Lynette Davies

Who is Lynette Davies?

Lynette Davies 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.