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1947-10-01 · Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England · Female

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Carolyn Seymour (born 6 November 1947) is an English actress, best known for playing Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors (1975) and Queen Myrrah in the Gears of War franchise.

Career

She was born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire to an Estonian father of Russian descent and an Irish mother. One of her early 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 (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 United States and made numerous appearances on television shows, including Hart to Hart; Modesty Blaise; Family Ties; Cagney & Lacey; Remington Steele; Magnum, P.I.; The Twilight Zone; Murder, She Wrote; Matlock; Quantum Leap; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Civil Wars; L.A. Law; Red Shoe Diaries; Star Trek: Voyager; and ER.

She has contributed voice work for several Star Wars video games, playing characters such as Shmi Skywalker and Mon Mothma. She provides the voice for the Myrrah, Queen of the Locust Horde 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 Hollywood Theater of the Ear as well as narrated audiobooks.

In 2014, she reprised the role of Abby Grant in Big Finish Productions' Survivors series, based on the book by Terry Nation and the television series. She has played various roles for the company, and in April 2021, it released a career retrospective interview with her titled Carolyn Seymour in Conversation.

Since 2014, she has voiced Bierce in Dark Deception.

Personal life

Seymour married director Peter Medak in 1973. The couple had two children and divorced in 1984.

Carolyn Seymour at the Internet Broadway Database

Interview with Carolyn Seymour (Abby Grant) for Survivors (1975 TV series)