
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…
tvA Year in Provence with Carol Drinkwater
2021 · Self, Creator
The Olive Route
2012 · Writer
movieHeavy Metal
2009 · Narrator
tvComing Home
1998 · Aunt Biddy
movieComing Home
1998 · Aunt Biddy
Dead Clean
1998 · Self
movieAn Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Dawn Allenby
tvA Mind to Kill
1994
tvPeak Practice
1993 · Helen Barton
movieFather
1990 · Anne Winton
movieA Master of the Marionettes
1989 · Maggie
tvCaptain James Cook
1988 · Elisabeth Cook
tvThe Play on One
1988 · Maggie
tvCasualty
1986 · Frances Lawson
tvGolden Pennies
1985 · Rebecca Greenwood
movieMask of Murder
1985
movieChocky's Children
1985 · Mary Gore
movieChocky
1984 · Mary Gore
tvChocky
1984 · Mary Gore
tvThe Agatha Christie Hour
1982 · Violet Eversleigh
tvLady Killers
1980 · Margaret Seddon
tvTales of the Unexpected
1979 · Linda Larch
movieThe Shout
1978 · Cobbler's Wife
tvAll Creatures Great and Small
1978 · Helen Herriot
movieJoseph Andrews
1977 · (uncredited)
tvRaffles
1977
movieQueen Kong
1976 · Ima Goodbody
tvBill Brand
1976 · Pat
tvThe Sweeney
1975 · Roz
movieA Clockwork Orange
1971 · Nurse Feeley
Dawnbreakers
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