Age, Biography and Wiki
Who is it? | Actress, Writer |
Birth Day | April 22, 1948 |
Birth Place | London, England, United Kingdom |
Age | 75 YEARS OLD |
Birth Sign | Taurus |
Occupation | Actress Author Filmmaker |
Spouse(s) | Michel Noll |
Parent(s) | Peter Regan Phyllis Drinkwater |
Awards | Critics Circle Best Screen Actress, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Award, Variety Club Television Personality of the Year Award |
Website | caroldrinkwater.com |
Net worth
As of 2024, Carol Drinkwater's net worth is estimated to range between $100,000 and $1 million. Hailing from the United Kingdom, she is well-known for her contributions as an actress and writer. With a successful career spanning several years, Drinkwater has garnered fame and recognition in both fields. Her talents have not only earned her a strong fan base, but also a considerable fortune. It is evident that her hard work and dedication have paid off, solidifying her status as a prominent figure in the entertainment industry.
Biography/Timeline
She 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. 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. 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, The Haunted School, which was produced as a television mini-series 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. 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. 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. 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).