Caroline Blakiston Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Movies, Poldark, Star Wars, Miss Marple

BIOGRAPHY OF CAROLINE BLAKISTON

Caroline Blakiston is an English actress best known for her appearance in the comedy television series Brass and the movie Star Wars Return of the Jedi.

CAROLINE BLAKISTON AGE

Blakiston was born on February 13, 1933 in Chelsea, London, United Kingdom. She turns 86 in 2019

CAROLINE BLAKISTON FAMILY

She is the daughter of Noel Blakiston and Georgiana Blakiston. Her siblings are not known

CAROLINE BLAKISTON HUSBAND

She was married to actor Russell Hunter. The pair met while performing in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park. They married in 1970 but later divorced after having a son and daughter together

CAROLINE BLAKISTON POLDARK

Blakiston was cast as Aunt Agatha Poldark in series 1-4 of the British historical period drama television series ‘Poldark’

CAROLINE BLAKISTON STAR WARS

Blakiston was cast as Mon Mothma, co-founder and leader of the Rebel Alliance, in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.

Photo by Caroline Blakiston

CAROLINE BLAKISTON MISS MARPLE

Marple was cast as Bess Sedgwick in episode: ‘At Bertram’s Hotel’ of the British TV series ‘Miss Marple’

CAROLINE BLAKISTON OVER TIME

She was cast as Lionel Hardcastle’s ex-wife in the episode of As Time Goes By

CAROLINE BLAKISTON MIDSOMER MURDERS

Murders cast as Sylvia Lennard in episode: ‘The Village That Raised from the Dead’ of British crime drama ‘Midsomer Murders’

FILMS BY CAROLINE BLAKISTON

POLDARK SERIES 3 | INTERVIEW OF CAROLINE BLAKISTON (AUNT AGGIE) | TRIP TO POLDARK

CAROLINE BLAKISTON ON LEAVING POLDARK AND HOW AUNT AGATHA WAS INSPIRED BY GOGGLEBOX

Source: radiotimes.com

Poldark fans had to say a sad goodbye to Aunt Agatha on Sunday night – the fabulous leading Cornish lady played by the most fabulous Caroline Blakiston.

“She was a Poldark, a much-loved aunt…a great lady and a rare wit” was Aidan Turner’s Ross verdict in the episode. And it’s hard to disagree.

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His death was watched in a very moving way, following a bad argument with the hideous George Warleggan, and strangely plausible.

Plausible, as Blakiston received medical advice on the best way to exhale, we can reveal. She tells RadioTimes.com that 15 years ago she contracted tuberculosis while performing on stage and during treatment her ‘kind doctor’ explained to her how the macabre process of dying really happens .

“He said it was all about breathing,” Blakiston says. “Breathing becomes less and less deep, your lungs stop being strong at the bottom, so you can’t take long breaths, so you can’t say long sentences, and then you kind of go ‘feel’, it’s kind of a ‘puff’ and that’s how I did it.

Blakiston, a former Star Wars star (see below for more) is now 84 and says she found filming the scene emotional — and a bit emotional.

“I’m much older now and probably much closer to my own demise, which doesn’t concern me at all. I talk about it a lot.

“I come from a family where on the whole women live longer. My mother was 92 and I have an 87-year-old sister, and we don’t think about it. I don’t feel so old yet because I exercise a lot. I don’t want to moan when I sit down or stand up, that’s what I feel the most, don’t make that moan. ‘

For the past three series, Aunt Agatha has been a delight to Poldark fans. Witty, wise, tarot card player, Blakiston made the role his own and delivered some humdingers – especially to his nemesis George Warleggan.

“When it started I didn’t have much at all, I was the old lady in the background grumbling a bit, and I think they just sensed there was some mileage to make this old lady the only link with the past. And Debbie Horsfield decided she was worth building and writing and that benefited me a lot.

“I feel very happy and it’s been great fun getting to know her and taking her on this journey and learning the tarot cards, and one of the things that excites me is that they don’t didn’t make her a drunken old lady witch and I really like that she kind of has her wits about him.

One of Blakiston’s inspirations for his witty, pitch-perfect performance comes from two unlikely sources: Greek drama and, uh, Channel 4’s glasses box.

“I see Agatha as the chorus of ancient Greece commentating on the drama, but she’s also like a Gogglebox character in some ways because she provides that action guidance,” she says.

“I discovered Gogglebox this year and it’s been one of the joys of my life. I think it’s wonderful and I love all the people there. I think of Gogglebox when I do Aunt Agatha and I think ‘they watch it and I have to do it well for the Gogglebox people because they really, really watch it and you have to live up to it’.”

You may also have noticed that Aunt Agatha always seems to eat the same thing – some sort of oatmeal-like substance that she methodically eats during several of her scenes. It was Blakiston’s idea.

“I don’t want to chew chicken and lettuce meat and I said, ‘you know what, her teeth aren’t shiny, she’d probably be very happy with the slops’. And also when George takes over the house and stuff, he hates her so much, he never really allows her to have good food. I think she’s hoping she’ll starve maybe, I don’t know…so I have this wonderful porridge with every meal. »

Oddly enough, Blakiston absolutely adores Jack Farthing, the actor who plays George. Despite their on-screen fight, when the cameras are off, they are good friends.

“He’s wonderful and such a good actor, one of the nicest people you’ve ever met and the best person to work with. It’s this thing of playing a really monstrous character like Iago or something and he’s having fun with it. But he is a sweet, gentle, gentle person. ‘

Speaking of cool people, you can’t meet Blakiston without talking about Star Wars. In addition to many other stage and screen roles (remember her alongside Timothy West in the 1980s comedy Brass?), she is also known for playing Mon Mothma, the leader of the Rebel Alliance in Return of the Jedi – perhaps the most righteous character in canon.

Blakiston still attends Star Wars conventions and she admits fans are sometimes too surprised to see “an old lady” sitting under a poster of the character from over 30 years ago. But she loves the fans even if that means she has to be on her best behavior.

“At Star Wars conventions you never see bad behavior of any kind because they’re there to celebrate something about good and evil and evil doesn’t win. And you are in a sort of sublime environment where with Mon Mothma it is “Dark side Nil”. I have to be ‘Dark Side Nil’, talking to these people. ‘

Which she lets out a chuckle that Aunt Agatha would be proud of.