Janet Henfrey

Aug 16, 1935 (90 years old) in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

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.

Known For

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Doctor Who

Mrs Pitt

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The Crown

Vita Sackville-West

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Doctor Who

Miss Hardaker

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Father Brown

Vera Thimble

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Cruella

Society Maven

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EverAfter

Celeste

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Wolf Hall

Lady Margaret Pole

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Lovejoy

Miss Frobisher

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Bridget Jones's Baby

Mavis Enderbury

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Jeeves and Wooster

Miss Mapleton

Credits

Tales of the Tardis 2023

Miss Hardaker

★ 4.4
Persuasion 2022

Viscountess Lady Dalrymple

★ 6
Cruella 2021

Society Maven

★ 8
The New Pope 2020

Lady Brannox

★ 7.6
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor 2019

The Adjudicator

★ 5.5
Dirty Little Rascals 2018

Nan

★ NR
The Crown 2016

Vita Sackville-West

★ 8.2
Bridget Jones's Baby 2016

Mavis Enderbury

★ 6.4
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 2016

Dowager

★ 6.2
London Road 2015

Ivy

★ 5.6
Wolf Hall 2015

Lady Margaret Pole

★ 7.5
Father Brown 2013

Vera Thimble

★ 7.6
Metamorphosis 2012

★ 5
Fairytale of London Town 2010

Elsie Grindell

★ NR
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well 2009

The Widow

★ 7.5
The Omen 2006

Mrs. Horton

★ 5.6
Tipping the Velvet 2002

Mrs. Jex

★ 7
My Uncle Silas 2001

Aunt Tibby

★ 7
Blow Dry 2001

Aerobics Teacher

★ 5.9
Attila 2001

Palcharia

★ 6.3
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) 2000

★ 6.5
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz 2000

Janice Waily

★ 6.6
Doomwatch: Winter Angel 1999

Julie

★ 7.5
The Worst Witch 1998

Mistress Hecketty Broomhead

★ 7.3
Jilting Joe 1998

Miss Doughty

★ NR
EverAfter 1998

Celeste

★ 7.4
Swept from the Sea 1998

★ 6.4
The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997

Ms. Goldstein

★ 6.4
Mrs. Dalloway 1997

Miss Pym

★ 5.6
Dual Balls 1997

★ NR
The Moonstone 1996

Mrs. Yolland

★ 7
The Treasure Seekers 1996

Governess

★ 5.3
A Pin for the Butterfly 1995

Mrs. Veverka

★ 4.8
Dragonworld 1994

Miss Twittingham

★ 5
Deadly Obsession 1992

Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem

★ NR
The Count of Solar 1992

Mlle Debierre

★ NR
As Time Goes By 1992

Mrs. Bale

★ 7.5
Bernard and the Genie 1991

Miss Purse

★ 7.3
The Fool 1990

★ 7
The Upper Hand 1990

Dorothy Cooper

★ 7
Jeeves and Wooster 1990

Miss Mapleton

★ 8.1
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric 1989

Miss Hardaker

★ 8.5
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989

Alice

★ 7.3
Young Charlie Chaplin 1989

Sister Mills

★ NR
The Singing Detective 1986

Schoolteacher

★ 7.6
Foreign Body 1986

Landlady

★ 4.1
Lovejoy 1986

Miss Frobisher

★ 7.3
Oliver Twist 1985

★ 5.6
Unfair Exchanges 1985

Teacher

★ NR
Chocky 1984

Cranky Woman

★ NR
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas 1984

Lucy

★ 5.2
The Weather in the Streets 1983

Lady Blanche

★ 3
Reilly: Ace of Spies 1983

Receptionist

★ 7
Fanny Hill 1983

Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited

★ 5.3
The Tamarind Seed 1974

Embassy Section Head

★ 6.2
The Jazz Age 1968

Frau Tonn

★ NR
Stand Up, Nigel Barton 1965

Miss Tillings

★ NR
Martin Chuzzlewit 1964

★ NR
Doctor Who 1963

Miss Hardaker

★ 7.9
It's All Happening 1963

April

★ 5