Georgia Moffett

Georgia Moffett
Other names:	Georgia Tennant
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Tanya Webster Jenny Cassie Rice Alice Ciprion Avril Fenman
Stories:	AUDIO: Red Dawn TV: The Doctor's Daughter TV: Dreamland AUDIO: City of Spires AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman
IMDb profile

Georgia Elizabeth Tennant (née and credited as Moffett) appeared as Jenny, the title character of the Doctor Who story The Doctor's Daughter. She has also done numerous audio jobs in various Doctor Who spin-off media: she voiced the roles of Cassie Rice for the animated Doctor Who serial Dreamland (using an American accent), Alice Ciprion in the Sixth Doctor adventure City of Spires, Tanya Webster in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio Red Dawn (opposite her father) and Vina Tallow in Rule of the Eminence, as well as recording audio versions of two BBC Audio BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures novels and doing voiceover work for Big Finish's The Lost Stories.

She is the daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Fifth Doctor (1982- 84), and American actress Sandra Dickinson. Moffett began acting as a young teenager, and acted in numerous TV shows, often acting opposite her father. She was a regular on The Bill as Sam Nixon's troubled teen daughter Abi, who was featured in a number of major storylines.

In 2004 she met with Russell T Davies and the producers to ask to be considered for the role of Rose Tyler, but they decided not to allow her to audition, because she was too young. In 2008 she auditioned for the role of Robina Redmond in the episode The Unicorn and the Wasp, but Russell T Davies asked her to wait as he felt she would better suit the role of Jenny.

Since appearing on Doctor Who in 2008, Moffett has acted in the short-lived spinoff Spooks: Code Nine and made four TV guest appearances (in Casualty in 2009 and 2014, playing two different characters; Merlin in 2009; and a cameo in Thorne in 2010). In 2010, she landed the role of Emma in the BBC3 sitcom White Van Man, which was cancelled after two series. Also in 2010 she played a role in a one-act play, Hens, which ran for four performances at a fringe theatre in Hammersmith as part of a fringe festival. In 2012 she landed her first major theatre role, in What the Butler Saw (which her husband David Tennant acted in 17 years earlier), playing the sexy secretary who the main character tries to seduce. The role required her to wear only lingerie throughout many of her scenes, which Moffett described as scary but liberating. Rehearsals started in March and the play started previews in May. However, it was not a critical or commercial success and the play was cancelled due to poor sales in July, a month before it was scheduled to finish. In late 2012 Moffett's father, Peter Davison, revealed that she had given up acting due to struggling to find work and her desire to focus on raising her young children. However she has acted sporadically since then. In 2013, she recorded a role in a Doctor Who audio book Dark Eyes and appeared as herself in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (written and directed by her father, and which she also produced). The same year her close friend actor Christian Brassington announced that he and Moffett were writing a film script together. In November 2014, she will guest star in an episode of Casualty, her third guest appearance on the show (playing a different character in each).

Personal life

She was born nine months after Colin Baker took on role of the Sixth Doctor, replacing her father as the Doctor. Some years later she would attend the same boarding school as Baker's daughter. Moffett became pregnant at 16 (she has never named the father publicly, only saying he was an older man who worked as a waiter at a restaurant near her boarding school), and gave birth to her son, Ty Peter Moffett, on 27 March 2002. She began dating her Where the Heart Is co-star Adam Paul Harvey in February 2004, moving in with him four months later, and he became a father to her son. They split in 2006. Both Harvey and Moffett have stated that they consider him to be her son's father "in every way except biologically" and he maintains unofficial joint custody of the child. Ty attends stage school in London and has acted in a TV commercial, interviewed his mother for a video for the Doctor Who Official Site, and appeared with his mother and grandmother on a reality TV show. In 2013 Ty and his two-year-old sister appeared with their mother and grandfather in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, the unofficial 50th anniversary special written and created by Peter and Georgia. During his early childhood he frequently appeared with his mother in magazine and tabloid newspaper articles. After she started dating Tennant she stopped talking publicly about her personal life but started again once they were married.

In summer 2008, UK tabloids reported that she was dating David Tennant. In January 2011, UK tabloids reported that they were engaged, with a wedding planned for 2012, and that she was pregnant. On 31 March, UK newspapers reported that Moffett had given birth to a daughter, named Olive, earlier that week. She reportedly married Tennant in a secret ceremony on the 30 December 2011, and no photos or details from the event have been made public. Moffett started going by Georgia Tennant privately the day of the wedding though she continues to use the name Moffett for her acting work. Tennant also adopted Moffet's son Ty (from a previous relationship), and his name was changed by deed poll to Tennant.

In January 2013 Jonathan Ross announced on his TV chat show that Moffett was pregnant again. She was papped very heavily pregnant in April, and gave birth to her third child, a son named Wilfred, on 2 May 2013. Moffett poked fun at her pregnancy during her appearance in the spoof The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Tennant has never spoken about their relationship publicly, (though Tennant confirmed on 21 March 2012 during a promotional interview for his latest film that he had adopted Moffett's son), and they try to avoid being photographed together, for example by never walking red carpets together, entering and leaving venues such as theatres separately, and rarely attending events together.

In October 2014 Moffett was involved in the celebrity nude photograph hacking scandal, when several photos of her both alone and with an unknown blond man were leaked on the website 4chan.

In November 2015, Moffett gave birth to a daughter, her fourth child.

Other information

• Her son Ty attends high school in Chiswick and also attends his grandmother's drama school on weekends and after school. He made his acting debut age 8 in a TV commercial.
• She chose boarding school over day school.
• Her half brothers made their acting/public debut at the same time and same sketch as her daughter did, in Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
• Her son is one year younger than her father's second son.
• Her eldest son was named Ty Peter Moffett-Martin at birth, but his birth certificate was amended several months after his birth to remove Martin, his biological father's surname. After his mother's marriage and his adoption by his stepfather in 2011, his name was legally changed to Ty Peter Tennant.
• Her daughter's name is Olive Tennant, and made her [cameo] public debut as John Barrowman's baby daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. It's more of a public debut for Olive since the child had no lines or specific actions for the scene other than to hold a sign. Ty, Olive's real life half brother, made an appearance as a young Doctor Who fan in "Five-ish Doctors Reboot". However, it was not his acting debut, as that was made when he was 8 years of age.
• Her youngest son's name is Wilfred Tennant, and a fictionalized scene of his mother giving birth to him is included in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
• She bought a teacup cockerpoo puppy named Mabel for Christmas in 2013. The dog made its TV debut just two months later in a TV commercial for Sport Relief.
• Her father, her mother, her husband, technically her son and daughter, and Moffett herself have all acted in Doctor Who.
• Moffett revealed the change of her last name in Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, where her producer credit is listed under the name Georgia Tennant, though her acting role in the same production is listed under the name Georgia Moffett. She continues to be credited as Moffett for acting work.
• Ty is David Tennant's stepson, but legally his son after an official adoption. However, Moffett's previous boyfriend Adam Paul Harvey raised Ty from infancy and was a father figure to him. He and Ty still have a close relationship and Ty often spends weekends with him. Moffett has described Adam as "[Ty's] father in every way except biologically."

External links

• Georgia Moffett at the Internet Movie Database