Lynette Davies

Lynette Davies Biography

Lynette Davies (18 October 1948 " 1 December 1993) was a Welsh stage, television, and film actress.

The daughter of a Customs and Excise officer, Davies was born in Tonypandy, Glamorgan, in 1948, and was educated at Our Lady's School, Cardiff. She trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before going into repertory at the Bristol Old Vic.

In 1974 she appeared as Regan in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear, and later the same year she played Yulia in the RSC's first British production of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk at the Aldwych Theatre.

Her highest-profile role was as Davinia Prince, the central character in The Foundation, a British television series of 1977-1978 by ATV about the widow of a business tycoon.

In 1989 she played Doll Tearsheet in an English Shakespeare Company production of King Henry IV, Part II.

In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, she was drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan. The cause of death was later determined as suicide.

Screen roles

Clayhanger (1976) " Adela Orgreave
The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976) " Miss Uproar/Imogen
Raffles (1977) " Lady Camilla Belsize
Will Shakespeare (1978) " Countess of Southampton
The Foundation (TV series) (1977-1978) " Davinia Prince
Tales of the Unexpected, "The Last Bottle in the World" (1981) " Sophie Kassoulas
Miracles Take Longer (1984) " Jenny Swanne
Tales of the Unexpected, "The Best Chess Player in the World" (1984) " Paula Shaw
No Place Like Home, "Dear Miss Davenport" (1986) " Celia Davenport
Inside Story (1986) " Eileen Stead
The District Nurse (1987) " Isobel Huxtable
Bergerac, "Treasure Hunt" (1987) " Miranda Bassett
The Watch House (1988) " Fiona
The Christmas Stallion (1992) " Nerys
Street Legal, "Children's Hour" (1992) " Dr Renata Berger

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