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
Midsomer Murders
Angela Hartley
Midsomer Murders
Hilary Compton
Midsomer Murders
Sylvia Lennard
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Julia Carstairs
Father Brown
Lady Lavinia Pryde
The Avengers
Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
The Saint
Eleanor Bastion
Sherlock Holmes
Dowager Duchess
Heartbeat
Hildy Dressler
Poldark
Aunt Agatha
Play for Today
Esther
Play for Today
Josie
Return of the Jedi
Mon Mothma
The Champions
Marion Grant
Scoop
Mrs. Quincy
The Lie
Esther
The Sweeney
Hildegarde
Les Misérables
Mme Thénardier
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
Bess Sedgwick
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Lovejoy
Miss Hemmingway
The Wednesday Play
Matilda Boff
As Time Goes By
Margaret
Yanks
Golfing friend
Department S
Kate Mortimer
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Mrs Helen Carobleat
The Idol
2nd Woman at Party
The Magic Christian
Hon. Esther Grand
Emergency: Ward 10
Murder Most Horrid
Dr. Rachel Vine
Mary Anning
Molly Anning
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Elena
For Elsie
Mama Kilov
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Rowing Wife
Shoestring
Monica
The Line of Beauty
Lady Partridge
Coup!
Margaret Thatcher
Mulberry
Adele
Story Parade
W.P.C. Anne Cunningham
The Mallens
Anna Brigmore
Knots
The pianist
Harry
Natasha Lee
Raffles
Lady Paulton
Shadows of Fear
Maureen
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
Co-Ordinator
The Fourth Protocol
Angela Berenson
Sunburn
Mrs. Armitage
Laurence Olivier Presents
Elena
City Beneath the Sea
Strange Report
Louise
The Mallen Curse
Anna Brigmore
Wilde Alliance
Elena
Brass
Lady Patience Hardacre
Private Schulz
Countess
The Caesars
Agrippina
The Mallens
Anna Brigmore
The Last Song
Charters and Caldicott
Margaret Mottram
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Dowager Duchess
The Mallen Secret
Anna Bridgmore
Rides
The Mallen Streak
The Trygon Factor
Nun
For King and Country: Out There
Nurse
The Last Romantic
Emily
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Narrator
Life After Death
Josie
Miss A and Miss M
Adult Lizzie (Narration)