Lynette Vaynor Davies (18 October 1948 – 1 December 1993) was a Welsh stage, television, and film actress.
Life 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.Anthony Hayward, Obituary: Lynette Davies dated 13 December 1993 from The Independent online at independent.co.uk, retrieved 15 May 2011
In 1974 she appeared as Regan in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear,King Lear at rscshakespeare.co.uk, retrieved 15 May 2011Otis L. Guernsey, Al Hirschfeld, The Best Plays of 1974-1975 (1975), p. 109 and later the same year she played Yulia in the RSC's first British production of Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk at the Aldwych Theatre.Guernsey & Hirschfeld (1975), p. 118
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.Vincent Terrace, Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials: 1974-1984 (1985), p. 430The Listener, vols. 100-101 (1978), p. 278
In 1989 she played Doll Tearsheet in an English Shakespeare Company production of Henry IV, Part 2.Barbara Hodgdon, Henry IV, part two (1993), p. 148
In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, Davies drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan.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." The cause of death was later determined as suicide.
At the time of her death Davies was living in Cardiff, and she left an estate valued at £251,073.Search for Davies, Lynette Vaynor, 1994 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, retrieved 28 August 2015
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 (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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