Caroline Blakiston
Born: 1933-02-13 in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2018
- Mary Anning as Molly Anning
2015
- Poldark as Aunt Agatha
2013
- Father Brown as Lady Lavinia Pryde
2012
- For Elsie as Mama Kilov
2008
- The Mallen Secret as Anna Bridgmore
2006
- The Line of Beauty as Lady Partridge
- Scoop as Mrs. Quincy
- Coup! as Margaret Thatcher
2003
1999
- Sunburn as Mrs. Armitage
1998
- Children of the New Forest as Aunt Judith
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Angela Hartley
- The Grand as Isobel Crawford
1994
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes as Dowager Duchess
1993
- Harry as Natasha Lee
1992
- Heartbeat as Hildy Dressler
- As Time Goes By as Margaret
- Mulberry as Adele
- Rides
1991
- Murder Most Horrid as Dr Rachel Vine
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Julia Carstairs
- Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1987
- Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel as Bess Sedgwick
- The Fourth Protocol as Angela Berenson
1986
- Lovejoy as Miss Hemmingway
1985
- Charters and Caldicott as Margaret Mottram
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Dowager Duchess
- Mr. Palfrey of Westminster as Co-Ordinator
1983
- Return of the Jedi as Mon Mothma
- Brass as Lady Patience Hardacre
- Miss A and Miss M as Adult Lizzie (Narration)
1982
- Life After Death as Josie
1981
- Private Schulz as Countess
- The Last Song
1980
- The Mallen Curse as Anna Brigmore
1979
- Shoestring as Monica
- Yanks as Golfing friend
- The Mallens as Anna Brigmore
- The Mallens as Anna Brigmore
1978
- Wilde Alliance as Elena
- Les Misérables as Mme Thénardier
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday as Elena
- Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man as Narrator
- The Last Romantic as Emily
1977
- Raffles as Lady Paulton
- The Sunday Drama as Deborah
- Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle as Mrs Helen Carobleat
1976
- Laurence Olivier Presents as Elena
1975
- The Sweeney as Hildegarde
- Knots as The pianist
1972
- Villains as Rene
1971
- Sunday Bloody Sunday as Rowing Wife
1970
- Play for Today as Esther
- Shadows of Fear as Maureen
- The Lie as Esther
1969
- Department S as Kate Mortimer
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Gribiche
- Strange Report as Louise
- The Magic Christian as Hon. Esther Grand
1968
- The Champions as Marion Grant
- The Caesars as Agrippina
1966
- The Trygon Factor as Nun
- The Idol as 2nd Woman at Party
- Second Childhood as Dr. Odile Keppler
1965
- Out of the Unknown as Dr. Odile Keppler
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Matilda Boff
- Story Parade as W.P.C. Anne Cunningham
1963
- For King and Country: Out There as Nurse
1962
- The Saint as Eleanor Bastion
- City Beneath the Sea
1961
- The Avengers as Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
1957
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Jessa