Caroline Blakiston
Acting
- Born:
- 1933-02-13
- Place of birth:
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
Biography
Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. Best known for her role in the television comedy series Brass, she has also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science-fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the 1960s she appeared in three episodes of The Avengers as well a number of ITC productions such as The Saint and the 1969 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "Never Trust a Ghost". She appeared to great acclaim as Marjorie Ferrar in the BBC Television adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967. In 1977 she appeared in Raffles as Lady Paulton, and also in Murder Most English as Helen Carobleat. In 1986 Blakiston played the villain Bess Sedgwick, opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Marple, in "At Bertram's Hotel", made by the BBC and shown on the PBS series Mystery in the U.S. She also appeared as Lionel Hardcastle's ex-wife in an episode of As Time Goes By. She and Geoffrey Palmer (Lionel) had previously played estranged spouses a decade earlier in Carla Lane's series The Last Song.
Known For
Filmography
Mary Anning
Poldark
Father Brown
For Elsie
Scoop
Coup!
The Line of Beauty
Sunburn
Children of the New Forest
The Grand
Midsomer Murders
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Harry
Heartbeat
Mulberry
Rides
As Time Goes By
Murder Most Horrid
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Comic Relief
The Fourth Protocol
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Lovejoy
Charters and Caldicott
Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Miss A and Miss M
Return of the Jedi
Brass
Life After Death
The Last Song
Private Schulz
Shoestring
Yanks
The Mallens
Les Misérables
The Last Romantic
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Wilde Alliance
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
The Sunday Drama
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Raffles
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Sweeney
Knots
Then and Now
Villains
Wives and Daughters
Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Lie
Play for Today
Shadows of Fear
The Magic Christian
Strange Report
Department S
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Champions
The Caesars
The Trygon Factor
Second Childhood
The Idol
Out of the Unknown
The Wednesday Play
Story Parade
No Cloak - No Dagger
For King and Country: Out There
City Beneath the Sea
The Saint
The Avengers
Emergency: Ward 10
Armchair Theatre