Janet Henfrey

Who is Janet Henfrey?

Janet E. A. Henfrey is a British stage and television actress. 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. She had previously appeared in the Potter play Stand Up, Nigel Barton, also as a schoolteacher.

Before training at RADA, she read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, and spent a graduate year at Smith College reading History.

Other TV credits include: Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, The Jewel in the Crown, Reilly, Ace of Spies, Doctor Who, Jeeves and Wooster, Casualty, Lovejoy, One Foot in the Grave 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.

Janet Henfrey lives in Islington, north London, where she is involved with St Mary's Church, Upper Street, taking part in poetry and Bible readings for good causes.