{{short description|British actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | caption = | name = Hetty Baynes-Russell | birth_name = Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|8|16|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bournemouth]], [[Hampshire]], England | occupation = Actress | death_date = | death_place = | children = 1 | years_active = 1968–present | spouse = {{marriage|[[Ken Russell]]|1992|1999|end=div}} }}
'''Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hettybaynesrussell.com/ |title = HOME {{!}} Hetty Baynes}}</ref> (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://diamondmanagement.co.uk/hetty-baynes-russell|title=Hetty Baynes Russell | Diamond}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba29ca914|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311171644/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba29ca914|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 March 2016|title=Hetty Baynes|website=BFI|access-date=23 January 2019}}</ref> 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 (ballet)|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 [[Assistant Stage Manager|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]] [[L. E. Baynes|Leslie Baynes]], who designed what is believed to be the oldest flying [[glider (sailplane)|glider]] in the United Kingdom, and Margot (née Findlay). Baynes attended the [[Elmhurst School for Dance|Elmhurst Ballet School]] in [[Camberley]] in [[Surrey]], where a contemporary was the actress [[Laura Hartong]]. {{citation needed|date=July 2020}} 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/hettybaynes |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704152944/http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/hettybaynes |archive-date=4 July 2020 |title=Hetty Baynes — Blake Friedmann}}</ref>
==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 (play)|See How They Run]]''. In 1991, she appeared with [[Edward Fox (actor)|Edward Fox]], in ''[[The Philanthropist (play)|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 (playwright)|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 (playwright)|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 1976, as a missing underage girl in ''[[Z-Cars]]'', 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 (TV serial)|Lady Chatterley’s Lover]]'' and in ''The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax''. She appeared as Vera Rowley in the BBC series ''[[The Hour (BBC TV series)|The Hour]]'' in 2011, and was also in BBC1's ''[[The Casual Vacancy (miniseries)|The Casual Vacancy]]'' in 2015.<ref name="auto"/>
==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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://flaneur.me.uk/11/betsy-blapsy-an-exhibition-by-hetty-baynes-russell/|title=Betsy & Blapsy – an Exhibition by Hetty Baynes-Russell – the Flaneur}}</ref>
==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 (musical)|Chorus Girls]]'' (Stratford East) * ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' * ''[[Three Sisters (play)|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== {{incomplete list|date=November 2020}}
*''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' (2020) as [[List of Doctors characters (2020)#Yvonne Wrigley|Yvonne Wrigley]]<ref name="16nov">{{Cite episode|title=Bye Bye, Mr Kippy|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pk1s|series=Doctors|series-link=Doctors (2000 TV series)|credits=Writer: Andrew Cornish; Director: Piotr Szkopiak; Producer: Simon J Curtis|network=[[BBC]]|station=[[BBC One]]|airdate=16 November 2020}}</ref> *''[[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]]'' (2017) as Lucia Morell, episode 5.5 "The Hand of Lucia" * ''[[Secret Army (TV series)|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 (TV series)|Minder]]'' * ''Old Flames'' * ''Christmas Present'' * ''[[London's Burning (TV series)|London's Burning]]'' * ''Harry’s Kingdom'' * ''[[Bergerac (TV series)|Bergerac]]'' * ''[[The Piglet Files]]'' * ''Drummonds'' * ''Tropical Moon Over Dorking'' * ''Wynne & Penkovsky'' * ''Chance in a Million'' * ''Dickens of London'' * ''[[Running Scared (TV series)|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 (1983 TV series)|Dombey and Son]]'' * ''[[Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV series)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' * ''[[Nicholas Nickleby (1977 TV series)|Nicholas Nickleby]]'' * ''Benefit of the Doubt'' * ''[[The Last Song (TV series)|The Last Song]]'' * ''Hunchback of Notre Dame'' * ''Renoir My Father'' * ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' - Dimension Jump * ''[[Footballers' Wives]]'' * ''[[The Hour (2011 TV series)|The Hour]]'' * ''[[The Casual Vacancy (miniseries)|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 (1980 TV series)|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== * ''[[Marilyn Imrie#Far from the Madding Crowd|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (4 May – 8 June 1990) * ''[[Marilyn Imrie#Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror|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 (radio show)|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 (film)|Nijinsky]]'' * ''Ken Russell's [[Lady Chatterley (TV serial)|Lady Chatterley]]'' * ''Blanche Dumas from B to Z''
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|id=0063158|name=Hetty Baynes}}
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