Movies starring Janet Henfrey

Biography: 
Janet Henfrey took English prelims at St Anne's, Oxford, after which she read history followed by a graduate year at Smith, from where she went to the RADA as part of their US intake. Since then she has had a varied career in the theatre and on film and television. The latter has included 'The Singing Detective', 'The Jewel in the Crown' and 9 series of 'As Time Goes By' with Judi Dench. She has w ...  show all 

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard | Tim Roth | CiarĂ¡n Hinds | Gary Olsen | Ewan Stewart | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | Ron Cook | Liz Smith | Emer Gillespie | Janet Henfrey | Arnie Breeveld | Tony Alleff
Directors: Peter Greenaway
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.