Carolyn Seymour

Known for ActingBorn 1947-11-06 (age 78)Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Blue Bayou

Take Three Girls

Malcolm in the Middle

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Behind the Life of Chris Gaines

Babylon 5

Rebel Highway

Jack's Place

Quantum Leap

ER

Star Trek: Voyager

Superman: The Animated Series

Survivors

The Twilight Zone

Judging Amy

Murder, She Wrote

Masquerade

Mistress of Paradise

The Flash

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

Chicago Hope

Magnum, P.I.

Justice

Tales from the Darkside

Family Ties

The Greatest American Hero

Matlock

L.A. Law

Remington Steele

Space: 1999

Murphy's Law

Still Standing

Return of the Saint

Dark Justice

Blue Thunder

Cagney & Lacey

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Playhouse

Hart to Hart

The Assignment

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

Mr. Mom

Snoops

The Ruling Class

Steptoe & Son

Gumshoe

Red Shoe Diaries