Janet Henfrey

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Known For

Acting

Born

1935-08-16

Place of Birth

Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
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Janet Henfrey

Biography

Janet E. A. Henfrey (born 16 August 1935) is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on PBS stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective.

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Acting History

2023
Tales of the Tardis as Miss Hardaker
2022
Persuasion as Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
2021
Cruella as Society Maven
2020
The New Pope as Lady Brannox
2019
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor as The Adjudicator
2018
Dirty Little Rascals as Nan
2016
The Crown as Vita Sackville-West
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby as Mavis Enderbury
2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as Dowager
2015
London Road as Ivy
2015
Wolf Hall as Lady Margaret Pole
2013
Father Brown as Vera Thimble
2012
Metamorphosis
2010
Fairytale of London Town as Elsie Grindell
2009
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well as The Widow
2006
The Omen as Mrs. Horton
2005
Doctor Who as Mrs Pitt
2002
Tipping the Velvet as Mrs. Jex
2001
My Uncle Silas as Aunt Tibby
2001
Blow Dry as Aerobics Teacher
2001
Attila as Palcharia
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz as Janice Waily
1999
Doomwatch: Winter Angel as Julie
1998
The Worst Witch as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
1998
Jilting Joe as Miss Doughty
1998
EverAfter as Celeste
1998
Swept from the Sea
1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little as Ms. Goldstein
1997
Mrs. Dalloway as Miss Pym
1997
Dual Balls
1996
The Moonstone as Mrs. Yolland
1996
The Treasure Seekers as Governess
1995
A Pin for the Butterfly as Mrs. Veverka
1994
Dragonworld as Miss Twittingham
1992
Deadly Obsession as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
1992
The Count of Solar as Mlle Debierre
1992
As Time Goes By as Mrs. Bale
1991
Bernard and the Genie as Miss Purse
1990
The Fool
1990
The Upper Hand as Dorothy Cooper
1990
Jeeves and Wooster as Miss Mapleton
1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric as Miss Hardaker
1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover as Alice
1989
Young Charlie Chaplin as Sister Mills
1986
The Singing Detective as Schoolteacher
1986
Foreign Body as Landlady
1986
Lovejoy as Miss Frobisher
1985
Oliver Twist
1985
Oliver Twist as Martha
1985
Unfair Exchanges as Teacher
1984
Chocky as Cranky Woman
1984
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas as Lucy
1983
The Weather in the Streets as Lady Blanche
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies as Receptionist
1983
Fanny Hill as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
1974
Churchill's People as Charlotte
1974
The Tamarind Seed as Embassy Section Head
1968
The Jazz Age as Frau Tonn
1965
Stand Up, Nigel Barton as Miss Tillings
1964
Martin Chuzzlewit
1963
Doctor Who as Miss Hardaker
1963
It's All Happening as April