Carol Drinkwater
Acting
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 und...
Known For
Filmography
A Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater
2021
as Self
Heavy Metal
2009
as Narrator
Coming Home
1998
as Aunt Biddy
Dead Clean
1998
as Self
Coming Home
1998
as Aunt Biddy
An Awfully Big Adventure
1995
as Dawn Allenby
A Mind to Kill
1994
Peak Practice
1993
as Helen Barton
Father
1990
as Anne Winton
A Master of the Marionettes
1989
as Maggie
Captain James Cook
1988
as Elisabeth Cook
The Play on One
1988
as Maggie
Casualty
1986
as Frances Lawson
Chocky's Children
1985
as Mary Gore
Mask of Murder
1985
Golden Pennies
1985
as Rebecca Greenwood
Chocky
1984
as Mary Gore
Chocky
1984
as Mary Gore
The Agatha Christie Hour
1982
as Violet Eversleigh
Lady Killers
1980
as Margaret Seddon
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Linda Larch
The Shout
1978
as Cobbler's Wife
All Creatures Great and Small
1978
as Helen Herriot
Joseph Andrews
1977
as (uncredited)
Raffles
1977
Queen Kong
1976
as Ima Goodbody
Bill Brand
1976
as Pat
The Sweeney
1975
as Roz
A Clockwork Orange
1971
as Nurse Feeley