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.[2][3]

Carol Drinkwater
Drinkwater in 2012
Born (1948-04-22) 22 April 1948
London, England
NationalityAnglo-Irish
Occupation
  • Actress
  • Author
  • Filmmaker
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1988)​
Parent(s)Peter Drinkwater-Regan
Phyllis McCormack
RelativesLinda Regan (sister)[1]
AwardsCritics Circle Best Screen Actress, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award, Variety Club Television Personality of the Year Award
Websitecaroldrinkwater.com

Biography

Drinkwater is the daughter of the bandleader and agent, Peter Regan (born Peter Albert Drinkwater) and Irish nurse, Phillis McCormack; her sister is actress Linda Regan.[4]

She was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier[2] 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[2] for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father (1990) in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow.[2] 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,[2] The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series[2] 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.[2] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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).[7]

In 2018 Penguin signed a second deal with Drinkwater for two further novels. The first, published in May 2019, is The House on The Edge of The Cliff. The second, An Act of Love, will be published on 29 April 2021.

She is married to French TV producer Michel Noll.[2][3]

Bibliography

The Olive Series
  • The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of France (Little, Brown and Company, 2001) ISBN 0142001309
  • The Olive Season: Amour, a New Life and Olives Too (Little, Brown & Company, 2003) ISBN 978-0316861168
  • The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Life and Olives in the South of France (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004) ISBN 978-0297847809
  • A Celebration of Olives (Little, Brown and Company, 2004) 978-0316728034
    • a compilation of The Olive Farm and The Olive Season
  • The Illustrated Olive Farm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) ISBN 978-0297844044
  • The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) ISBN 978-0297847892
  • The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) ISBN 978-0297847748
    • shortlisted for Travel Book of the Year, Travel Press Awards 2009
  • Return To the Olive Farm (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010) ISBN 978-0297856948

My Story Series
  • The Hunger: The Diary of Phyllis McCormack, Ireland, 1845–1847
  • Suffragette: The Diary of Dollie Baxter, London 1909–1913
  • Twentieth Century Girl: Diary of Flora Bonnington London 1899–1900
  • Nowhere to Run (the story of a World War II Jewish refugee), published 2 August 2012
  • Cadogan Square – a compilation of Suffragette and Twentieth-Century Girl August 2012

Other works
  • An Act of Love (April 2021)
  • The House on the Edge of the Cliff (May 2019)
  • The Love of a Stranger (Kindle Single, September 2017)
  • The Lost Girl (2017)
  • The Forgotten Summer (2016)
  • A Simple Act of Kindness (Kindle Single, September 2015)
  • The Only Girl in the World (Young Adult novel, 2014 ISBN 978-1407138954)
  • Hotel Paradise (Kindle Single, March 2014)
  • The Girl in Room Fourteen (Kindle Single 2013)
  • Because You're Mine (2001)
  • Crossing the Line: Young Women Talk About Being in Trouble with the Law (2000)
  • Molly on the Run (1996)
  • Molly (1996)
  • Mapping the Heart (1993)
  • Akin to Love (1992)
  • An Abundance of Rain (1989)
  • The Haunted School (1985)

References
  1. "Enjoying the rich harvest". Independent.ie. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  2. Stanford, Peter (15 November 2008). "A tear in Provence". Irish Independent. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
  3. Alech, Alice. "Carol Drinkwater: Following 'The Olive Oil Route' with Passion". Olive Oil Times. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
  4. Maxford, Howard (2018). Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company. McFarland. p. 677. ISBN 1476670072. She is married to the actor Brian Murphy (1932 - ), whom she wed in 1995... Her father is the bandleader and agent Peter Regan (real name Peter Albert Drinkwater) and her sister is the actress and writer Carol Drinkwater (1948 - ).
  5. "The Olive Route". IMDb. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  6. Shaffi, Sarah (28 July 2015). "Drinkwater signs fiction deal with MJ". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  7. Armistead, Claire (20 October 2017). "Carol Drinkwater reveals sex attack by Hollywood director Elia Kazan". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
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