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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 13, 1933
Place of Birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Caroline G. Blakiston
Caroline Blakiston
1.8 Popularity
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
Credits
Mary Anning
as Molly Anning
2018
0.0
Poldark
as Aunt Agatha
2015
7.8
Father Brown
as Lady Lavinia Pryde
2013
7.6
For Elsie
as Mama Kilov
2012
0.0
The Mallen Secret
as Anna Bridgmore
2008
0.0
Scoop
as Mrs. Quincy
2006
6.6
🎬
Coup!
as Margaret Thatcher
2006
0.0
The Line of Beauty
as Lady Partridge
2006
6.3
The Mallen Streak
2003
0.0
Sunburn
as Mrs. Armitage
1999
3.5
Midsomer Murders
as Angela Hartley
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Hilary Compton
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Sylvia Lennard
1997
7.5
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
as Dowager Duchess
1994
8.5
🎬
Harry
as Natasha Lee
1993
3.5
Heartbeat
as Hildy Dressler
1992
7.1
Mulberry
as Adele
1992
7.2
🎬
Rides
1992
6.0
As Time Goes By
as Margaret
1992
7.5
Murder Most Horrid
as Dr. Rachel Vine
1991
6.8
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989
6.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Julia Carstairs
1989
8.2
The Fourth Protocol
as Angela Berenson
1987
6.3
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
as Bess Sedgwick
1987
7.3
Lovejoy
as Miss Hemmingway
1986
7.3
Charters and Caldicott
as Margaret Mottram
1985
6.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Dowager Duchess
1984
8.1
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
as Co-Ordinator
1984
5.0
Miss A and Miss M
as Adult Lizzie (Narration)
1983
0.0
Return of the Jedi
as Mon Mothma
1983
7.9
Brass
as Lady Patience Hardacre
1983
5.8
Life After Death
as Josie
1982
0.0
The Last Song
1981
0.0
Private Schulz
as Countess
1981
4.8
The Mallen Curse
as Anna Brigmore
1980
0.0
Shoestring
as Monica
1979
6.8
Yanks
as Golfing friend
1979
5.9
The Mallens
as Anna Brigmore
1979
0.0
The Mallens
as Anna Brigmore
1979
5.0
Les Misérables
as Mme Thénardier
1978
7.1
🎬
The Last Romantic
as Emily
1978
0.0
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
as Narrator
1978
10.0
Wilde Alliance
as Elena
1978
5.5
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as Elena
1978
0.0
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as Mrs Helen Carobleat
1977
5.5
Raffles
as Lady Paulton
1977
8.0
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Elena
1976
7.0
The Sweeney
as Hildegarde
1975
7.8
🎬
Knots
as The pianist
1975
2.0
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Rowing Wife
1971
6.6
The Lie
as Esther
1970
6.0
Play for Today
as Esther
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Josie
1970
6.3
Shadows of Fear
as Maureen
1970
6.0
The Magic Christian
as Hon. Esther Grand
1969
5.6
Strange Report
as Louise
1969
6.5
Department S
as Kate Mortimer
1969
5.0
The Champions
as Marion Grant
1968
6.2
The Caesars
as Agrippina
1968
7.8
The Trygon Factor
as Nun
1966
6.5
The Idol
as 2nd Woman at Party
1966
4.4
The Wednesday Play
as Matilda Boff
1964
4.5
🎬
Story Parade
as W.P.C. Anne Cunningham
1964
8.0
🎬
For King and Country: Out There
as Nurse
1963
0.0
City Beneath the Sea
1962
6.0
The Saint
as Eleanor Bastion
1962
7.4
The Avengers
as Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
1961
7.7
Emergency: Ward 10
1957
5.3