Gabrielle Drake was born on 30 March 1944 and is a British actress.
27 Facts About Gabrielle Drake
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Gabrielle Drake appeared in the 1970s in television series The Brothers and UFO.
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Gabrielle Drake later took parts in soap operas Crossroads and Coronation Street.
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Gabrielle Drake's brother was the musician Nick Drake, whose work she has consistently helped to promote since his death in 1974.
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Gabrielle Drake is the sister of songwriter and composer Nick Drake.
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Gabrielle Drake's father was an engineer working for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.
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Gabrielle Drake has had a long stage career beginning in the mid-1960s, and has regularly appeared in television dramas.
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Gabrielle Drake first gained wide attention for her portrayal of Lieutenant Gay Ellis in the 1970 science fiction television series UFO, in which her costume consisted of a silver suit and a purple wig.
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Gabrielle Drake appeared in roughly half the 26 episodes produced, leaving the series during a break in the production to pursue other acting opportunities.
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Gabrielle Drake played a nude artist's model in the 1970 film Connecting Rooms, and was one of Peter Sellers' conquests in the film There's a Girl in My Soup.
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Gabrielle Drake gained wide exposure in The Brothers, the hit BBC family drama series, in which she appeared as a regular for the first four seasons playing Jill, the girlfriend of David Hammond.
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Gabrielle Drake appeared in the 1976 episode "Kill Two Birds" of Brian Clemens' series Thriller, in The Kelly Monteith Show, a television version of The Importance of Being Earnest, Crossroads and returned to Coronation Street in 2009 as Vanessa.
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Gabrielle Drake was the subject of This Is Your Life on 8 April 1987.
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Gabrielle Drake made her stage debut in 1964, during the inaugural season of the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, playing Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Gabrielle Drake had roles in Private Lives, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, Twelfth Night and Inadmissible Evidence.
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Gabrielle Drake appeared in French Without Tears at the Little Theatre, Bristol.
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Gabrielle Drake appeared at the Bristol Old Vic in that year, in Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife.
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Gabrielle Drake made a second appearance in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Royalty Theatre, London, in a production directed by Donald Sinden, which starred Wendy Hiller, Clive Francis, Phyllida Law and Denis Lawson.
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Gabrielle Drake was in the Mobil Touring Theatre's official centenary production of Charley's Aunt in 1991, with Frank Windsor, Patrick Cargill and Mark Curry.
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Gabrielle Drake co-starred with Jeremy Clyde in the 1995 King's Head Theatre tour of Cavalcade, directed by Dan Crawford.
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Gabrielle Drake toured with the Oxford Stage Company in that year, as Hester Bellboys in John Whiting's A Penny for a Song, alongside Julian Glover, Jeremy Clyde, and Charles Kay.
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Gabrielle Drake played Mrs Malaprop in the 2002 touring production of The Rivals with the British Actors' Theatre Company, whose artistic director, Kate O'Mara, was Drake's co-star in the TV series The Brothers.
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Gabrielle Drake has made regular appearances at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, since her debut there in a non-pantomime version of Cinderella, written by Trevor Peacock, in 1979.
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Gabrielle Drake had appeared in the same piece the previous year, again with Jarvis and the pianist Lucy Parham, at the Wigmore Hall in London.
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Gabrielle Drake can be heard accompanying Nick on a number of songs that he recorded privately, and which have since been released on the album Family Tree.
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Gabrielle Drake lives in Wenlock Abbey in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, in a house she bought in 1983 with her husband, South African-born artist Louis de Wet, who died in 2018.
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Gabrielle 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.