Henrietta S.L. "Hetty" Baynes (born 1956) is an English

England

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 actress. She began her career as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School

Royal Ballet School

The Royal Ballet School is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the Royal Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in London...

 and made her professional debut at 12 in Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...

's The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...

at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting ASM in repertory theatre. She was married to film director Ken Russell

Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...

 from 1992 to 1999; they had one son, Rex. She has also been credited as Hettie Baynes, Henrieta Baynes, Henrietta Baynes and Hetty Russell.

Financial provision

In 2008 Baynes unsuccessfully sought financial provision as a "dependant" against the £2.3 million estate of the late Mary Spencer Watson, including the family home in Purbeck, Dorset. Miss Spencer Watson, a sculptor, had had a lesbian relationship with Baynes' mother. Mr Dumont, her counsel, said in court that Ms Baynes was a very capable actress "who has performed widely on stage, television and in film", but it was very difficult for her to obtain parts. Her aim was to take a creative writing course and support herself through writing. He said she was now in "extremely straitened circumstances", with liabilities of £160,000. She was seeking an order from the court which will discharge her debts, purchase a three-bedroomed property in South London

South London

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 and a car, and would "provide a financial cushion to cover her until she has her life on an even keel" and can start to support herself and her 15-year-old son Rex from her marriage to Mr Russell.

Rejecting Baynes' claim, Mr Justice Lewison, said: "I find... that Mary made no firm commitment of any sort to Hetty ... In my judgment, she exploited Mary's generosity at the end of 2005 and the early part of 2006 and brought pressure to bear on her to bail her out yet again ... From December 2005 to the end of Mary's life, Hetty mounted a sustained campaign to persuade Mary to pay off her debts and provide for her future."

The judge was critical of her conduct. She appealed against the decision but on 7 May 2009 the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and decided that as Spencer Watson had not been maintaining her, Baynes had no claim for provision.

Selected theatre appearances

• The Country Wife (Plymouth & tour)
• The Heidi Chronicles
  The Heidi Chronicles
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• The Passing Out Parade
• The Admirable Crichton
  The Admirable Crichton
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  (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
  Chorus Girls (musical)
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  (Stratford East)
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Three Sisters
  Three Sisters (play)
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  (Thorndike Theatre)
• Inadmissible Evidence (Royal Court)
• Othello
  Othello
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  (Ludlow Festival) and
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
  The Merry Wives of Windsor
  The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life...
  
  
• On the Rocks (Mermaid Theatre).

Selected television appearances

• My Family
• Cutting It
• Cor Blimey
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
  - A Time to Kill
• Jonathan Creek
  Jonathan Creek
  Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
  
  - Miracle in Crooked Lane
• A Touch of Frost
  A Touch of Frost (TV series)
  A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
  
  : 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
  Minder (TV series)
  Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV...
  
  VII
• Old Flames
• Christmas Present
• London’s Burning
  London's Burning
  London's Burning was a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.It was broadcast between 1986 and...
  
  
• Harry’s Kingdom
• Bergerac
  Bergerac (TV series)
  Bergerac was a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and screened on BBC1, it starred John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" Bergerac was a British television show...
  
  
• The Piglet Files
  The Piglet Files
  The Piglet Files is a British sitcom produced by LWT .The show consisted of three series totaling twenty-one episodes that ran between 1990 and 1992....
  
  
• Drummonds
• Tropical Moon Over Dorking
• Wynne & Penkovsky
• Chance in a Million
• Dickens of London
• Running Scared
  Running Scared (TV series)
  Running Scared is a British television children's drama serial produced by the BBC and transmitted in 1986, based on the Bernard Ashley novel and is set in Woolwich with the Woolwich Ferry featuring in a key scene....
  
  
• Charters & Caldicott
• Marjorie and Men
• Crime Writers
• Just William
  Just William
  Just William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. The book was the first in the series of William Brown books which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations...
  
  
• Good Companions
• Winter Sunlight
• Agatha Christie
  Agatha Christie
  Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
  
  's The Seven Dials Mystery
  The Seven Dials Mystery
  The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on January 24, 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year...
  
  
• Dombey and Son
  Dombey and Son (TV serial)
  Dombey and Son is a television mini-series produced by the BBC in 1983. It was based on the book Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.It was adapted by James Andrew Hall and directed by Rodney Bennett.- Cast :*Julian Glover - Paul Dombey Sr....
  
  
• Sense and Sensibility
  Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV serial)
  Sense and Sensibility is a 1981 BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. The seven-part series was dramatized by Alexander Baron, and directed by Rodney Bennett....
  
  
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Benefit of the Doubt
• The Last Song
• Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Renoir My Father
• Red Dwarf
  Red Dwarf
  Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...
  
  - Dimension Jump,
• Footballers' Wives
  Footballers' Wives
  Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
  
  

Selected radio performances

• Far from the Madding Crowd (4 May – 8 June 1990)
• Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror (8 October 2003)
• Tim Merryman’s Days of Clover
• John Naismith's A Memory Longer Than Death
• Suzy in the Radio 4 soap opera Citizens (1987–1992)

Selected film appearances

• Coping with Cupid
• The Insatiable Mrs Kirsch (which she co-wrote with Ken Russell
  Ken Russell
  Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
  
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• Mindbender, The Life of Uri Geller
  Uri Geller
  Uri Geller is a self-proclaimed psychic known for his trademark television performances of spoon bending and other supposed psychic effects. Throughout the years, Geller has been accused of using simple conjuring tricks to achieve the effects of psychokinesis and telepathy...
  
  
• Herbert Ross
  Herbert Ross
  Herbert Ross was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.-Early life and career:Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942...
  
  ’s Nijinsky
  Nijinsky (film)
  Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Hugh Wheeler, whose screenplay centers on the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky, used the legendary dancer's personal diaries and his wife's 1933 book Life of Nijinsky as his primary source materials.-Synopsis:The film...
  
  
• Ken Russell's Lady Chatterley

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