She has appeared in television and film roles, as well as worked in theatre as an actress and director, she is best known for her role in the TV series Home and Away as sticky beak comic character Colleen Smart Stewart, where she became well known for her trademark catchphrase "Yoo Hoo, It's Only Me"[1]
Biography
Early years and career
Collingwood was born in Sydney, New South Wales, she attended the University of Sydney 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 the early 1960s.
Acting career
Collingwood appeared in a film short in the early 1960s, 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 did however make a return to the series on 27 November 2012, before departing again in 2013.[2][3]
Lynn has had guest roles in numerous other TV serials including E Street, G.P. and All Saints.
Publications and Other works
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.
She is a historian and writer and member of the Glebe Society.[4]
She wrote a boo detailing the suburb she grew up titled [Dover Heights: Roc and Sand The Couldn't Sell [1]
False obituary
In 2025, a death hoax rumour started circulating on Facebook, stating that Collingwood apparently died after a long illness, she later addressed the rumour to New Idea magazine. however stated she had no interest in returning to Home and Away reprising her role as Colleen Smart[1]
↑ Collingwood departed the series during the 25th season in 2012, but did return in a guest role towards the end of the season, and remained until the beginning of the 26th season in 2013.
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