Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress. She appeared in the 1970s in television series '' The Brothers'' and ''

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''. In the early 1970s she appeared in several erotic roles on screen. She later took parts in soap operas ''

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'' and ''

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''. She has also had a stage career. Her brother was the musician

Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. He did not find a wide audience during his lifetime, but his work gradually achieved wider notice and recognit ...

, whose work she has consistently helped to promote since his death in 1974.

Early life and education

Drake was born in

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, the daughter of Rodney Drake and amateur songwriter Molly Drake. Her father was an engineer working for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation. The family moved from Burma to Britain when she was eight. She later commented that, On the ship travelling to Britain she appeared in children's theatrical productions, later saying of herself "I was a dreadful exhibitionist." She attended Edgbaston College for Girls in

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, Wycombe Abbey School,

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and the

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(RADA) in London. She has had a long stage career beginning in the mid-1960s, and has regularly appeared in television dramas.

Screen career

Drake first gained wide attention for her portrayal of Lieutenant Gay Ellis in the 1970

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television series ''

'', in which her costume consisted of a silver suit and a purple wig. In the series, the character is the commander of the SHADO Moonbase, which is

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's first line of defence against invading flying saucers. Drake appeared in roughly half the 26 episodes produced, leaving the series during a break in the production to pursue other acting opportunities. In 1971, Drake appeared in a short film entitled ''Crash!'', based on a chapter in J. G. Ballard's book ''

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''. The film, directed by

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, featured Ballard talking about the ideas in his book. Drake appeared as a passenger and car-crash victim. Ballard later developed the idea into his 1973 novel ''

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''. In his draft of the novel he mentioned Drake by name, but references to her were removed from the published version. In the 2009 BBC documentary '' Synth Britannia'' clips of Ballard and Drake from ''Crash!'' were inserted into the 1979 video for

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's song "

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". A reviewer in ''

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'' commented that the presence of Drake "brought serious glamour to urban alienation". In the early 1970s, Drake was associated with the boom in British

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movies, repeatedly appearing nude or topless. She played a nude artist's model in the 1970 film ''

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'', and was one of

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' conquests in the film ''

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''. She also played one of the lead roles in the sex comedy ''

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'' (1972) and appeared in two

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films, ''

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'' (1971) and its sequel ''

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'' (1972), in which she played the narrator who links the disparate episodes together. Her early television appearances include '' The Avengers'' (1967), ''

'' (as Inga Olsen in 1967) and '' The Saint'' (1968). In 1970, she auditioned for the part of Jo Grant in ''

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'', reaching the final shortlist of three, but did not get the part. On December 26, 1968 she played opposite American actor

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in a BBC television series called ''

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'' (1985, for LWT/ PBS), ''

'' (1985–87, as motel boss Nicola Freeman) and returned to ''Coronation Street'' in 2009 as Vanessa. In '' The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'' (2003–05) she played the protagonist's mother. She was the subject of ''

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'' on 8 April 1987.

Stage career

Drake made her stage debut in 1964, during the inaugural season of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, playing Cecily in ''

''. In 1966, she joined the

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and played Queen Isabella in Marlowe's ''

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''. She also had roles in '' Private Lives'' (with Renee Asherson), ''

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'' (with Linda Marlowe and Patrick Mower), ''

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'' and '' Inadmissible Evidence''. The following year, she was Roxanne in ''

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'' at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In the 1974–5, season at the Bristol Old Vic, she played in '' Cowardy Custard'', a devised entertainment featuring the words and music of

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. In 1975, she appeared as Madeline Bassett in the original London cast of the

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and

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musical ''

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''. She also appeared in '' French Without Tears'' at the Little Theatre, Bristol. In 1978, she played Lavinia, opposite Simon Callow in the title role, in Shakespeare's ''

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'', directed by

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, at the New Vic, Bristol. She also appeared at the Bristol Old Vic in that year, in Vanbrugh's '' The Provok'd Wife''. She was directed by

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in ''Look, No Hans!'', alongside

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, during the 83–84 season at the Theatre Royal, Bath. She made a second appearance in ''

'' at the Royalty Theatre, London, in a production directed by

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, which also starred

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, Clive Francis, Phyllida Law and

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(87-88). In 1988, she played Fiona Foster in a revival of Ayckbourn's '' How the Other Half Loves'', first at the Greenwich Theatre, then at the Duke of York's Theatre. During the 1990–91 season at the Theatre Royal, Bath, she played in ''Risky Kisses'' with

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. She was in the Mobil Touring Theatre's official centenary production of '' Charley's Aunt'' in 1991, with

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, Patrick Cargill and Mark Curry. In 1993, she was Monica in Coward's ''

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'' at the Globe Theatre, London, in a revival directed by and starring

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. She co-starred with

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in the 1995 King's Head Theatre tour of '' Cavalcade'', directed by Dan Crawford. In 1999, she was Vittoria in Paul Kerryson's production of ''

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'' at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester. She also toured with the Oxford Stage Company in that year, as Hester Bellboys in John Whiting's ''

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'', alongside

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, and

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. She played Mrs Malaprop in the 2002 touring production of '' The Rivals'' with the British Actors' Theatre Company, whose artistic director,

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, was Drake's co-star in the TV series '' The Brothers''. She has made regular appearances at the

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, since her debut there in a non-pantomime version of ''

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'', written by

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, in 1979. That same year, she co-starred with Sorcha Cusack and Susan Penhaligon in Caspar Wrede's production of ''

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''. In 1986, she was Madame Gobette in the British premiere of

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's ''Court in the Act'', which subsequently played at the

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, Guildford, and the

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, before transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in London (1987). Other roles at the Royal Exchange include Mrs Erlynne in '' Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1996); Anna in ''The Ghost Train Tattoo'' (2000); Fay in ''

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'' (2001); Lady Bracknell in ''

'' (2004); and The Comtesse de la Briere in '' What Every Woman Knows'' (2006). At the same theatre in 2001, Drake replaced

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as Mrs Conway during the rehearsal period for J. B. Priestley's '' Time and the Conways'', when Routledge was forced to withdraw from the production due to illness. Elsewhere, she has appeared in her one-woman show, ''Dear Scheherazade'', as the 19th century writer

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(2005, 2007, 2010). At the Chipping Campden Literature Festival in 2011, she and Martin Jarvis read extracts from the letters and diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann in the recital, ''Beloved Clara''. She had appeared in the same piece the previous year, again with Jarvis and the pianist Lucy Parham, at the

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in London.

Personal life

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Drake has helped to ensure the public renown of her brother

and her mother Molly Drake. She can be heard accompanying her brother Nick on a number of songs that he recorded privately, and which have since been released on the album ''

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''. After the release of songs written and performed by her mother, she said "Her creativity was a personal thing, and she was lucky to be able to develop it in an environment where that side of her was totally accepted. Indeed, my father encouraged it. He was so proud of her. On one occasion, he even made the 20-mile drive to Birmingham to get four songs pressed onto a disc." In 2014, she co-wrote and edited, with Cally Callomon, ''Nick Drake: Remembered for a While'', a memoir of her brother. In April 2018, she collected the Hall of Fame Folk Award 2018 on her brother's behalf in Belfast. She lives in Wenlock Abbey in

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, in a house she bought in 1983 with her husband, South African-born artist Louis de Wet, who died in 2018. They renovated their home over several years as an artistic project and, in 2004, he described it as "the most beautiful building site in the world". Drake was the co-producer, with Cally Callomon, of ''In the Gaze of the Medusa'', a 2013 film by Gavin Bush about the renovation project and her husband's designs for the house.

Selected filmography

* '' The Man Outside'' (1967) * '' Crossplot'' (1969) * ''

'' (1970) * ''

'' (1971) * ''

'' (1972) * ''

'' (1972) * ''All About a Prima Ballerina'' (1980) * ''

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'' (1995)

Television roles

* ''Riviera Police'' (one episode, 1965) * '' The Avengers'' (one episode, "The Hidden Tiger" as Angora, produced in January 1967) * '' The Saint'' (one episode, "The Best Laid Schemes", 1968) * ''

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'' (one episode, "Full Circle",1969) * ''

'' (1969–70) * ''

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'' (one episode, "Sorry Is Just a Word", 1970) * '' Man at the Top'' (one episode, "Join the Human Race", 1970) * '' The Brothers'' (1972–74) * ''

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'' (one episode, "Kill Two Birds", 1976) * '' The New Avengers'' (one episode, "Dead Men Are Dangerous", 1977) * '' The Professionals'' (1978) * '' The Kelly Monteith Show'' (1979–80) * '' Never the Twain'' (1981) * '' Number 10'' (one episode, 1983) * ''

'' (1985–87) * '' The Inspector Lynley Mysteries'' (2003–05) * '' Doctors'' (2011)

Audio recordings

* '' The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake'' (2017)

References

Bibliography

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External links

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