Education
Street Anne"s College; Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist Smith College.
Street Anne"s College; Royal Academy of Dramatic Artist Smith College.
She is best known for playing Mistress Bale on As Time Goes By, which is still rerun in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service stations, and for her role as the schoolteacher in the British Broadcasting Corporation Dennis Potter serial The Singing Detective (1986). She appeared in an episode of Father Brown (The Daughters of Jerusalem) on Public Broadcasting Service (2014) as Vera Thimble a victim of murder.
Before training at RADA, she read English at Street Anne"s College, Oxford, and spent a graduate year at Smith College reading History.
Other television credits include: Victoria Wood As Seen On television (1985). 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. 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").
Janet Henfrey lives in Islington, north London.
She had previously appeared in the Potter play Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965), also as a schoolteacher.
She is a member of the Labour party and a trustee of the International Performers Aid Trust.