Biography
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Hetty Baynes began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev’s The Nutcracker at the Opera House, Covent Garden. She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting Assistant Stage Manager in repertory theatre.
Theatre includes:
- 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 (Birds 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).
Television includes:
- 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
- Alice in Russialand
- Privateer 2 : The Darkening
- The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
- Minder VII
- 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 Mystery of the Seven Dials
- Dombey and Sons
- Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Benefit of the Doubt
- The Last Song
- Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Renoir My Father
and Stephen Lowe’s play for the BBC, Kisses on the Bottom, about the seaside postcard characters in which she played Vera, the ‘buxom blonde’,
- Red Dwarf - Dimension Jump,
- Footballers' Wives : ITV (February 2006).
Her numerous radio performances include:
Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror, Tim Merryman’s Days of Clover, John Naismith's A Memory Longer Than Death, Suzy in the radio soap Citizens and Marilyn Monroe in Anyone Can See I Love You - nominated for Best Actress at the Sony and PrixItalia Awards.
Film includes:
- 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.
Hetty Baynes is also credited as Henrieta Baynes, Henrietta Baynes and Hetty Russell.
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