| 词条 | Lynette Davies |
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Lynette Vaynor Davies (18 October 1948 – 1 December 1993) was a Welsh stage, television, and film actress. LifeThe 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.[1] In 1974 she appeared as Regan in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear,[2][3] and later the same year she played Yulia in the RSC's first British production of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk at the Aldwych Theatre.[4] 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.[5][6] In 1989 she played Doll Tearsheet in an English Shakespeare Company production of Henry IV, Part 2.[7] In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, Davies drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan.[8] The cause of death was later determined as suicide. At the time of her death Davies was living at 31a Mortimer Road, Cardiff CF11, and she left an estate valued at £251,073.[9] Screen roles
Notes1. ^Anthony Hayward, [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lynette-davies-1467170.html Obituary: Lynette Davies] dated 13 December 1993 from The Independent online at independent.co.uk, accessed 15 May 2011 {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Lynette}}2. ^King Lear at rscshakespeare.co.uk, accessed 15 May 2011 3. ^Otis L. Guernsey, Al Hirschfeld, The Best Plays of 1974-1975 (1975), p. 109 4. ^Guernsey & Hirschfeld (1975), p. 118 5. ^Vincent Terrace, Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials: 1974-1984 (1985), p. 430 6. ^The Listener, vols. 100-101 (1978), p. 278 7. ^Barbara Hodgdon, Henry IV, part two (1993), [https://books.google.com/books?id=0yK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA148#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 148] 8. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/actress-dies-1466985.html Actress dies] in The Independent on Sunday dated 12 December 1993: "LYNETTE DAVIES, who starred as Davinia Prince in the 1970s TV series The Foundation, was found drowned at Lavernock Point, near Penarth, South Glamorgan." 9. ^[https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Davies&yearOfDeath=1994&page=52#calendar Search for Davies, Lynette Vaynor, 1994] at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 28 August 2015 10 : 1948 births|1993 deaths|Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|Welsh film actresses|Welsh stage actresses|Welsh television actresses|Suicides in Wales|People from Tonypandy|20th-century British actresses|Welsh actresses who committed suicide |
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