Carolyn Seymour (born 6 November 1947) is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors. Born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire, to a Russian father and an Irish mother. One of her earliest television roles was as Jenny in the BBC drama series Take Three Girls. and an early film appearance was as Zita in the film Steptoe and Son (1972) alongside Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell. Her best-known movie role remains Grace Gurney in The Ruling Class (also 1972), opposite Peter O'Toole. She left Survivors at the end of its first series, due to disagreements with the producers over the direction the show and her character were taking. She appeared in the Space: 1999 episode "The Seance Spectre", and with Joan Collins in The Bitch. She then moved to the United States and made numerous television appearances including Hart to Hart, Modesty Blaise, Family Ties, Cagney & Lacey, Remington Steele, Magnum, P.I., The Twilight Zone, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Quantum Leap; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Civil Wars, L.A. Law, Red Shoe Diaries, Star Trek: Voyager, and ER. She has also contributed voice work for several Star Wars video games, portraying characters such as Shmi Skywalker and Mon Mothma. She provides the voice for the Locust Queen Myrrah in Gears of War, Dr. Karin Chakwas in the Mass Effect series and the Elder God of Water in Mortal Kombat Annihilation. She has played in audio plays by L.A. Theatre Works and The Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and recently began narrating audiobooks. Since 2014, she has played Abby Grant in Big Finish Productions' Survivors series, based on the book by Terry Nation and the television series. From 2014 onwards, she has voiced Bierce in Dark Deception.

Filmography

• 2007Hard Four — Maxine De Winter
• 2003I Witness — Lady Anne
• 2002Ablaze — Vivian Sims
• Still Standing — Beverly Gerber
• Malcolm in the Middle — Nina
• 1999Behind the Life of Chris Gaines — Carolyn Johnns-Gaines
• Judging Amy — Atty. Marla Rosen
• 1997Interruptions — Malcolm's Mother
• 1997Mortal Kombat: Annihilation — Elder God #2
• Superman: The Animated Series — Kala In-Ze (voice)
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest — Aleutian Woman (voice) / Mother (voice)
• 1995Congo — Eleanor Romy
• Star Trek: Voyager — Mrs. Templeton
• Babylon 5 — Senator Crosby
• Chicago Hope — Board Member
• ER — Dr. Skoft
• Rebel Highway — Evelyn Turnbull
• 1994Reform School Girl — Mrs. Evelyn Turnbull
• Jack's Place
• Red Shoe Diaries — Choreographer
• Dark Justice
• 1990Blue Bayou — Raleigh McMain
• 1990Midnight Cabaret — Orion
• The Flash — Jocelyn Weller
• Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story — Dorothy Difrasso
• Quantum Leap — Zoey, Priscilla Stoltz
• Snoops — Antiques Clerk
• Murphy's Law
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Subcommander Taris, Mirasta Yale, Commander Toreth
• 1986Condor — Rachel Hawkins
• L.A. Law — Vivian Askoff
• Matlock — Christina Harrison Ward, Dr. Vanessa Sedgwick, Iris Vogel
• Otherworld — Prime Manager
• The Twilight Zone — (segment "Ye Gods")
• Blue Thunder — Helen
• Murder, She Wrote — Alice Montrose, Pauline Constable, Nellie Ruddy
• Tales from the Darkside — Aisha Candisha (voice), Andrea Caldwell / Director
• 1983Girls of the White Orchid — Madame Mori
• Masquerade
• 1983Mr. Mom — Eve
• 1983The Last Ninja — Lydia
• 1983The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair — The Actress
• Cagney & Lacey
• Cassie & Co. — Jeanne
• Family Ties — Lorraine Ferrar
• 1982Modesty Blaise — Debbie DeFarge
• Remington Steele — Shelby Haines
• 1981Mistress of Paradise — Adele
• The Greatest American Hero — Kris Peterson
• 1981Zorro, The Gay Blade — Dolores
• Magnum, P.I. — Elizabeth, Lady Ashley, Leeann
• Hart to Hart
• 1979The Bitch — Polly Logan
• Return of the Saint — Lady Greer Stevens
• 1978The Odd Job — Angie
• 1977The Assignment — Danica
• Space: 1999 — Eva
• Survivors — Abby Grant
• 1975The Prodigal Daughter — Christine Smith
• 1973Yellow Dog — Della
• 1972Steptoe & Son — Zita Steptoe
• 1972The Greeks and Their Gifts — Angela Harrison
• 1972The Ruling Class — Grace Shelley
• 1971Gumshoe — Alison Wyatt
• Justice — Joy Mostyn
• 1971Unman, Wittering and Zigo — Silvia
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Vicky
• Take Three Girls — Jenny
• ITV Playhouse — Angela Harrison

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self