According to IMDb, Caroline Blakiston was born on February 13, 1933 in Chelsea, London, England. She is an actress known for her roles in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Brass (1983) and Scoop (2006). She has worked as an actress since the age of eight and her other credits include The Grand, As Time Goes By, Rides, and the film The Fourth Protocol. She has performed her one-woman show, Black Bread and Cucumber, all over the world. Blakiston plays Angela Hartley in the Season VIII episode "Bantling Boy." In this installment, members of a syndicate that own a winning racehorse are being battered to death one by one, and Barnaby and Scott must unravel an aristocratic family’s secrets to find the killer. Fifty-something Angela is the widowed mistress of Bantling Hall. Here, Blackiston talks about her character on Midsomer Murders.

“Angela believes she was born into the highest strata of society. Her family has a long history of owning property and titles and it never occurs to her that there is anything wrong with having privilege. She feels she has power over other people, because of her background.

“She has a strong attachment to her values and the values of the family. She was abused by her husband and although she minds this very much, she hides it because in her society they are used to covering their feelings from the world. It’s a very conservative way of looking at the world, which restricts her and those around her. She is pretty flawed.”

Sadly, Angela’s attitude is out of step with her financial situation. “Her husband was a gambler and he lost the family fortune. Her clothes are a bit moth-eaten and she grows vegetables in order to make ends meet, because she doesn’t want to lose the house. She adores her brother Geoffrey – he behaves like a child and she protects him and keeps him safe, until a little boy turns up and opens a can of worms.”