Caroline Blakiston

Known for ActingBorn 1933-02-13 (age 93)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Children of the New Forest

Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Mallens

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Sherlock Holmes

Raffles

Poldark

The Sweeney

Return of the Jedi

Father Brown

The Caesars

Story Parade

Midsomer Murders

Rides

As Time Goes By

The Avengers

Strange Report

Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel

Mulberry

Lovejoy

Villains

Shoestring

Heartbeat

Les Misérables

The Saint

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again

Murder Most Horrid

The Line of Beauty

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Wilde Alliance

Out of the Unknown

Laurence Olivier Presents

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Scoop

Shadows of Fear

Play for Today

Sunday Bloody Sunday

The Trygon Factor

The Lie

The Champions

The Fourth Protocol

Charters and Caldicott

Emergency: Ward 10

Brass

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

Yanks

City Beneath the Sea