Janet Henfrey

Janet Henfrey
Born	(1935-08-16) 16 August 1935 Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Alma mater	St Anne's College, Oxford Smith College Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1963–present
Known for	As Time Goes By

Janet Ethne Anne 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, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the Dennis Potter television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965), and Potter's serial The Singing Detective (1986), also as a schoolteacher.

Early life

Before training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and spent a graduate year at Smith College reading History.

Credits

Other TV credits include: Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985); As Time Goes By, The Jewel in the Crown; Reilly, Ace of Spies; Doctor Who (in the serial The Curse of Fenric and the episode "Mummy on the Orient Express"); Jeeves and Wooster; Casualty; Lovejoy; One Foot in the Grave; My Uncle Silas and Simon and the Witch. Henfrey also played a minor character in an episode of the 1996 series of The Famous Five, "Five Get into Trouble" and Mistress Hecate Broomhead in two episodes of The Worst Witch ("The Inspector Calls" and "Just Like Clockwork"). She appeared in the 2002 adaption of the British miniseries Tipping The Velvet playing the character Mrs Jex, based on the novel by Sarah Waters. She also appeared in the 2015 British miniseries adaptation of Wolf Hall.

Personal life

Janet Henfrey lives in Islington, north London. She is a member of the Labour Party and a trustee of the International Performers Aid Trust.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	It's All Happening	April
1974	The Tamarind Seed	Embassy Section Head
1981	Reds	Jail Guard	Uncredited
	Mark Gertler Fragments of a Biography	Lady Ottoline Morrell
1983	Fanny Hill	Lady in Intelligence Office	Uncredited
1984	The Weather in the Streets	Lady Blanche	TV Movie
1985	She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas	Lucy
1986	Lady Jane	Housekeeper
	Foreign Body	Landlady
1989	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover	Alice
1990	The Fool
1991	Bernard and the Genie	Miss Purse	TV movie
1994	Dragonworld	Miss Twittingham
	A Pin for the Butterfly	Mrs Veverka
1997	Mrs Dalloway	Miss Pym
	Swept from the Sea	Mrs. Rigby
	The Man Who Knew Too Little	Ms Goldstein
1998	Les Misérables	Madame Gilot
	Ever After	Celeste
	Jilting Joe	Miss Doughty
1999	An Ideal Husband	Miss Prism
2000	The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz	Janice Wailey
2001	Blow Dry	Aerobics Teacher
2002	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Mrs Robey
2006	The Omen	Mrs Horton
2009	Sezon tumanov	Mary
	National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well	The Widow
2013	Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple	Mrs Lee	Episode: “Endless Night”
2014	Father Brown	Vera Thimble	Episode: "The Daughters of Jerusalem"
	Mr. Turner	Janet	Uncredited
2012	Metamorphosis	The Cleaning Lady
2015	London Road	Ivy
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	Dowager
	Bridget Jones's Baby	Mavis Enderbury
2019	Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor	The Adjudicator	TV Movie
2022	Persuasion	Viscountess Lady Dalrymple

External links

• Janet Henfrey at IMDb