Lynette Davies

October 18, 1948 (age 45)

Tonypandy, Wales, United Kingdom

She trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before going into repertory at the Bristol Old Victoria 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 Royal Society of Chemistry "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, Participant World War II In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, Davies drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan. The cause of death was later determined as suicide. At the time of her death Lynette Davies was living at 31a Mortimer Road, Cardiff CF11, and she left an estate valued at £251,073. Clayhanger (1976) – Adela Orgreave The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976) – Mission Uproar/Imogen Raffles (1977) – Lady Camilla Belsize Will Shakespeare (1978) – Countess of Southampton The Foundation (television 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 Number Place Like Home, "Dear Mission 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) – Doctor Renata Berger.

Lynette Davies

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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.

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Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist

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She trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before going into repertory at the Bristol Old Victoria 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 Royal Society of Chemistry "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, Participant World War II In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, Davies drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan.

The cause of death was later determined as suicide. At the time of her death Lynette Davies was living at 31a Mortimer Road, Cardiff CF11, and she left an estate valued at £251,073.

Clayhanger (1976) – Adela Orgreave

The Ghosts of Motley Hall (1976) – Mission Uproar/Imogen

Raffles (1977) – Lady Camilla Belsize

Will Shakespeare (1978) – Countess of Southampton

The Foundation (television 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

Number Place Like Home, "Dear Mission 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) – Doctor Renata Berger.

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