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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1935-08-16 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

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.

Known For

Acting

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

2016

Bridget Jones's Baby as Mavis Enderbury
The Crown as Vita Sackville-West

2015

Wolf Hall as Lady Margaret Pole

2013

Father Brown as Vera Thimble

2012

2010

Fairytale of London Town as Elsie Grindell

2009

2006

The Omen as Mrs. Horton

2005

Doctor Who as Mrs Pitt

2002

Tipping the Velvet as Mrs. Jex

2001

Blow Dry as Aerobics Teacher
My Uncle Silas as Aunt Tibby
Attila as Palcharia

2000

1999

1998

Jilting Joe as Miss Doughty
EverAfter as Celeste
The Worst Witch as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead

1997

Mrs. Dalloway as Miss Pym

1996

The Moonstone as Mrs. Yolland

1994

Dragonworld as Miss Twittingham

1992

The Count of Solar as Mlle Debierre
Deadly Obsession as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
As Time Goes By as Mrs. Bale

1991

Bernard and the Genie as Miss Purse

1990

Jeeves and Wooster as Miss Mapleton
The Upper Hand as Dorothy Cooper

1989

Young Charlie Chaplin as Sister Mills

1986

Foreign Body as Landlady
Lovejoy as Miss Frobisher
The Singing Detective as Schoolteacher

1985

Unfair Exchanges as Teacher
Oliver Twist as Martha

1984

Chocky as Cranky Woman

1983

Fanny Hill as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
Reilly: Ace of Spies as Receptionist

1974

The Tamarind Seed as Embassy Section Head

1968

1965

Stand Up, Nigel Barton as Miss Tillings

1964

1963

Doctor Who as Miss Hardaker