Janet Fielding

Janet Fielding
Other names:	Janet Mahoney
Birth date:	9 September 1953
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Tegan Jovanka
Main jobs:	Actor
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Janet Fielding (born Janet Mahoney on 9 September 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) played companion Tegan Jovanka from Logopolis to Resurrection of the Daleks, with a cameo appearance in the role in the conclusion of The Caves of Androzani.

Fielding played the part between 1981 and 1984. She made a guest appearance on Jim'll Fix It in a Doctor Who related sketch alongside Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor in 1985 (A Fix with Sontarans). A featurette included in the 2010 DVD release of Time and the Rani reveals that she participated in the auditions for the Seventh Doctor, portraying a villain opposite several hopefuls, including Sylvester McCoy.[1]

She is now a theatrical agent — she represented Paul McGann when he first took the role of the Eighth Doctor — and has been an outspoken advocate of greater women's participation in film and television, acting as an administrator for the pressure group Women in Film and Television.

In 1982, Fielding married Daily Mirror foreign editor Nicholas "Nick" Davies, notable for later allegations of being an arms dealer and Mossad agent. They divorced in 1991. Their wedding coincided with the filming of Mawdryn Undead, and a gag publicity portrait at the time showed Fielding in her bridal gown, wearing the make-up used for the scene in which Tegan and Nyssa are aged rapidly by physical contact with Mawdryn.

Despite distancing herself from Doctor Who for many years and being vocal in her criticisms of the program, Fielding returned to the role of Tegan for the Big Finish Productions audio drama titled The Gathering, released in 2006, once again alongside Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. In 2010, she began recording a series of Big Finish adventures that reunited her with not only Davison, but her former co-stars Sarah Sutton and Mark Strickson.

She also appeared as herself in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Logopolis
• Castrovalva
• Four to Doomsday
• Kinda (also as Mara)
• The Visitation
• Black Orchid
• Earthshock
• Time-Flight
• Arc of Infinity
• Snakedance (also as Mara)
• Mawdryn Undead
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons
• The Five Doctors
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Awakening
• Frontios
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• The Caves of Androzani

Audio dramas

Main Range

• The Gathering
• Cobwebs
• The Whispering Forest (also as Mara)
• The Cradle of the Snake (also as Mara)
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• The Elite
• Hexagora
• The Children of Seth
• The Emerald Tiger
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Eldrad Must Die!
• Smoke and Mirrors
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• The Light at the End
• The Fifth Doctor Box Set
  • Psychodrome
  • Iterations of I
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• The Waters of Amsterdam
• Aquitaine
• The Peterloo Massacre
• Cold Fusion
• The Star Men
• The Contingency Club
• Zaltys
• Time in Office
• Kingdom of Lies
• Ghost Walk
• Serpent in the Silver Mask
• Devil in the Mist
• Black Thursday / Power Game
• The Kamelion Empire

Documentary

• The Tom Baker Years
• Mouth on Legs
• The Depths
• Celebration
• Winner Takes All
• Dream Time
• Come in Number Five
• Snake Charmer
• Return to Little Hodcombe
• The Doctors Revisited - The Fifth Doctor
• Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
• Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
• Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

Other

• A Fix with Sontarans
• Children in Need 1985
• Myth Runner
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

External links

• Janet Fielding at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Twitter account