Hetty Baynes
| Hetty Baynes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes 16 August 1956 Bournemouth, Hampshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1968-present |
| Spouse(s) | Ken Russell (m. 1992; div. 1999) |
| Children | Rex |
Henrietta Sara Louise "Hetty" Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She 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 and then 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 just 17 as an acting ASM in repertory theatre. She was married to film director Ken Russell from 1992 to 1999; they had one son, Rex. She has also been credited as Hettie Baynes, Henrieta Baynes, Henrietta Baynes, Hetty Russell and Hetty Baynes Russell. She obtained a BA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College London in 1990.
Baynes was born in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth. Her mother was Margot Findlay and her father was Leslie Baynes, an English aeronautical engineer, who designed what is believed to be the oldest flying glider in the United Kingdom. As a girl in the 1970s Baynes attended the Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley in Surrey, where a contemporary was the actress Laura Hartong.
Her stage career has involved many leading roles including in 1979 in John Osborne’s Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court Theatre, 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 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.
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