Georgia Elizabeth Moffett

Born to actors Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson at just four minutes after midnight on Christmas Day 1984, Georgia attended St Edwards School in Oxford.  She retained her father's real name (Peter Davison is the stage name for her father, his real name is Peter Moffett - however was unable to register it with Equity, as there was another actor by the name Peter Moffett at the time) before pursuing a career in the entertainment industry.

She has performed alongside her father in Red Dawn (as Tanya Webster), a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama.

She has also had roles in many other television dramas, including Peak Practice, Like Father Like Son and The Bill, as Sam Nixon's troubled teen daughter Abi - who was featured in a number of major storylines. She took on a recurring role in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is, for the 2004-2005 series as Alice Harding.

Georgia Moffett in BonkersShe has appeared alongside her father (playing his daughter) in the BBC sitcom, Fear, Stress & Anger and starred in the comedy-drama, Bonkers, as Debbie Hooper in 2007. In April 2008, she appeared as Officer Penny Bishop in the BBC sitcom My Family.

Georgia reportedly auditioned for the part of the Ninth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler in the 2005 BBC revival of Doctor Who, although the role eventually went to Billie Piper. She also auditioned for a role in the Agatha Christie episode of Doctor Who. She was unsuccessful but impressed the producers so much she was offered a more substantial role in a later episode.....

In "The Doctor's Daughter", the sixth episode of the 2008 series of Doctor Who, Georgia played Jenny, a person created from the Doctor's own DNA - an in-joke, as her real life father is an actor who played the Fifth Doctor.

She played "Kylie Roman" in the BBC Three show - [spooks] Code 9 and played Lady Frances Derwent in an Agatha Christie "Miss Marple" story called "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" shown on ITV.

She has recorded a Doctor Who New Adventures audio book, reading the story "Snowglobe 7" written by Mike Tucker and has voiced the character of Cassie Rice in a Doctor Who Animated Adventure called "Dreamland" shown on BBC Children's Television in November 2009 (UK).

Georgia made a brief appearance in one episode of The Bill, reprising her character of Abigail Nixon in June 2009.

A set of three Doctor Who documentaries - Doctor Who Greatest Moments - made by the Doctor Who Confidential team (which aired in the UK during August\September 2009) featured Georgia as one of the interviewees, speaking as herself about the character of Jenny and about The Doctor in general.

In September 2009, Georgia played the part of Heather Whitefield, a new Junior Doctor in the long running BBC Hospital Drama Casualty. This marked her second appearance in Casualty, having played the character of Elaine in 2007 for one episode. November 2009 saw Georgia playing the part of Lady Vivian (Daughter of King Olaf) in the second series of the BBC Fantasy Drama Merlin.

Continuing her audio work, Georgia played the part of Alice in a Big Finish Doctor Who Audiobook entitled Doctor Who : City of Spires - a Sixth Doctor adventure. The two disc CD Adventure was released on 30th April 2010. She also narrated the audio book Doctor Who: Autonomy, released on 3rd March 2010.

In June 2010, Georgia returned to the stage in a Sky Arts funded play called Hens. The play was performed live for four nights at the Riverside Studios from Thursday 17th June 2010 and recorded for transmission on Sky Arts 2 (and Sky Arts 2HD) on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 at 9pm.

Georgia starred alongside Will Mellor and Clive Mantle in a new sitcom for BBC Three called White Van Man, in which she played the character of Emma Keeley. Series one was filmed during Summer 2010 in and around Manchester and was broadcast on BBCThree from Tuesday 22nd March 2011. Sandra Dickinson (Georgia's mother) guest starred (as her mother) in the comedy sitcom, appearing for the first time with her daughter (as a character).

October 2010 saw the launch of a new Police Drama for Sky 1: Thorne, in which Georgia played the pregnant wife of DC Dave Holland. Georgia's character - Sophie Holland - appeared briefly in episodes 2 and 3 of Thorne: Sleepyhead.

Series two of White Van Man was confirmed by the BBC on 26th May 2011, with all of the original ensemble cast - including Georgia - returning. Filming started in September Autumn 2011, for broadcast in early 2012.

Since 2009, Georgia has been the patron of Straight Talking: a peer education organisation set up as a registered charity in 1998 by Hilary Pannack. The aim of the organisation is to educate young people through talks at schools and training programmes about teenage pregnancy and teenage parenting.

Charities

Georgia MoffettSince 2009, Georgia has been the patron of Straight Talking: a peer education organisation set up as a registered charity in 1998 by Hilary Pannack. The aim of the organisation is to educate young people through talks at schools and training programmes about teenage pregnancy and teenage parenting.

For the last twelve years, Straight Talking has expanded and now employs approximately 85 teenage mothers and young fathers. All of these young people show a very high commitment to the work and without them, the charity could not deliver the successful work in schools.

"The hardest challenge I face is the taboo and stigma that is still attached to being a young parent. The attitude from certain areas of society towards young, single mothers is: ‘You made your bed, now lie in it’."

Straight Talking is based in New Malden, Surrey. Courses are currently delivered in the London Boroughs of Kingston, Richmond, Hounslow and Barking & Dagenham as well as Birmingham and Somerset.

Their mission statement:

Straight Talking exists to reduce the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the UK and to support and empower teenage parents, so that young people achieve economic wellbeing and quality of life.

On the website, Georgia talks about the taboos and stigmas that are still attached to teenage pregnancies. "In her own words" sums up the challenges attached to being a teenage parent and can be downloaded in PDF format from the Straight Talking Website.

Georgia Trivia

  • Georgia Moffett has revealed that she was punched in the face for real during the filming of Spooks: Code 9 - and was "pleased" by the experience.

The young actress, who plays psychology student Kylie in the futuristic show, told Digital Spy:

Georgia Moffett as Kylie Roman"I got punched in the face! It was my fault though, because I was getting all like 'I wonder what it's like to be punched in the face?'

"Then after about two hours of shooting this scene I forgot to make eye contact with the guy, which is disastrous, and we misjudged where each other was and he just went [bang] at full pelt in my face."

Moffett, who recently starred in Doctor Who episode 'The Doctor's Daughter', confirmed that the footage of the punch made the final cut, saying: "It's in it! You can see the aftermath of it, which is me staggering around not knowing what's going on.

"We carried on, we're professional. It was fine! It's an experience that I'm quite pleased I had, because I wasn't punched in the face in an aggressive situation."

  • Her mother is American actress Sandra Dickinson ("The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy") whilst her father is popular British actor Peter Davison ("All Creatures Great and Small", "Doctor Who", "At Home with the Braithwaites" etc).
  • After David Troughton, she is the second child of an actor who played the Doctor (Peter Davison) to have a speaking role in "Doctor Who" (1963) and/or "Doctor Who" (2005).
  • She was born the day before her parents' sixth wedding anniversary.
  • She was born just nine months after Colin Baker took on role of the Sixth Doctor, replacing her father as the Doctor.
  • Georgia made her theatrical début as Mathilde Verlaine, wife of French poet Paul Verlaine, in the play 'Total Eclipse', at the Menier Chocolate Factory (March-May 2007).  See review for more.
  • Georgia's first television role was at the age of 14 as Nicki Davey in Peak Practice.
  • Georgia's first television appearance with her mother (in character) was when Sandra Dickinson played her mother (Debbie) in White Van Man Series 1, Episode 5.

Connections

Casualty:

Georgia has appeared twice (so far) in the BBC Medical Drama Casualty. She played Elaine Walker in 2007 (S21 Ep34) along with Peter O'Brien. Peter O'Brien appeared in Doctor Who (The Waters of Mars).

She appeared as Dr Heather Whitefield in 2009 (S24 Eps 1&2) along with Tom Chadbon. Tom Chadbon appeared in the Doctor Who story "City of Death" with Tom Baker. Laura Aikman also appeared in The Bill.

Georgia appeared with actress Naomi Bentley in the BBC comedy White Van Man. Naomi will appear in Casualty in the next series (S26).

Merlin:

Georgia plays Lady Vivian in Episode 10 (Sweet Dreams) the new Series 2 of Merlin. Angel Coulby, who plays Guinivere, appeared in the same Holby City episode (S7 Ep9) as Maxine Framley to Georgia's Emma Lenton. Angel Coulby also played Katherine in the Doctor Who story "Girl in the Fireplace" and has also appeared in The Bill. Colin Morgan, who plays the title role (Merlin), has also appeared in Doctor Who in the story "Midnight". The director of Episode 10 - Alice Troughton - also directed The Doctor's Daughter (the Doctor Who episode in which Georgia played Jenny).

Georgia Quotes (allegedly!)

Georgia: It was winter in Cardiff when we filmed and I was wearing very little, so you can imagine how cold that was. David [Tennant] kindly lent me his jacket between takes. I put it on, bent over and ripped the back of it. He's a good 6 foot-something and he's never ripped it; I'm 5 foot 2, put it on and destroyed it!

Georgia: (on her time filming on "Doctor Who") I spent the whole five weeks I was doing it in a daze that I was there. I didn't quite believe it. I still don't quite believe it. The first day I arrived there they took me to Make-Up via the inside of the TARDIS. I was just going 'oh my God!'

Georgia: I used to be painfully insecure - I still am up to a point - but nothing like I was. I used to dress to cover everything up and was not as confident as I am now. I began to realise that there's no point in trying to change who you are for anyone other than for yourself.

Georgia: (About her role in The Last Detective) I play a scantily-clad gangster's girl. Not surprisingly, Dad didn't feel at all comfortable seeing me in short skirts and high heels. The worst moment for us came when the director wanted us to flirt and gaze into each other's eyes. He's my dad, for goodness sake, and there are limits, even for actors!

Georgia: (About her role in Fear, Stress and Anger) I haven't had the best of luck previously, as I always seem to get killed off - so this is a real novelty. It's also the first comedy I've done and the atmosphere on set is very jovial and jolly – and I get to see my dad a lot.

Georgia: At first I decided I wanted to do anything other than act. Then the acting bug got the better of me. I suppose it's in my genes.

Georgia: (About her character in Bonkers) Debbie seems empty-headed and tarty at first but she truly loves her fiancé and isn't really the evil cow she might appear at first. It's just that she wants to experience sex with a bigger man. Seeing me in those scenes was probably not going to be my parents' most exciting experience - especially for Dad.

Georgia on TV

  • White Van Man - the BBCThree comedy written by Adrian Poynton and starring Georgia as Emma - is returning with Series 2 to BBCThree and BBCHD in February 2012.

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