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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 16, 1935
Place of Birth
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Janet Henfrey
0.4 Popularity
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
4.4
Miss Hardaker
Tales of the Tardis
2023
6.0
Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
Persuasion
2022
8.0
Society Maven
Cruella
2021
7.6
Lady Brannox
The New Pope
2020
5.5
The Adjudicator
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
2019
8.2
Vita Sackville-West
The Crown
2016
6.4
Mavis Enderbury
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
6.2
Dowager
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016
5.6
Ivy
London Road
2015
7.5
Lady Margaret Pole
Wolf Hall
2015
Credits
Tales of the Tardis
as Miss Hardaker
2023
4.4
Persuasion
as Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
2022
6.0
Cruella
as Society Maven
2021
8.0
The New Pope
as Lady Brannox
2020
7.6
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
as The Adjudicator
2019
5.5
The Crown
as Vita Sackville-West
2016
8.2
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Mavis Enderbury
2016
6.4
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as Dowager
2016
6.2
London Road
as Ivy
2015
5.6
Wolf Hall
as Lady Margaret Pole
2015
7.5
Father Brown
as Vera Thimble
2013
7.5
Metamorphosis
2012
5.0
🎬
Fairytale of London Town
as Elsie Grindell
2010
0.0
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
as The Widow
2009
7.5
The Omen
as Mrs. Horton
2006
5.6
Doctor Who
as Mrs Pitt
2005
7.5
Tipping the Velvet
as Mrs. Jex
2002
7.0
My Uncle Silas
as Aunt Tibby
2001
7.0
Blow Dry
as Aerobics Teacher
2001
5.9
Attila
as Palcharia
2001
6.3
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.1
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
as Janice Waily
2000
6.5
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
as Julie
1999
7.5
The Worst Witch
as Mistress Hecketty Broomhead
1998
6.7
🎬
Jilting Joe
as Miss Doughty
1998
0.0
EverAfter
as Celeste
1998
7.4
Swept from the Sea
1998
6.4
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Ms. Goldstein
1997
6.4
Mrs. Dalloway
as Miss Pym
1997
5.6
🎬
Dual Balls
1997
0.0
The Moonstone
as Mrs. Yolland
1996
7.0
The Treasure Seekers
as Governess
1996
5.3
🎬
A Pin for the Butterfly
as Mrs. Veverka
1995
4.8
Dragonworld
as Miss Twittingham
1994
5.0
Deadly Obsession
as Kathleen 'Kay' Calhaem
1992
0.0
The Count of Solar
as Mlle Debierre
1992
0.0
As Time Goes By
as Mrs. Bale
1992
7.6
Bernard and the Genie
as Miss Purse
1991
7.3
🎬
The Fool
1990
7.0
The Upper Hand
as Dorothy Cooper
1990
7.0
Jeeves and Wooster
as Miss Mapleton
1990
8.1
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
as Miss Hardaker
1989
8.5
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as Alice
1989
7.3
Young Charlie Chaplin
as Sister Mills
1989
0.0
The Singing Detective
as Schoolteacher
1986
7.7
Foreign Body
as Landlady
1986
4.1
Lovejoy
as Miss Frobisher
1986
7.3
Oliver Twist
1985
5.6
Oliver Twist
as Martha
1985
5.6
Unfair Exchanges
as Teacher
1985
0.0
Chocky
as Cranky Woman
1984
0.0
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as Lucy
1984
5.2
The Weather in the Streets
as Lady Blanche
1983
3.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Receptionist
1983
7.0
Fanny Hill
as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
1983
5.3
The Tamarind Seed
as Embassy Section Head
1974
6.2
🎬
The Jazz Age
1968
0.0
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
as Miss Tillings
1965
0.0
🎬
Martin Chuzzlewit
1964
0.0
Doctor Who
as Miss Hardaker
1963
7.9
It's All Happening
as April
1963
5.0