Actress
Best known for award-winning portrayal of Helen Herriot in the television adaptation of the James Herriot books, All Creatures Great and Small(1978–85), which led to receiving the Variety Club Television Personality of the Year award in 1985.One time member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier and acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Chocky. Won a Critics’ Circle Best Screen Actress award for role in the feature film Father playing opposite Max von Sydow. Amongst many other film and television series, appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971) and the film adaptation of Beryl Bainbridge’s novel An Awfully Big Adventure, directed by Mike Newell.
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 Carol in All Creatures Great and Small |
 Chris Timothy, Carol Drinkwater and Peter Ustinov collecting Variety Club Awards |
 Carol with the cast of All Creatures Great and Small |
- Interview for WAMC's The Roundtable, Northeast Public Radio USA An award-winning, nationally recognized eclectic talk program. 0
- Interview with Carol Drinkwater, author of the Olive Series The Good Life France. 0
- NAW Interview with Carol Drinkwater New Asian Writing Online Asian Literary Community interviews Carol following the publication of Hotel Paradise 0
- Where are they now? Actress and author Carol Drinkwater. STAGE and screen actress Carol played Helen Herriot in the popular TV series All Creatures Great And Small (1978-1985) with Robert Hardy, Christopher Timothy and Peter Davison. 0
- The Irish Times, December 2017 From award-winning actor to bestselling author: John Rainsford discovers the emotional outpouring behind the writer’s latest novel. 0
- Writer's Forum Where I Write: Phil Barrington visits novelist Carol Drinkwater at her French olive farm 0
- Carol Drinkwater Lives the Good Life in France (and Writes About It Too) The Thin Reads Interview with Carol Drinkwater, Author of “Hotel Paradise” 0
- 'As a young actress, I would spend everything that I'd earn on travelling…' Irish Indpendent. Louisa McBride interviews Carol Drinkwater. 0
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