Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater

Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is an Anglo-Irish actress, author and filmmaker. She portrayed Helen Herriot (née Alderson) in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books All Creatures Great and Small, which led to her receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985. Drinkwater is the daughter of the bandleader and agent, Peter Regan (born Peter Albert Drinkwater) and Irish nurse, Phillis McCormack. She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Chocky, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Another Bouquet and Golden Pennies. Drinkwater won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father (1990) in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow. Amongst many other film and television series, she has appeared in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), Queen Kong (1976), The Shout (1978), Father (1990), and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge's novel An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), directed by Mike Newell and starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. She has written a number of children's books, including her first, The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series and film. Bought by Disney, it won the Chicago International Film Festival Gold Award for Children's Films. Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence. In 2013 Drinkwater worked on a series of five documentary films inspired by her two Mediterranean travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree. The OLIVE ROUTE films were completed in February 2013 and have since been broadcast on international networks worldwide. In 2015 Penguin Books UK announced a deal signed with Drinkwater to write two epic novels. The first, The Forgotten Summer, was published in March 2016. The second, The Lost Girl, was published in June 2017. Drinkwater revealed to The Guardian, in October 2017, that the experience of the starlet Marguerite in The Lost Girl was based on her own experience of being sexually assaulted by Elia Kazan while auditioning for the leading film role in his film The Last Tycoon (1976). In 2018 Penguin signed a second deal with Drinkwater for two more novels. The first, published in May 2019, is The House on The Edge of The Cliff. She is married to French TV producer Michel Noll.

Known For: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1948-04-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	A Clockwork Orange	Nurse Feeley	82
2	1976	Queen Kong	Ima Goodbody	33
3	1977	Joseph Andrews	(uncredited)	47
4	1978	The Shout	Cobbler's Wife	59
5	1984	Chocky	Mary Gore	0
6	1985	Chocky's Children	Mary Gore	53
7	1985	Mask of Murder		29
8	1989	A Master of the Marionettes	Maggie	0
9	1990	Father	Anne Winton	53
10		Dawnbreakers		0
11	1995	An Awfully Big Adventure	Dawn Allenby	67
12	1998	Dead Clean	Self	0
13	1998	Coming Home	Aunt Biddy	55
14	2009	Heavy Metal	Narrator	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	The Sweeney	Roz	77
2	1976	Bill Brand	Pat	63
3	1977	Raffles		80
4	1978	All Creatures Great and Small	Helen Herriot	77
5	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Linda Larch	67
6	1980	Lady Killers	Margaret Seddon	50
7	1982	The Agatha Christie Hour	Violet Eversleigh	67
8	1984	Chocky	Mary Gore	61
9	1985	Golden Pennies	Rebecca Greenwood	0
10	1986	Casualty	Frances Lawson	61
11	1988	Captain James Cook	Elisabeth Cook	90
12	1993	Peak Practice	Helen Barton	61
13	1994	A Mind to Kill		0
14	1998	Coming Home	Aunt Biddy	0
15	2021	A Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater	Self	0