Caroline Blakiston
Mrs. Higgins

Caroline Blakiston trained at RADA. She has worked in repertory theatres throughout the UK where credits have included Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Helena in Look Back in Anger, Amanda in Private Lives, Hassan, Waltz of the Toreadors, Double Dealer, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Cocktail Party, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, A Suite in Two Keys, Hand Over Fist, Ripping Them Off, Laying the Ghost and Women All Over. Credits elsewhere include Coriolanus, The Wives' Excuse, Measure for Measure, and The White Devil with the RSC, Everything in the Garden, Poor Bitos, The Real Inspector Hound, Murderer, and Knots in the West End, also Particular Friendships at Hampstead (Charrington Best Actress Award), Misalliance at the Mermaid, Les Parents Terribles at the Orange Tree, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park. Tours UK: founder member of Actors Company: Millamant in The Way of the World, Ruling the Roost, Knots, Goneril in King Lear. She played Charlotta Ivanovna in The Cherry Orchard, the first English actress to perform Chekhov in Russia, in Russian, both at Taganrog (Chekhov's birthplace) and the Moscow Art Theatre. TV: The Avengers, The Saint, Wives and Daughters, The Forsyte Saga, The Caesars, The Mallens, Crown Court, The Racing Game, Not So Much A Programme, Private Schultz, Shoestring, Nanny, Life After Death, Charters and Caldicott, The Last Song, Mr Palfrey of Westminster, Brass, Miss Marple, The Refuge, Shrinks, Rides, As Time Goes By, The Grand, Children of the New Forest and Sunburn. Film: The Trygon Factor, The Magic Christian, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Yanks, Knots, The Return of the Jedi, and The Fourth Protocol.

Writing: Black Bread and Cucumber, a one woman show which she has performed throughout the UK including the National Theatre, Swan Theatre, Stratford, Hampstead, Greenwich, and the Jermyn Street Theatre; also in the Middle East, Hong Kong and various European venues, including the Moscow Art Theatre following which she won the Golden Globe (1994) - an award given annually to a foreigner who has made a special contribution to Russian Theatre.