Janet Fielding

Janet Fielding
Other names:	Janet Claire Mahoney
Birth date:	9 September 1953
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Tegan Jovanka, The Mara
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1981-85, 2006 & 2010-present
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Janet Fielding (born Janet Claire 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 mini-episode 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.

Janet in the 1980's.

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

As Tegan Jovanka

Television

Doctor Who

• Logopolis
• Castrovalva
• Four to Doomsday
• Kinda
• The Visitation
• Black Orchid
• Earthshock
• Time-Flight
• Arc of Infinity
• Snakedance
• 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
• The Power of the Doctor

Webcasts

Tales of the TARDIS

• Earthshock

The Collection Blu-Ray Trailers

• The Season 19 Safety Video with Tegan Jovanka
• The Passenger

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Gathering
• Cobwebs
• The Whispering Forest
• The Cradle of the Snake
• Heroes of Sontar
• Kiss of Death
• Rat Trap
• The Emerald Tiger
• The Jupiter Conjunction
• The Butcher of Brisbane
• Eldrad Must Die!
• The Lady of Mercia
• Prisoners of Fate
• Mistfall
• Equilibrium
• The Entropy Plague
• The Waters of Amsterdam
• Aquitaine
• The Peterloo Massacre
• 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
• Tartarus
• Interstitial / Feast of Fear
• Warzone / Conversion
• Madquake

Special Releases

• The Light at the End

The Lost Stories

• The Elite
• Hexagora
• The Children of Seth
• Nightmare Country

The Fifth Doctor Adventures

• The Fifth Doctor Box Set
  • Psychodrome
  • Iterations of I
• The Lost Resort and Other Stories
  • The Lost Resort
  • The Perils of Nellie Bly
  • Nightmare of the Daleks
• Forty: Volume 1
  • Secrets of Telos
  • God of War
• Forty: Volume 2
  • The Auton Infinity
• Conflicts of Interest
  • Friendly Fire
  • The Edge of the War
• In the Night
  • Pursuit of the Nightjar
  • Resistor

Novel Adaptations

• Cold Fusion

Destiny of the Doctor

• Smoke and Mirrors

As The Mara

Television

Doctor Who

• Kinda
• Snakedance

Webcasts

The Collection Blu-Ray Trailers

• The Passenger - uncredited

Audio

Doctor Who Main Range

• The Whispering Forest
• The Cradle of the Snake

Audiobook Readings

Target Novelisations

• Warriors of the Deep

Documentary

• 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
• Time Trap: The Making of Castrovalva
• Showman - The Life of John Nathan-Turner
• Back to Bodiam: Making The King's Demons
• Look Who's Driving

Other

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

Audio commentary

• Warriors of the Deep

to be completed

Writer Credits

Short stories

The Adventures Before

• Little Did She Know

External links

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