Janet Henfrey

Janet E. A. Henfrey[1] (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.

Janet Henfrey
Born (1935-08-16) 16 August 1935
Alma materSt Anne's College, Oxford
Smith College
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
OccupationActress
Years active1963–present

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.[2]

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
1963It's All HappeningApril
1974The Tamarind SeedEmbassy Section Head
1981RedsJail GuardUncredited
Mark Gertler Fragments of a BiographyLady Ottoline Morrell
1983Fanny HillLady in Intelligence OfficeUncredited
1985She'll Be Wearing Pink PyjamasLucy
1986Lady JaneHousekeeper
Foreign BodyLandlady
1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her LoverAlice
1990The Fool
1991Bernard and the GenieMiss PurseTV movie
1994DragonworldMiss Twittingham
A Pin for the ButterflyMrs Veverka
1997Mrs DallowayMiss Pym
Swept from the SeaMrs. Rigby
The Man Who Knew Too LittleMs Goldstein
1998Les MisérablesMadame Gilot
Ever AfterCeleste
Jilting JoeMiss Doughty
1999An Ideal HusbandMiss Prism
2000The Nine Lives of Tomas KatzJanice Wailey
2001Blow DryAerobics Teacher
2002 Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeMrs Robey
2006The OmenMrs Horton
2009Sezon tumanovMary
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends WellThe Widow
2012MetamorphosisThe Cleaning Lady
2014Father BrownVera ThimbleEpisode: "The Daughters of Jerusalem"
Mr. TurnerJanetUncredited
2015London RoadIvy
2016Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesDowager
Bridget Jones's BabyMavis Enderbury
2019Sil and the Devil Seeds of ArodorThe AdjudicatorTV Movie

References

  1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  2. "Janet Henfrey". IMDb. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
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