Janet Henfrey

Actor Aug 16 (age 90) Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK 1963–2023 (60 year career)

6.4 avg rating

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

Film

Cruella

Society Maven

Film

EverAfter

Celeste

Film

Bridget Jones's Baby

Mavis Enderbury

Film

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Dowager

Film

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Alice

Film

The Omen

Mrs. Horton

Film

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Ms. Goldstein

Film

Persuasion

Viscountess Lady Dalrymple

Filmography

Acting (64)

Movies (39)

Persuasion

2022

as Viscountess Lady Dalrymple

6.1

Cruella

2021

as Society Maven

8.0

Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor

2019

as The Adjudicator

5.5

Dirty Little Rascals

2018

as Nan

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

as Dowager

Bridget Jones's Baby

as Mavis Enderbury

London Road

as Ivy

Metamorphosis

Fairytale of London Town

2010

as Elsie Grindell

National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well

as The Widow

The Omen

as Mrs. Horton

Blow Dry

as Aerobics Teacher

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz

2000

as Janice Waily

6.6

Doomwatch: Winter Angel

as Julie

EverAfter

as Celeste

Swept from the Sea

Jilting Joe

as Miss Doughty

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

as Miss Pym

5.5

The Man Who Knew Too Little

as Ms. Goldstein

Dual Balls

The Moonstone

as Mrs. Yolland

The Treasure Seekers

as Governess

A Pin for the Butterfly

as Mrs. Veverka

Dragonworld

as Miss Twittingham

Deadly Obsession

as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem

The Count of Solar

1992

as Mlle Debierre

Bernard and the Genie

as Miss Purse

The Fool

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989

as Alice

7.3

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric

as Miss Hardaker

Foreign Body

as Landlady

Unfair Exchanges

as Teacher

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

1984

as Lucy

4.6

Chocky

1984

as Cranky Woman

Fanny Hill

1983

as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited

5.2

The Weather in the Streets

1983

as Lady Blanche

2.3

The Tamarind Seed

1974

as Embassy Section Head

6.2

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

1965

as Miss Tillings

It's All Happening

1963

as April

5.0

Television (25)

Tales of the Tardis

as Miss Hardaker

The New Pope

as Lady Brannox

The Crown

as Vita Sackville-West

8.2

Wolf Hall

2015

as Lady Margaret Pole

Father Brown

as Vera Thimble

Doctor Who

as Mrs Pitt

The Basil Brush Show

as Aunt Quartermass

Tipping the Velvet

as Mrs. Jex

Attila

as Palcharia

My Uncle Silas

as Aunt Tibby

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

2000

6.5

The Worst Witch

1998

as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead

As Time Goes By

as Mrs. Bale

The Upper Hand

as Dorothy Cooper

Jeeves and Wooster

as Miss Mapleton

Young Charlie Chaplin

1989

as Sister Mills

Lovejoy

1986

as Miss Frobisher

7.3

The Singing Detective

as Schoolteacher

Oliver Twist

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Receptionist

Churchill's People

as Charlotte

Wessex Tales

as Mary

The Jazz Age

as Frau Tonn

Martin Chuzzlewit

1964

Doctor Who

1963

as Miss Hardaker

7.9