Blakeney was born in Newport, Kentucky[2][1] and attended the Cincinnati School of Expression.

[citation needed] In the early 1910s, she acted with the Pittsfield (Massachusetts) Stock Company.

)[7] On television, she played the housekeeper in the syndicated medical drama Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal (1955–1956)[8] and guest-starred in "The Mothers," a 1957 episode of the CBS situation comedy Mr. Adams and Eve, and "Mr. Tutt," also known as "Strange Counsel," a 1958 episode of Colgate Theatre.

[citation needed] Blakeney died at the age of 65 due to complications of cancer on October 21, 1959, in Encino, California.

She was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale in California.