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Lynn Rainbow is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School
Ascham School

Ascham School is an Independent school, non-denominational, Day school and Boarding School school for girls', located in Edgecliff, New South Wales, an Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, The Sorbonne
Sorbonne

The name Sorbonne is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions , but this is a recent usage, and "Sorbonne" has actually been used with different meanings over the centuries....
 and Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
 in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Lynn was the daughter of Judge
Judge

A judge, or arbiter of justice, is a lead official who presides over a court of law,which is operated by the local, state, and/or federal government....
 Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur.

She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 police dramas Homicide
Homicide (TV series)

Homicide was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network between 1964 and 1977.The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victoria police force and episodes revolved around the various cases the detectives are called upon to investigate....
, Division 4
Division 4

Division 4 was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes....
 and Matlock Police
Matlock Police

Matlock Police was an Australian Police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....
. She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series The Group
The Group (TV series)

The Group was a popular Australian situation comedy series produced by Cash Harmon Television for ATN7 in 1971.The situation involved five young flatmates - three men and two women - living together for financial and pragmatic reasons and regularly attempting to outwit their landlord who was convinced there were saucy goings-on in the f...
.

From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 television soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Number 96
Number 96 (TV series)

Number 96 was a revolutionary Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects....
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Lynn Rainbow is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-based theatre and television actor who was educated at Ascham School
Ascham School

Ascham School is an Independent school, non-denominational, Day school and Boarding School school for girls', located in Edgecliff, New South Wales, an Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....
, The Sorbonne
Sorbonne

The name Sorbonne is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France or one of its successor institutions , but this is a recent usage, and "Sorbonne" has actually been used with different meanings over the centuries....
 and Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri , commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florence poet of the Middle Ages. His Magnum opus, the Divine Comedy , is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature....
 in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. Lynn was the daughter of Judge
Judge

A judge, or arbiter of justice, is a lead official who presides over a court of law,which is operated by the local, state, and/or federal government....
 Alfred Rainbow and the granddaughter of Sir Benjamin Fuller a theatrical entrepreneur.

She became widely recognisable in the early 1970s on television, taking many guest roles in the Crawford Productions
Crawford Productions

Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation.The company generally had a reputation for higher quality productions than its nearest rival, the Reg Grundy Organisation....
 police dramas Homicide
Homicide (TV series)

Homicide was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network between 1964 and 1977.The series dealt with the homicide squad of the Victoria police force and episodes revolved around the various cases the detectives are called upon to investigate....
, Division 4
Division 4

Division 4 was an Australian police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 301 episodes....
 and Matlock Police
Matlock Police

Matlock Police was an Australian Police procedural television series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....
. She also appeared in an episode of popular situation comedy series The Group
The Group (TV series)

The Group was a popular Australian situation comedy series produced by Cash Harmon Television for ATN7 in 1971.The situation involved five young flatmates - three men and two women - living together for financial and pragmatic reasons and regularly attempting to outwit their landlord who was convinced there were saucy goings-on in the f...
.

From March 1972 played the original regular character of Sonia in the phenomenally successful sex-comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
 television soap opera
Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
 Number 96
Number 96 (TV series)

Number 96 was a revolutionary Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects....
. 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
Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a form of intimidation or psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory and perception....
. Rainbow reprised the role of Sonia in the feature film version of the serial filmed late 1973 and released in 1974, where 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
Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noel Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who is haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, following a s?ance held by the eccentric Mediumship and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati....
 that night.

During the 1970s she was married to fellow Number 96 actor Tom Oliver
Tom Oliver

----Tom Oliver is an England-born Australian television, film and theatre actor, best known today for playing the role of Lou Carpenter in the Australian soap opera Neighbours....
.

After Number 96 Rainbow continued to make guest starring appearances in Australian television drama series, had a role in miniseries Against the Wind
Against the Wind (TV series)

Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series.It is a historical drama portraying both the British Empire occupation of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia....
 (1978), took a regular role in soap opera The Young Doctors
The Young Doctors

The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff....
, guest starred in six episodes of A Country Practice
A Country Practice

A Country Practice was one of the longest-running Australian television drama series. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993....
, and appeared in an early episode of Home & Away.

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