Hetty Baynes

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Hetty Baynes 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 at the Opera House, Covent Garden. She began her acting career at just 17 as an acting Assistant Stage Manager in repertory theatre.

Theatre includes:

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 (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 (Stratford East)
Suddenly Last Summer
Three Sisters (Thorndike Theatre)
Inadmissible Evidence (Royal Court)
Othello (Ludlow Festival) and
The Merry Wives of Windsor
On the Rocks (Mermaid Theatre).

Television includes:

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
Alice in Russialand
Privateer 2 : The Darkening
The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
Minder VII
Old Flames
Christmas Present
London’s Burning
Harry’s Kingdom
Bergerac
The Piglet Files
Drummonds
Tropical Moon Over Dorking
Wynne & Penkovsky
Chance in a Million
Dickens of London
Running Scared
Charters & Caldicott
Marjorie and Men
Crime Writers
Just William
Good Companions
Winter Sunlight
Agatha Christie's Mystery of the Seven Dials
Dombey and Sons
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Nicholas Nickleby
Benefit of the Doubt
The Last Song
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Renoir My Father

and Stephen Lowe’s play for the BBC, Kisses on the Bottom, about the seaside postcard characters in which she played Vera, the ‘buxom blonde’,

Red Dwarf - Dimension Jump,
Footballers' Wives : ITV (February 2006).

Her numerous radio performances include:

Rumpole and the Vanishing Juror, Tim Merryman’s Days of Clover, John Naismith's A Memory Longer Than Death, Suzy in the radio soap Citizens and Marilyn Monroe in Anyone Can See I Love You - nominated for Best Actress at the Sony and PrixItalia Awards.

Film includes: