Occupation Actress Years active 1969-present | Name Carolyn Seymour Role Actress | |
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Full Name Carolyn von Beckdendorf Movies and TV shows Similar People Peter Medak, Terry Nation, John Mackenzie, Celia Gregory, Jonathan Kaplan | ||
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Carolyn Seymour (born 6 November 1947) is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors (1975).
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Career
Born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire, England to a Russian father and an Irish mother. One of Seymour's earliest television roles was as Jenny in the BBC drama series Take Three Girls. and an early film appearance was as Zita in the film Steptoe and Son (1972) alongside Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell. Her best-known movie role remains Grace Gurney in The Ruling Class (also 1972), opposite Peter O'Toole.
She left Survivors at the end of its first series, due to disagreements with the producers over the direction the show and her character were taking. She appeared in the Space: 1999 episode "The Seance Spectre" and with Joan Collins in The Bitch (1979). She then moved to the U.S. and made numerous television appearances including Hart to Hart; Modesty Blaise; Family Ties; Cagney & Lacey; Remington Steele; Magnum, P.I.; The Twilight Zone; Murder, She Wrote; Matlock; Quantum Leap; the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Contagion", "First Contact", and "Face of the Enemy"; Civil Wars; L.A. Law; Red Shoe Diaries; the Star Trek: Voyager episodes "Cathexis" and "Persistence of Vision"; Babylon 5 and ER.
She has also contributed voice work for several Star Wars video games, portraying characters such as Shmi Skywalker and Mon Mothma. She provides the voice for the Locust Queen Myrrah in Gears of War, Dr. Karin Chakwas in the Mass Effect series and the Elder God of Water in Mortal Kombat Annihilation. She has played in audio plays by L.A. Theatre Works and The Hollywood Theater of the Ear, and recently began narrating audiobooks. From 2014, she has played Abby Grant in Big Finish Productions' Survivors series, based on the book by Terry Nation and the television series.
Personal life
Seymour married director Peter Medak in 1973. The couple divorced in 1984.
Since 2011, she has lived in Chalais (France).