Janet Henfrey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1935-08-16 (90 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.

Acting

1986

Foreign Body

as Landlady

1983

2000

1984

Chocky

as Cranky Woman

1996

The Moonstone

as Mrs. Yolland

1992

The Count of Solar

as Mlle Debierre

2021

Cruella

as Society Maven

2022

Persuasion

as Viscountess Lady Dalrymple

1963

1985

1996

2015

1983

Fanny Hill

as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited

1991

1992

Deadly Obsession

as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem

1998

Jilting Joe

as Miss Doughty

1997

2010

Fairytale of London Town

as Elsie Grindell

1994

Dragonworld

as Miss Twittingham

1998

EverAfter

as Celeste

2016

Bridget Jones's Baby

as Mavis Enderbury

1965

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

as Miss Tillings

2001

Blow Dry

as Aerobics Teacher

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Miss Pym

2019

1974

The Tamarind Seed

as Embassy Section Head

2006

The Omen

as Mrs. Horton

1995

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