Caroline Blakiston
Actor
Born February 13, 1933 in Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Mary Anning
Molly Anning
Poldark
Aunt Agatha
Father Brown
Lady Lavinia Pryde
For Elsie
Mama Kilov
The Mallen Secret
Anna Bridgmore
Scoop
Mrs. Quincy
Coup!
Margaret Thatcher
The Line of Beauty
Lady Partridge
Sunburn
Mrs. Armitage
Children of the New Forest
Aunt Judith
The Grand
Isobel Crawford
Midsomer Murders
Angela Hartley
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Dowager Duchess
Heartbeat
Hildy Dressler
Mulberry
Adele
As Time Goes By
Margaret
Murder Most Horrid
Dr Rachel Vine
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Julia Carstairs
The Fourth Protocol
Angela Berenson
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Bess Sedgwick
Lovejoy
Miss Hemmingway
Charters and Caldicott
Margaret Mottram
Sherlock Holmes
Dowager Duchess
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Co-Ordinator
Miss A and Miss M
Adult Lizzie (Narration)
Return of the Jedi
Mon Mothma
Brass
Lady Patience Hardacre
Life After Death
Josie
The Last Song
Private Schulz
Countess
The Mallen Curse
Anna Brigmore
Shoestring
Monica
Yanks
Golfing friend
The Mallen Streak
The Mallens
Anna Brigmore
The Mallens
Anna Brigmore
Les Misérables
Mme Thénardier
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Narrator
Wilde Alliance
Elena
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Elena
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Mrs Helen Carobleat
Raffles
Lady Paulton
Laurence Olivier Presents
Elena
The Sweeney
Hildegarde
Villains
Rene
Wives and Daughters
Lady Harriet
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rowing Wife
The Lie
Esther
Play for Today
Esther
Shadows of Fear
Maureen
The Magic Christian
Hon. Esther Grand
Strange Report
Louise
Department S
Kate Mortimer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Gribiche
The Champions
Marion Grant
The Caesars
Agrippina
The Trygon Factor
Nun
Second Childhood
Dr. Odile Keppler
The Idol
2nd Woman at Party
Out of the Unknown
Dr. Odile Keppler
The Wednesday Play
Matilda Boff
City Beneath the Sea
The Saint
Eleanor Bastion
The Avengers
Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
Emergency: Ward 10
Armchair Theatre
Jessa