---
name: "Janet Bartley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/janet-bartley"
fi1m_id: "janet-bartley"
imdb_id: "nm0055079"
tmdb_id: 52814
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:47:48.783075+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Janet Bartley

## Identity

Janet Bartley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janet-bartley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** janet-bartley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0055079
- **TMDB ID:** 52814
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52814

Actor. Born in Trelawny, Jamaica.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52814

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Harder They Come*](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Janet Bartley was a Jamaican actress. She played Elsa, the love interest of the protagonist, in Perry Henzell’s film *The Harder They Come* (1972).

Born in Trelawny, she began acting in Jamaican Festival competitions in the late 1960s and appeared in the 1970 pantomime *Music Boy*. She married cameraman David MacDonald, who worked on the film, and moved to England in the mid-1970s. There she appeared in the play *For Yesterday* and on ITV in *The Road Runner* and *No, Mama, No*.

Bartley’s other screen credits include *Bisi, Daughter of the River* (1977), *Empire Road* (1978–79) and *ITV Playhouse* (1977–79). She died in London in the 1980s.

*Sources: imdb.com, jamaicaobserver.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Harder They Come* (1972), Fi1m 80, as Elsa — [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Black Christmas* (1977), as Dolly
- *Roadrunner* (1977), as Irene
- *Home Sweet India* (1976), as Ethel
- *Centre Play* (1973), series, as Ethel
- *The Harder They Come* (1972), as Elsa — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-harder-they-come.md)

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