Hetty Baynes

Hetty Baynes
Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She began her career in ballet by training from the age of 10 at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut, at the age of 12, in Rudolf Nureyev's The Nutcracker followed by The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In her mid-teens she moved from dance to acting.
She began her acting career at 17, as an acting ASM in repertory theatre. She was married to film director Ken Russell from 1992 to 1999; they had one son.
Early life and education
Baynes was born in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, the daughter of aeronautical engineer Leslie Baynes, who designed what is believed to be the oldest flying glider in the United Kingdom, and Margot (née Findlay). Baynes attended the Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley in Surrey, where a contemporary was the actress Laura Hartong. Hetty graduated with a Creative Writing MA in 2015 from Birkbeck College London University, where she also took a BA in Philosophy in the late 1980s.
Career
Acting career
Her stage career has involved many roles: in 1979 in John Osborne's Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court Theatre, and in 1984, a comic performance alongside Maureen Lipman and Lionel Jeffries in the Theatre of Comedy’s See How They Run. In 1991, she appeared with Edward Fox, in The Philanthropist at Wyndham's Theatre and in 1997, she appeared as Lady Fidget in William Wycherley's The Country Wife . Her most recent stage performance was in 2004, as Shirley in Revelations by Stephen Lowe at the Hampstead Theatre.
During her career she has received three best actress nominations for her performances: in 1991, as Rita in Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf (Off-West End Awards), in 1992, as Maddy in Michael Wall's Women Laughing (Manchester Evening News Awards) and as Marilyn Monroe in Marilyn Bowering's Anyone Can See I Love You (Sony and Prix Italia Awards).
Baynes has also appeared on television including, in 1981, Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery, in 1985, with Pauline Collins and Michael Gambon in The Tropical Moon Over Dorking, in 1990, as the wife of Stephen Fry in Simon Gray's Old Flames, in 1993, as Hilda in Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley’s Lover and in The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax. She appeared as Vera Rowley in the BBC series The Hour in 2011, and was also in BBC1's The Casual Vacancy in 2015.
Art and paintings
She studied a fine art BA degree at Central St Martins. She had an exhibition at the Strand Gallery, London entitled Betsy and Blapsy.
Personal life
She was married to film director Ken Russell from 1992 to 1999; their son, Rex, was born on 7 January 1993 and is a film director.
Selected theatre appearances
The Country Wife (Plymouth & tour)
The Heidi Chronicles
The Passing Out Parade
The Admirable Crichton (Greenwich Theatre)
Women Laughing - Best Actress nomination for the Manchester Evening News Awards (Manchester Royal Exchange)
The Philanthropist (Wyndham Theatre)
Little Eyolf - Best Actress nomination for the Fringe Awards (Bird's Nest)
Hand Over Fist (Watermill)
See How They Run
Theatre of Comedy (Shaftesbury Theatre)
Buglar Boy (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Festival)
Happy Event
The Reluctante Debutant
Hay Fever (Windsor)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Lyric, Belfast)
Chorus Girls (Stratford East)
Suddenly Last Summer
Three Sisters (Thorndike Theatre)
Inadmissible Evidence (Royal Court)
Othello (Ludlow Festival) and
The Merry Wives of Windsor
On the Rocks (Mermaid Theatre).
Selected television appearances
Doctors (2020) as Yvonne Wrigley
Father Brown (2017) as Lucia Morell, episode 5.5 "The Hand of Lucia"
Secret Army
My Family
Cutting It
Cor Blimey
The Bill - A Time to Kill
Jonathan Creek - Miracle in Crooked Lane
A Touch of Frost - Keys to the Car
Ken Russell’s Treasure Island
The Vet
Fall of Eagles
Alice in Russialand
Privateer 2 : The Darkening
The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
Minder
Old Flames
Christmas Present
London's Burning
Harry’s Kingdom
Bergerac
The Piglet Files
Drummonds
Tropical Moon Over Dorking
Wynne & Penkovsky
Chance in a Million
Dickens of London
Running Scared
Charters & Caldicott
Marjorie and Men
Crime Writers
Just William
Good Companions
Winter Sunlight
Agatha Christie's The Seven Dials Mystery
Dombey and Son
Sense and Sensibility
Nicholas Nickleby
Benefit of the Doubt
The Last Song
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Renoir My Father
Red Dwarf - Dimension Jump
Footballers' Wives
The Hour
The Casual Vacancy
Rumpole of the Bailey: Series 2, Episode 3, "Rumpole and the Show Folk" (first aired 12 June 1979), under the name Henrieta Baynes, as Christine Hope
Keep It in the Family: Series 3, Episode 1, "Splitting Headaches" (first aired 1 September 1981), under the name Henrieta Baynes, as a secretary
Selected radio performances
Far from the Madding Crowd (4 May – 8 June 1990)
Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror (8 October 2003)
Tim Merryman’s Days of Clover
John Naismith's A Memory Longer Than Death
Suzy in BBC Radio 4's drama series Citizens (1987–92)
Selected film appearances
The Balance of Nature (1983) as Blanche
Coping with Cupid
The Insatiable Mrs Kirsch (which she co-wrote with Ken Russell)
Mindbender, The Life of Uri Geller
Herbert Ross's Nijinsky
Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley
Blanche Dumas from B to Z
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
People educated at the Royal Ballet School
English film actresses
English television actresses
English stage actresses
English voice actresses
Actresses from Dorset
Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Actors from Bournemouth
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses