Lynn Rainbow

Born
Lynn Carol Rainbow Reid

(1942-09-19) 19 September 1942
Australia
Other namesLynne Rainbow
EducationAscham School, The University of Paris, Dante Alighieri
OccupationActress
Known forNumber 96 (TV series and film version)
SpouseTom Oliver
Parent
  • Alfred Rainbow (father)
FamilySir Benjamin Fuller (grandfather)

Lynn Carol Rainbow-Reid AM (born 19 September 1942) credited also as Lynne Rainbow, is an Australian-based former theatre and television actor and voice artist, who was educated at Ascham School, The Sorbonne and Dante Alighieri in Italy. Lynn was the daughter of Judge Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur. During the 1970s she was married to actor Tom Oliver.

She received the Order of Australia AM, in the Queen's Birthday honours in 2016,for service to culture and the arts.

Actress

She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on Australian television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police. She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series The Group.

From March 1972 played the original regular character of chemist Sonia Freeman in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy television soap opera Number 96. She stayed in the role until 1973 during which time Sonia engaged in an inter-racial kiss, lost her husband in a car accident, and was targeted by a woman planning to send her mad.

Rainbow reprised the role of Sonia Freeman in the feature film version of the serial, Number 96, in 1974. In the film, a newly married Sonia returns to Number 96 but again worries she is losing her mind. Rainbow shot all her scenes for the film in a single day, before rushing off to give a theatre performance as Elvira in Blithe Spirit that night.

After Number 96 Rainbow continued to make guest starring appearances in Australian television drama series, had a role in miniseries Against the Wind (1978), took a regular role in soap opera The Young Doctors, guest starred in six episodes of A Country Practice, and appeared in an early episode of Home and Away.

Filmography (selected)

Title Year Role
Blandings Castle (TV series)1967Aggie
Room at the Bottom (TV series)1967Wendy
Misleading Cases1968Felicity Haddock
Homicide (TV series)1969-19713 roles
  • Pam Gibson
  • Anna Leurini
  • Lucy Le Marc
The Group19711 episode
Division 41970-19723 roles
  • Christine Hassett
  • Barbie Ryan
  • Jennie West
Number 96 (TV series)1972-1973Sonia Freeman (53 episodes)
Number 961974Sonia Hunter
Out of Love (TV series)1974unknown 1 episode
Matlock Police (TV series)1971/19742 roles: Jan/Wilma Grimes
Kings Men (TV series)19761 episode
Against the Wind (TV mini-series)1978Mrs. Louisa Wiltshire
Cop Shop (TV series)1978/19792 roles Gloria Matthews/Anne Mitchell
The Young Doctors (TV series)1980June Holland
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four1983Voice
A Country Practice (TV series)1982-19846 episodes Margaret Skilton/Mrs. Quinn/Susan Moore
Nicholas Nickleby (TV movie)1985Voice
Captain James Cook (TV mini-series)19881 episode
Home and Away (TV series) 1988-19912 roles Neighbour/Heather Davidson credited here as Lynne Rainbow
You and Me and Uncle Bob1993Miss. Gibbs
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