Lynsey Baxter trained in London at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).

Apart from her television and film career, she has also done good work on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company - as Judith in The Dance of Death, Phoebe in As You Like It (September 1977, Stratford), The Girl in The Devil's Disciple and Styopka in The Zycoys - and in many West End productions.

She has also worked for BBC Radio, including Abelard and Heloise (February 1999), a new translation by Ranjit Bolt of the medieval letters, better known through the 1988 movie Stealing Heaven.