Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes was born on 16 August 1956 and is an English film, television and theatre actress.
12 Facts About Hetty Baynes
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Hetty Baynes 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.
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Hetty Baynes began her acting career at 17, as an acting ASM in repertory theatre.
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Hetty Baynes was married to film director Ken Russell from 1992 to 1999; they had one son.
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Hetty Baynes was born in Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, the daughter of aeronautical engineer Leslie Hetty Baynes, who designed what is believed to be the oldest flying glider in the United Kingdom, and Margot.
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Hetty Baynes attended the Elmhurst Ballet School in Camberley in Surrey, where a contemporary was the actress Laura Hartong.
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Hetty Baynes graduated with a Creative Writing MA in 2015 from Birkbeck College London University, where she took a BA in Philosophy in the late 1980s.
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Hetty Baynes has 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.
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Hetty Baynes appeared as Vera Rowley in the BBC series The Hour in 2011, and was in BBC1's The Casual Vacancy in 2015.
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Hetty Baynes studied a fine art BA degree at Central St Martins.
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Hetty Baynes had an exhibition at the Strand Gallery, London entitled Betsy and Blapsy.
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Hetty Baynes 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.