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HETTY BAYNES LEADING ACTRESS

THEATRE Wyndham Theatre THE PHILANTHROPIST Araminta Manchester, Royal Exchange WOMEN LAUGHING Maddie Nominated for best actress: Manchester Evening NewsAwards Greenwich Theatre THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Susie Royal Court INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE Jane Maitland Wedding Collective Tour WAR CRIME Julie Swan Hampstead Theatre REVELATIONS Shirley Plymouth & Tour THE COUNTRY WIFE Lady Fidget Birds Nest, Deptford LITTLE EYOLF Rita Allmers Nominated for best actress: Fringe Awards Watermill, Newbury HAND OVER FIST Gwen Shaftesbury Theatre SEE HOW THEY RUN Ida Windsor Theatre Royal HAPPY EVENT Polly THE RELUCTANTE DEBUTANTE Clarissa H HAY FEVER Jackie TraverseTheatre Edinburgh BUGLAR BOY Buglar Boy Lyric, Belfast LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME Nicole / Dorimene Stratford East CHORUS GIRLS Julie Theatre Clwyd WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR TROUSERS Sally Thorndike SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER Cathy THREE SISTERS Natasha Greenwich THE PASSING OUT PARADE Rita Crab THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON Fisher Ludlow Festival OTHELLO Bianca Mermaid Theatre MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Anne Page ON THE ROCKS Flavia Chavender TELEVISION BBC DOCTORS Susie Shed Prods. FOOTBALLERS WIVES Fiona BBC MY FAMILY Rhoda Baxter BBC CUTTING IT Tinker Haines BBC CRIMEWRITERS Yvette BBC FALL OF EAGLES Princess Tatiana Pearson/ITV THE BILL – “Time To Kill” Bev Poulter BBC JONATHAN CREEK Jackie Jordan YTV A TOUCH OF FROST – “Keys To The Car” Amanda Ch 4 KEN RUSSELL’STREASURE ISLAND Long Jane Silver BBC THE VET Danielle Morgan Electronic Arts THE DARKENING Dr. Fravell Euston Films/ ITV MINDER VII Lorna LWT THE PIGLET FILES Angela Wagstaff BBC BERGERAC Rita Smith YTV SINGLES Stella BBC WYNNE AND PENKOVSKY Mandy Rice-Davis YTV BALANCE OR NATURE Caroline Thames CHANCE IN A MILLION Sadie YTV DICKENS OF LONDON Fanny Dickens LWT THE GENTLE TOUCH Liza BBC THE SECRET ARMY Yvonne BBC RUNNING SCARED Leila Anglia/ITV MARJORIE AND MEN Maggie LWT JUST WILLIAM Phillipa Pomeroy LWT GOOD COMPANIONS Frida Thames RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY Jane Limehouse for Ch4 WINTER SUNLIGHT Wanda LWT MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN DIALS Vera BBC DOMBEY AND SONS Jemima Toodle BBC SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Charlotte Palmer BBC NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Tilda Price BBC BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT Barbara BBC THE LAST SONG Jane BBC HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Fleur de Lys BBC RENOIR MY FATHER Nelly BBC KISSES ON THE BOTTOM Vera LWT DRUMMONDS Miranda Quinn Limehouse for Ch4 TROPICAL MOON OVER DORKING Camilla FILMS AND TELEVISION FILMS Cranberry Films LILLIE Scarlett BBC and feature release/DVD LADY CHATTERLEY Hilda Company Pictures COR BLIMEY Maggie Momentous Events ALICE IN RUSSIALAND Alice Zeigler Productions THE INSATIABLE MRS KIRSCH Mrs Kirsch Doran Eran Productions MINDBENDER Kitty Hartman Paramount Pictures NIJINSKY Magda Kosta Telekation for Ch4Film on 4 CHRISTMAS PRESENT Pamela LWT Film LONDON’S BURNING Mrs Grant BBC Screen 2 HARRY’S KINGDOM Gloria BBC Screen 2 OLD FLAMES Sophie Davenport BFI COPING WITH CUPID 3 Cupid’s The South Bank Show THE SECRET LIFE OF SIR ARNOLD BAX Annie RADIO Radio 4 (Three years) CITIZENS Susie (running character) Edinburgh Festival/Radio 4 ANYONE CAN SEE I LOVE YOU Marilyn Monroe Nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Marilyn Monroe and Best Play: Sony Awards and PrixItalia And many other radio plays for radio 4 and Catherine Bailey for radio 4 and voice overs BIOGRAPHY Hetty began her performing career as a ballet dancer at the age of 3. She performed throughout her childhood in festivals and competitions throughout the country and by the age of 8 came 2nd in the Sunshine All England competition at The Scala Theatre in the West-End,London. She also achieved Honours in all the RAD ballet exams and by the age of 9 had been accepted at The Royal Ballet School at White Lodge in Richmond Park. By 12 years old she was performing at Covent Garden with The Royal Ballet Company in The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev. She decided, however, by the age of 14 that she wanted to become an actress, so went to Elmhurst Ballet School ( other notable pupils have been Fiona Fullerton and Jenny Agutter) where she acquired her first theatrical agent, securing her first job as an actress at 15, as Princess Tatiana in BBC production ‘Fall of Eagles’. She went on to Worthing Repertory Company as an acting ASM at 17 where she served her apprenticeship. Her considerable acting career (see CV) has spanned from 1973-2008 and included best actress nomination’s and many successful reviews. She has worked with the greats:- Sir John Guilgood ,Alan Bates, Alan Badel,Timothy West, Nicol Williamson, Edward Fox and many more. Her other accomplishments have included a PT Philosophy BA at Birkbeck , London University1986-9 ; PT Portfolio and first year BA Fine Art at Central St Martins 2000.Hetty has taught drama/ improvisation privately and as a group in her own company Acting Works at Dance Works, Marble Arch on and off 1994-2004. She was Head of Drama at Fusion Academy of Performing Arts 2006-7. She has lectured occasionally at London university BA drama, 2007-8 and lectured and adjudicated at Goldsmiths College, London University, for MA students in Art in Society 2006-8. Hetty choreographed for Ken Russell in The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax, Alice in Russialand and Lady Chatterley (BBC TV and DVD film). She also assisted Ken Russell in casting for Treasure Island (channel 4) and Alice in Russialand.1992-7. She co-wrote The Insatiable Mrs Kirsch (feature film) with Ken Russell 1993 and was assistant director to Stephen Tiller for his production of Warcrime 2004