I can remember our first day on location. 'She was a breath of fresh air never moody or difficult, a warm, merry and very natural girl. 'Carol will always remain my favourite actress,' All Creatures make-up artist Maggie Thomas recalled. I must say now, looking back on my career, it's one of the few things in my life I would do differently, and I wouldn't have left.' I was terribly upset because it was a wonderful role and would have been very good for me. So they re-cast and another actress got the role. The BBC was so angry with me, they put a ban on using me. I wasn't leaving in any kind of spiteful thing. 'I'd given everything I could and I couldn't think where else I could take the role, because there was no more material. She left the role in 1985 after appearing in 39 episodes. 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.ĭrinkwater portrayed Helen Herriot (née Alderson), the wife of James Herriot, for the first three series of the original BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small. 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.

Career ĭrinkwater 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.

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. Critics Circle Best Screen Actress, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award, Variety Club Television Personality of the Year AwardĬarol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is a British actress, writer and filmmaker residing in France.

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