Caroline Blakiston

Caroline Blakiston

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: Acting

Born: Chelsea, London, England, UK, 1933-02-13

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Idol	2nd Woman at Party	49
2	1966	The Trygon Factor	Nun	65
3	1969	The Magic Christian	Hon. Esther Grand	57
4	1970	The Lie	Esther	60
5	1971	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Rowing Wife	66
6	1975	Knots	The pianist	20
7	1978	Saturday, Sunday, Monday	Elena	0
8	1978	Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man	Narrator	100
9	1978	Les Misérables	Mme Thénardier	72
10	1979	The Mallens	Anna Brigmore	0
11	1979	Yanks	Golfing friend	59
12	1980	The Mallen Curse	Anna Brigmore	0
13	1982	Life After Death	Josie	0
14	1983	Return of the Jedi	Mon Mothma	79
15	1983	Miss A and Miss M	Adult Lizzie (Narration)	0
16	1987	The Fourth Protocol	Angela Berenson	63
17	2003	The Mallen Streak		0
18	2006	Coup!	Margaret Thatcher	0
19	2006	Scoop	Mrs. Quincy	66
20	2008	The Mallen Secret	Anna Bridgmore	0
21	2012	For Elsie	Mama Kilov	0
22	2018	Mary Anning	Molly Anning	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Emergency – Ward 10		50
2	1961	The Avengers	Cynthia Wentworth-Howe	77
3	1962	The Saint	Eleanor Bastion	73
4	1962	City Beneath the Sea		60
5	1964	The Wednesday Play	Matilda Boff	45
6	1968	The Caesars	Agrippina	78
7	1968	The Champions	Marion Grant	61
8	1969	Department S	Kate Mortimer	49
9	1969	Strange Report	Louise	65
10	1970	Shadows of Fear	Maureen	60
11	1970	Play for Today	Esther	63
12	1970	Play for Today	Josie	63
13	1975	The Sweeney	Hildegarde	77
14	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Elena	70
15	1977	Raffles	Lady Paulton	80
16	1977	Murder Most English	Mrs. Helen Carobleat	55
17	1979	The Mallens		50
18	1979	Shoestring		68
19	1981	Private Schulz	Countess	58
20	1981	The Last Song		0
21	1983	Brass		64
22	1984	Mr. Palfrey of Westminster		50
23	1984	Sherlock Holmes	Dowager Duchess	81
24	1985	Charters and Caldicott	Margaret Mottram	60
25	1986	Lovejoy	Miss Hemmingway	73
26	1987	Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel	Bess Sedgwick	73
27	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Julia Carstairs	82
28	1989	Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again		60
29	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Dr. Rachel Vine	66
30	1992	As Time Goes By	Margaret	76
31	1992	Rides		60
32	1992	Mulberry	Adele	72
33	1992	Heartbeat	Hildy Dressler	71
34	1997	Midsomer Murders	Angela Hartley	75
35	1997	Midsomer Murders	Hilary Compton	75
36	1997	Midsomer Murders	Sylvia Lennard	75
37	1999	Sunburn	Mrs. Armitage	40
38	2006	The Line of Beauty	Lady Partridge	65
39	2013	Father Brown	Lady Lavinia Pryde	75
40	2015	Poldark	Aunt Agatha	78

Caroline Blakiston

Film

Television