Janina Faye Smigielski (born 16 April 1948) is an English actress and director.
Faye was born in Hammersmith, London, England, a daughter of Florence Louisa Jonathan and Jan Smigielski.
[2] Faye began her career as a child actress in 1956, and it includes theatre and television work in addition to many film appearances.
In 1961 she appeared on stage as Helen Keller in the William Gibson play The Miracle Worker,[3] and in 1962 she appeared in the film thrillers Don't Talk to Strange Men and The Day of the Triffids.
In 1998, she teamed up with director Paul Cotgrove and Hammer co-star Ingrid Pitt to make the short British horror film Green Fingers, a story about a spinster whose garden has strange properties with an ability to grow anything, even things that are no longer living.