Janet Henfrey
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.
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
as DowagerA zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of...
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EverAfter
as CelesteDanielle, a vibrant young woman is forced into servitude after the death of her father when she...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
as AliceThe wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her...
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Persuasion
as Viscountess Lady DalrympleLiving with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman...
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Bridget Jones's Baby
as Mavis EnderburyAfter breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't...
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Ms. GoldsteinAn American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a...
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Blow Dry
as Aerobics TeacherThe annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian...
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Swept from the Sea
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall...
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Mrs. Dalloway
as Miss PymClarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife...
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Dragonworld
as Miss TwittinghamA young man must risk his life to save his fire-breathing friend from the unscrupulous owner of...
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Bernard and the Genie
as Miss PurseBernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his...
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The Tamarind Seed
as Embassy Section HeadDuring a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian...
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Fanny Hill
as Lady in Intellegence Office (uncreditedHappily engaged to her handsome fiance, Charles, Fanny is soon hit with one misfortune after...
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London Road
as IvyLondon Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of...
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
as Janice WailyThe last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has...
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The Treasure Seekers
as GovernessFive motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their...
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Foreign Body
as LandladyBanerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money...
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The Weather in the Streets
as Lady BlanchePassion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs...
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Metamorphosis
as uncreditedGregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large...
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The Moonstone
as Mrs. YollandGreg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation...
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The Count of Solar
as Mlle DebierreThe true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
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Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
as Miss HardakerThe Doctor and Ace arrive at a secret military base during World War II, where an ancient evil...
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It's All Happening
as AprilTommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a...
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Stand Up, Nigel Barton
as Miss TillingsSemi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals...
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Unfair Exchanges
as TeacherJulie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that...
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Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
as The AdjudicatorAn original drama from the world of BBCtv's Doctor Who, featuring Sil, the ruthless alien...
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
as LucyA humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have...
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Chocky
as Cranky WomanMatthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a...
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National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well
as The WidowNational Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which...
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Doomwatch: Winter Angel
as JulieUniversity lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored...
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Deadly Obsession
as Kathleen "Kay" CalhaemA dramatization of a murder resulting in the conviction of businesswoman Kathleen Calhaem,...
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Doctor Who
as Mrs PittThe Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...
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Doctor Who
as Miss HardakerThe adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores...
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The Crown
as Vita Sackville-WestThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...
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Father Brown
as Vera ThimbleFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who...
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Wolf Hall
as Lady Margaret PoleEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the...
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Jeeves and Wooster
as Miss MapletonJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...
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The New Pope
as Lady BrannoxAs Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate...
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The Upper Hand
as Dorothy CooperThe Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and...
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Lovejoy
as Miss FrobisherThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as uncreditedA modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who...
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As Time Goes By
as Mrs. BaleTwo lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
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Reilly: Ace of Spies
as ReceptionistReilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...
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Attila
as PalchariaAttila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in...
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Tipping the Velvet
as Mrs. JexA tempestuous tale of love and life as a naïve girl discovers both romance and pain in the...
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The Worst Witch
as Mistress Hecketty BroomheadMildred Hubble is a young witch attending Cackles Academy. She's called the "Worst Witch"...
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The Singing Detective
as SchoolteacherTormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective...
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Tales of the Tardis
as Miss HardakerClassic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage...
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Oliver Twist
as uncreditedOliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander...
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Oliver Twist
as MarthaOliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial. It was directed by Gareth Davies, and adapted by Alexander...
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My Uncle Silas
as Aunt TibbyIn 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in...
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Young Charlie Chaplin
as Sister MillsThe challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin,...
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