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
Cruella
(2021)
Society Maven
EverAfter
(1998)
Celeste
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(2016)
Dowager
Bridget Jones's Baby
(2016)
Mavis Enderbury
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989)
Alice
Persuasion
(2022)
Viscountess Lady Dalrymple
Blow Dry
(2001)
Aerobics Teacher
The Man Who Knew Too Little
(1997)
Ms. Goldstein
Swept from the Sea
(1998)
Mrs. Dalloway
(1997)
Miss Pym
Dragonworld
(1994)
Miss Twittingham
Full Filmography
Acting
It's All Happening
(1963)
April
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
(1965)
Miss Tillings
The Tamarind Seed
(1974)
Embassy Section Head
Fanny Hill
(1983)
Lady in Intellegence Office (uncredited
The Weather in the Streets
(1983)
Lady Blanche
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
(1984)
Lucy
Chocky
(1984)
Cranky Woman
Unfair Exchanges
(1985)
Teacher
Foreign Body
(1986)
Landlady
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(1989)
Alice
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
(1989)
Miss Hardaker
Bernard and the Genie
(1991)
Miss Purse
The Count of Solar
(1992)
Mlle Debierre
Dragonworld
(1994)
Miss Twittingham
The Moonstone
(1996)
Mrs. Yolland
The Treasure Seekers
(1996)
Governess
The Man Who Knew Too Little
(1997)
Ms. Goldstein
Mrs. Dalloway
(1997)
Miss Pym
Dual Balls
(1997)
EverAfter
(1998)
Celeste
Swept from the Sea
(1998)
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
(1999)
Julie
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
(2000)
Janice Waily
Blow Dry
(2001)
Aerobics Teacher
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
(2009)
The Widow
Fairytale of London Town
(2010)
Elsie Grindell
Metamorphosis
(2012)
London Road
(2015)
Ivy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(2016)
Dowager
Bridget Jones's Baby
(2016)
Mavis Enderbury
Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
(2019)
The Adjudicator
Cruella
(2021)
Society Maven
Persuasion
(2022)
Viscountess Lady Dalrymple