Carol Drinkwater (born 22 April 1948) is a British actress, writer and filmmaker residing in France.

[1][2] Drinkwater was a member of the National Theatre Company under the leadership of Laurence Olivier[1] and has acted in numerous television series and films including the highly successful Chocky, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Another Bouquet, Golden Pennies and as Roz, an acquaintance of Det.

Drinkwater won a Critics' Circle Best Screen Actress award[1] for her role, Anne, in the feature film Father (1990) in which she starred opposite Max von Sydow.

[1] 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.

[3]"Carol will always remain my favourite actress," All Creatures make-up artist Maggie Thomas recalled; She was a breath of fresh air; never moody or difficult, a warm, merry and very natural girl.

We were only working with Chris and a cow, which had fallen and become stuck in a small burn, so Carol had decided to come out to watch and meet everyone.

[6] Her books for adults include commercial fiction and a series of best-selling memoirs about her experiences on her olive farm in Provence.

[7] In 2015 Penguin Books UK announced a deal signed with Drinkwater to write two epic novels.

[1] During the 1978–1980 first run of All Creatures Great and Small, she had an affair with her on-screen husband, Christopher Timothy, which Drinkwater claims resulted in negative behaviour towards her by members of the general public.