Portrait of Janet Henfrey

Janet Henfrey

Acting

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.

Born: August 16, 1935

Place of Birth: Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

Filmography

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
The Crown

as Vita Sackville-West

2016
Bridget Jones's Baby

as Mavis Enderbury

2015
2015
Wolf Hall

as Lady Margaret Pole

2013
Father Brown

as Vera Thimble

2006
The Omen

as Mrs. Horton

2005
Doctor Who

as Mrs Pitt

2002
2001
My Uncle Silas

as Aunt Tibby

2001
Blow Dry

as Aerobics Teacher

2001
Attila

as Palcharia

2000
1998
The Worst Witch

as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead

1998
EverAfter

as Celeste

1997
1997
Mrs. Dalloway

as Miss Pym

1996
The Moonstone

as Mrs. Yolland

1996
1994
Dragonworld

as Miss Twittingham

1992
Deadly Obsession

as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem

1992
The Count of Solar

as Mlle Debierre

1992
As Time Goes By

as Mrs. Bale

1991
1990
The Upper Hand

as Dorothy Cooper

1990
Jeeves and Wooster

as Miss Mapleton

1989
Young Charlie Chaplin

as Sister Mills

1986
The Singing Detective

as Schoolteacher

1986
Foreign Body

as Landlady

1986
Lovejoy

as Miss Frobisher

1985
Oliver Twist

as Martha

1985
1984
Chocky

as Cranky Woman

1983
1983
Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Receptionist

1983
Fanny Hill

as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited

1974
The Tamarind Seed

as Embassy Section Head

1965
Stand Up, Nigel Barton

as Miss Tillings

1963
Doctor Who

as Miss Hardaker

1963