Amy Fleming was not going to have her baby in a hospital. She had told everyone so.
So when her labour started just as they pulled up to the church for Caleb and Cassandra’s wedding, she and Ty raced back to Heartland. Lou panicked and tried to reach the midwife. Tim, who had gone to the prenatal classes with Amy, tried to coach. Ty stayed beside his wife. And there, in the loft above the barn where the two of them lived, their daughter was born. “It’s a girl,” someone told her. Later, Ghost, the wild horse Georgie had let go, wandered back to the ranch as if he had come to meet the baby.
That was the Season 10 finale of Heartland, “Greater Expectations,” which aired on March 26, 2017. The baby was Lyndy Borden. Fans have been watching her grow up ever since, and so have the two little girls who play her.
Quick answer: Lyndy Borden is played by identical twins Ruby and Emmanuella Spencer. They were born in Calgary, and they have shared the role since they were babies. They are now 10.
A Name That Carries Two Goodbyes
On the night she was born, the family crowded into the loft to meet her. Someone said she was the spitting image of Marion as a newborn, and Ty told them that he and Amy had already chosen her middle name. It would be Marion, after Amy’s mother, the woman Amy lost in the very first episode.
Her first name waited until the Season 11 premiere, “Baby on Board,” in September 2017. That was when fans learned she was Lyndy Marion Borden, named after Amy’s grandmother. Lyndy Bartlett was Jack’s late wife. The Season 11 finale, “Naming Day,” then led the whole family up to her naming ceremony.
So the newest Bartlett-Fleming carries the two women the family misses most: Jack’s wife and Amy’s mother. For a show that has always been about the ones who came before, it was a lovely way to start a life.
Two Girls, One Lyndy
Ruby and Emmanuella, who goes by Emmy, have been part of the show for almost as long as they can remember. Amber Marshall told TV Insider in 2023 that the girls were six months old when they were cast. “I really do feel they are my family,” she said. “I’ve watched every stage they’ve had and watched them learn and develop.”
Their mom is Australian, so the girls hold dual citizenship, and they have an older sister, Isla, and a younger brother, Finn. When they were four, their family wrote a little behind-the-scenes note for CBC about how the job really works. The twins kept track of whose “turn” it was, and they usually swapped between set-ups, sometimes even between takes. “In fact, nearly all scenes that you see air on tv contain both Ruby and Emmanuella,” the family wrote. “Luckily they are identical!”
The same piece explained something fans had noticed for years. When Lyndy snuggles into Amy on screen, it isn’t scripted. The girls simply love Amber and go to her farm to see the animals. Asked her favourite thing about being on set, Ruby said riding the big horse and seeing “Mum Mum,” her name for Amber.
Growing Up in Front of Everyone
By eight, the girls had a very twin way of describing it. CBC asked them what it is like to see themselves on TV. “Kind of cool. It’s like a mirror,” Ruby said. Emmy topped her: “It’s like I’m seeing three.”
Even now, they can’t always tell. “I still can’t tell who is up there acting when I’m watching,” Ruby told TV Insider this spring. “Like, ‘Is that me or is that Emmy?'” They also once got recognised on a ski trip, helmets, goggles and snowsuits and all.
On screen, Lyndy grew into a real Fleming. In Season 16’s “Running Down a Dream,” she fell for barrel racing, and Grandpa Tim, never one to do anything halfway, showed up with a retired barrel horse named Willow. Willow went from a trot to a gallop, and a frightened Lyndy cried, “Mommy, make it stop!” Amy sent the horse back and had a quiet word with her dad about pressure. Tim apologised to his granddaughter and walked her around the arena himself, staying by her side the whole way.
The Little Girl Who Lost Her Dad
The hardest chapter came when Lyndy was still very small. Ty died at the start of Season 14, and the show jumped ahead a year to Amy raising their daughter on her own. We have written about what life on the ranch looked like after Ty. For Lyndy, he became the dad she misses in pieces, and the show has never let that go.
Off screen, the twins missed him too. “We were also friends with [Graham], so we were sad when he wasn’t on the show anymore,” Emmy said of Graham Wardle. Ruby added, simply: “We called Graham Papa.”
“I Don’t Like Secrets”
That loss is why Season 19 hit Lyndy so hard. Amy fell for neighbouring rancher Nathan Pryce, played by Spencer Lord, and tried to keep it quiet until she knew how to tell her daughter. In “Two Can Keep a Secret,” which aired on October 12, 2025, Lyndy saw them kissing. That night at bedtime, she asked her mom straight out: “Is Nathan your boyfriend?” Amy said yes, she liked him a lot. “You like him too, don’t you?”
“No,” Lyndy said. “I don’t like secrets.”
She asked her mom to uninvite Nathan from her 4-H show with her heifer, Dewdrop. When he turned up anyway to cheer her on, she sat down on the ground and refused to go on. It was a small-town show and a small heartbreak, and it was never really about the heifer.
Emmy understood it too. “She didn’t like Nathan because she didn’t want him to be there. She wanted her actual dad to be there,” she told TV Insider. “She didn’t want things to change.” If you want the whole romance, we have every one of the men who have loved Amy, from Ty to Nathan.
Lyndy in Heartland Season 20
Heartland‘s 20th season premiered on CBC on Sunday, October 4, 2026. At the end of Season 19, Nathan decided to sell his ranch, start over on Salt Spring Island and asked Amy to marry him. CBC’s Season 20 preview says Amy now grapples with what that future would mean for her life at Heartland. A choice like that is never just Amy’s. It is Lyndy’s too, which is part of why Amy’s decision is so hard.
There are lighter moments, too. In the second episode, “Apples Never Fall,” Amy promises to teach Lyndy liberty, working a horse with no ropes or tack, before a surprise visit from Nathan’s mom pulls her away. The little girl born in the loft is now learning her mother’s gift, one lesson at a time. Fans in the U.S. can watch the new season when it premieres on UP Faith & Family on November 19.
And the twins already have a storyline in mind. Ruby pitched it to CBC: Lyndy has a nightmare, wakes up, “and there’s another Lyndy standing there.”
“And it can be me!” Emmy said.
After all these years of taking turns, it is the one scene they really want: two Lyndys, side by side, finally in the same shot.
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