Caroline Blakiston

Acting

Born February 13, 1933, 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

• 2018Mary Anning — Molly Anning
• Poldark — Aunt Agatha
• Father Brown — Lady Lavinia Pryde
• 2012For Elsie — Mama Kilov
• 2006Coup! — Margaret Thatcher
• 2006Scoop — Mrs. Quincy
• The Line of Beauty — Lady Partridge
• Sunburn — Mrs. Armitage
• Children of the New Forest — Aunt Judith
• Midsomer Murders — Angela Hartley, Hilary Compton, Sylvia Lennard
• The Grand — Isobel Crawford
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Dowager Duchess
• Harry — Natasha Lee
• As Time Goes By — Margaret
• Heartbeat — Hildy Dressler
• Mulberry — Adele
• Rides
• Murder Most Horrid — Dr Rachel Vine
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Julia Carstairs
• Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
• Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel — Bess Sedgwick
• 1987The Fourth Protocol — Angela Berenson
• Lovejoy — Miss Hemmingway
• Charters and Caldicott — Margaret Mottram
• Mr. Palfrey of Westminster — Co-Ordinator
• Sherlock Holmes — Dowager Duchess
• Brass — Lady Patience Hardacre
• 1983Miss A and Miss M — Adult Lizzie (Narration)
• 1983Return of the Jedi — Mon Mothma
• 1982Life After Death — Josie
• Private Schulz — Countess
• The Last Song
• Shoestring — Monica
• The Mallens — Anna Brigmore
• 1979Yanks — Golfing friend
• 1978Les Misérables — Mme Thénardier
• 1978Saturday, Sunday, Monday — Elena
• 1978The Last Romantic — Emily
• 1978Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man — Narrator
• Wilde Alliance — Elena
• Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle — Mrs Helen Carobleat
• Raffles — Lady Paulton
• The Sunday Drama — Deborah
• Laurence Olivier Presents — Elena
• 1975Knots — The pianist
• The Sweeney — Hildegarde
• Then and Now — Erica
• Villains — Rene
• 1971Sunday Bloody Sunday — Rowing Wife
• Wives and Daughters — Lady Harriet
• Play for Today — Esther, Josie
• Shadows of Fear — Maureen
• 1970The Lie — Esther
• Department S — Kate Mortimer
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Gribiche
• Strange Report — Louise
• 1969The Magic Christian — Hon. Esther Grand
• The Caesars — Agrippina
• The Champions — Marion Grant
• 1966Second Childhood — Dr. Odile Keppler
• 1966The Idol — 2nd Woman at Party
• 1966The Trygon Factor — Nun
• Out of the Unknown — Dr. Odile Keppler
• Story Parade — W.P.C. Anne Cunningham
• The Wednesday Play — Matilda Boff
• 1963For King and Country: Out There — Nurse
• No Cloak - No Dagger — Pat Penmore
• City Beneath the Sea
• The Saint — Eleanor Bastion
• The Avengers — Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
• Emergency: Ward 10
• Armchair Theatre — Jessa