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Janet E. A. Henfrey is a British stage and television actress. She is best known for playing Mrs. Bale on As Time Goes By, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the BBC Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective (1986). She had previously appeared in the Potter play Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965), also as a schoolteacher.
Birth Name
Janet E. A. Henfrey
Born
Friday, 16 August 1935
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Persuasion | Viscountess Lady Dalrymple | 2022 |
Cruella | Society Maven | 2021 |
Victoria Wood: The Secret List | Mrs. Hennigan | 2020 |
The New Pope | Lady Brannox | 2020 |
Nutritiously Nicola | Therapist | 2018 |
The Crown | Vita Sackville-West | 2016 |
Bridget Jones's Baby | Mavis Enderbury | 2016 |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Dowager | 2016 |
London Road | Ivy | 2015 |
Wolf Hall | Lady Margaret Pole | 2015 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Persuasion | Viscountess Lady Dalrymple | 2022 |
Cruella | Society Maven | 2021 |
Victoria Wood: The Secret List | Mrs. Hennigan | 2020 |
The New Pope | Lady Brannox | 2020 |
Nutritiously Nicola | Therapist | 2018 |
The Crown | Vita Sackville-West | 2016 |
Bridget Jones's Baby | Mavis Enderbury | 2016 |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Dowager | 2016 |
London Road | Ivy | 2015 |
Wolf Hall | Lady Margaret Pole | 2015 |
Mr. Turner | Janet | 2014 |
Father Brown | Vera Thimble | 2013 |
Metamorphosis | The Cleaner | 2012 |
Toast of London | Penny Traitor | 2012 |
Season of Mists | Mary | 2009 |
The Omen | Mrs. Horton | 2006 |
Doctor Who | Mrs. Pitt | 2005 |
Marple | Mrs. Lee | 2004 |
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | Mrs. Robey | 2003 |
Tipping the Velvet | Mrs. Jex | 2002 |
The Basil Brush Show | Aunt Quartermass | 2002 |
My Uncle Silas | Aunt Tibby | 2001 |
Blow Dry | Aerobics Teacher | 2001 |
Attila | Palcharia | 2001 |
Doctors | Poppy Heppel / Martha Bidwell | 2000 |
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Hettie Craven | 2000 |
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz | Janice Waily | 2000 |
Doomwatch: Winter Angel | Julie | 1999 |
An Ideal Husband | Miss Prism | 1999 |
The Worst Witch | Miss Hecate Broomhead | 1998 |
Ever After: A Cinderella Story | Celeste | 1998 |
Les Misérables | Mme. Gilot | 1998 |
Swept from the Sea | Mrs. Rigby | 1998 |
The Man Who Knew Too Little | Ms. Goldstein | 1997 |
Mrs Dalloway | Miss Pym | 1997 |
The Moonstone | Mrs. Yolland | 1996 |
The Prince and the Pauper | Goody Watson | 1996 |
No Bananas | Miss Cardew | 1996 |
The Treasure Seekers | Governess | 1996 |
The Famous Five | Aggie | 1995 |
Cone Zone | Twigg | 1995 |
A Pin for the Butterfly | Mrs. Veverka | 1995 |
Dragonworld | Miss Twittingham | 1994 |
Downwardly Mobile | Anna | 1994 |
Just a Gigolo | Cynthia | 1993 |
As Time Goes By | Mrs. Bale | 1992 |
Genie | Miss Purse | 1991 |
Bernard and the Genie | Miss Purse | 1991 |
Alleyn Mysteries | Mrs. Hipkins | 1990 |
The Fool | 1990 | |
The Upper Hand | Dorothy Cooper | 1990 |
Jeeves and Wooster | Miss Mapleton | 1990 |
One Foot in the Grave | Miss Lander | 1990 |
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | Alice | 1989 |
Capstick's Law | Miss Price | 1989 |
Mike & Angelo | Mrs. Hardacre | 1989 |
Young Charlie Chaplin | Sister Mills | 1989 |
A Fine Romance | Olga | 1989 |
Simon and the Witch | Tombola | 1987 |
The Singing Detective | Schoolteacher | 1986 |
Foreign Body | Landlady | 1986 |
Casualty | Sister Joan | 1986 |
Lady Jane | Housekeeper | 1986 |
Boon | University Registrar | 1986 |
Lovejoy | Miss Frobisher | 1986 |
Alice in Wonderland | Queen of Hearts | 1985 |
Oliver Twist | Martha | 1985 |
Honour, Profit & Pleasure | Hop-Pole | 1985 |
Unfair Exchange | Teacher | 1985 |
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV | Mrs Hennigan | 1985 |
Screen Two | Teacher / Mlle Debierre | 1985 |
Chocky | Cranky Woman | 1984 |
The Jewel in the Crown | Edwina Crane | 1984 |
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas | Lucy | 1984 |
The Weather in the Streets | Lady Blanche | 1983 |
Reilly: Ace of Spies | Receptionist | 1983 |
Fanny Hill | Lady in intellegence office | 1983 |
Reds | Emma Goldman's Jail Guard | 1981 |
Great Expectations | Camilla | 1981 |
Mark Gertler: Fragments of a Biography | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 1981 |
The Tamarind Seed | Embassy Section Head | 1974 |
Wessex Tales | Mary | 1973 |
Tickertape | Self | 1968 |
The Wednesday Play | Miss Tillings | 1964 |
Doctor Who | Miss Hardaker | 1963 |
The Dream Maker | April | 1963 |