lyn Collingwood is an Australian actress. Collingwood was cast as Colleen Smart

Colleen Smart

Colleen Smart is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Lyn Collingwood. The character debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 7 March 1988. She was introduced as a recurring character by producer Alan Bateman. She served as comic relief...

 on Home and Away

Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

and was recurring character in 1988–1989, and returned in 1997 for one episode and then returned in 1999 as regular character.

Collingwood has worked as a social worker and an English, drama and history teacher. She has also worked in research and as an editor of The Australian Encyclopaedia, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Australia and The New Age Encyclopaedia. http://www.seven.com.au/homeandaway/meetthecast_lyn-collingwood

Filmography

• 1983: Scarface
  Scarface (1983 film)
  Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and starring Al Pacino as Tony Montana...
  
  as Gina Gonaz
• 1988–1989 1997 1999–present: Home and Away
  Home and Away
  Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
  
  as Colleen Smart
• 1999: All Saints
  All Saints (TV series)
  All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...
  
  as Laraine Parkes
• 1997: Murder Call
  Murder Call
  Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...
  
  as Mother Agnes
• 1987–1990: A Country Practice
  A Country Practice
  A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
  
  as Jean Quigley/June Nunn