Carolyn Jane Onslow How (born 21 December 1950) is an English actress with a range of television, film, and stage credits.
After training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art,[1] where she won the Rodney Millington Award, she spent several years in provincial theatre.
Other roles include two series of The Spoils of War, War and Remembrance, A.D., Anglo Saxon Attitudes, The Cazalet Chronicles, Zoya, Love in a Cold Climate, and playing another famous mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles, in the TV movie Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992).
How has also appeared in The Citadel, Midsomer Murders, Judge John Deed, Byron, Bad Girls, Love Soup, Armadillo, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Daniel Deronda, as well as in four series of the sitcom Don't Wait Up as Helen with Nigel Havers.
In the West End, she has appeared for the Royal Shakespeare Company in The Return of A. J. Raffles, as Larita in Noël Coward's Easy Virtue at the Garrick, the original cast of Don't Dress for Dinner at the Apollo, Home and Beauty at the Lyric and Top People at the Ambassadors Theatre.