Caroline Blakiston
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 13, 1933
- Place of birth
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
Movies with Caroline Blakiston
- Return of the Jedi 1983 · ★ 7.9
- Scoop 2006 · ★ 6.6
- The Fourth Protocol 1987 · ★ 6.3
- Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 · ★ 6.5
- Yanks 1979 · ★ 5.9
- The Magic Christian 1969 · ★ 5.8
- Les Misérables 1978 · ★ 7.1
- The Trygon Factor 1966 · ★ 6.5
- The Idol 1966 · ★ 4.9
- Knots 1975 · ★ 4.0
- The Lie 1970 · ★ 6.5
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday 1978 · ★ 7.0
- Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man 1978 · ★ 10.0
- Miss A and Miss M 1983
- Coup! 2006
- Mary Anning 2018
- For Elsie 2012
- Life After Death 1982
- The Last Romantic 1978
- For King and Country: Out There 1963
- Second Childhood 1966