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.
73 acting credits
Acting · 73
Midsomer Murders
1997
The Avengers
1961
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
The Saint
1962
Father Brown
2013
Heartbeat
1992
Sherlock Holmes
1984
The Sweeney
1975
Poldark
2015
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Champions
1968
Lovejoy
1986
Return of the Jedi
1983
As Time Goes By
1992
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Out of the Unknown
1965
Department S
1969
Shoestring
1979
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Harry
1993
Story Parade
1964
The Line of Beauty
2006
Raffles
1977
Emergency: Ward 10
1957
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
The Grand
1997
Wilde Alliance
1978
Strange Report
1969
Scoop
2006
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989
Shadows of Fear
1970
Brass
1983
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
1984
Sunburn
1999
The Sunday Drama
1977
The Caesars
1968
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
1987
Armchair Theatre
1956
Private Schulz
1981
Mulberry
1992
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977
The Fourth Protocol
1987
Les Misérables
1978
Villains
1972
Charters and Caldicott
1985
Children of the New Forest
1998
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994
The Magic Christian
1969
The Mallens
1979
Yanks
1979
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
City Beneath the Sea
1962
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
Coup!
2006
The Lie
1970
Rides
1992
The Trygon Factor
1966
The Last Song
1981
The Mallen Curse
1980
The Idol
1966
Knots
1975
The Mallens
1979
For Elsie
2012
Life After Death
1982
The Mallen Streak
2003
For King and Country: Out There
1963
The Last Romantic
1978
Miss A and Miss M
1983
The Mallen Secret
2008
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
1978
Mary Anning
2018
Second Childhood
1966