Georgia Tennant
{{Short description|English actress (born 1984)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Georgia Tennant
| image = File:Georgia Moffet modified.jpg
| caption = Tennant at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con
| birth_name = Georgia Elizabeth Moffett
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|12|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hammersmith, London, England
| citizenship = {{hlist|United Kingdom|United States{{cite web |title=@georgiaETennant |url=https://twitter.com/georgiaetennant/status/1050491515343003648?lang=en |website=Twitter |access-date=7 August 2021 |quote=As an American, i return the sentiment.}}{{cite web |title=@georgiaEtennant |url=https://twitter.com/georgiaetennant/status/1004598045189820416?lang=en |website=Twitter |quote=I am American.}}}}
| occupation = Actress, producer
| yearsactive = 1999–present
| education = St Edward's School, Oxford
| spouse = {{marriage|David Tennant|30 December 2011}}
| children = 5, including Ty
| father = Peter Davison
| mother = Sandra Dickinson
| relatives = {{ubl|Harold Searles (grandfather)|Sandy McDonald (father-in-law)|Elizabeth Morton (stepmother)}}
}}
Georgia Elizabeth Tennant ({{nee|Moffett}}; born 25 December 1984{{Cite web |last=Ford |first=Tom |date=2024-06-28 |title=Who is 'Doctor Who' David Tennant's Wife - Georgia Tennant? |url=https://thebiography.org/who-is-doctor-who-david-tennants-wife-georgia-tennant/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=The Biography |language=en-US}}) is an English actress and producer. She played Detective Inspector Samantha Nixon's daughter Abigail in The Bill,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0062921/|title=The Bill (2004–2009)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} Jenny in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter" and Lady Vivian in the show Merlin.
Early life
Tennant is the daughter of actors Peter Moffett (known by his stage name, Peter Davison) and Sandra Dickinson.{{cite magazine |date=April 2008 |title=The Stars are Coming Out |magazine=Radio Times |issue=5–11 April 2008 |pages=14–24 |publisher=BBC }} She has two half brothers from her father's third marriage; she is of Guyanese descent through her paternal grandfather{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/peter-davison-actor-father-sister |title=Peter Davison: 'Britain wasn't as welcoming as it should have been for my father' |last=Palmer |first=Camilla |date=11 August 2017 |website=theguardian.com|access-date=11 August 2017}} and Finnish descent through her maternal grandmother.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/robertburrowsdes02burr |title=Robert Burrows and descendants, 1630-1974 |last=Burrows |first=Raymond Earl |date=1975 |website=Internet Archive |page=978 |access-date=16 September 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CL2MW_inhqC/ |title=My first trip to Finland with my baby bro... the homeland of our mother and my hair |author=Sandra Dickinson |via=Instagram |date=28 February 2021 |access-date=16 September 2023 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CL2MW_inhqC |archive-date=24 December 2021 |url-access=limited}}{{cbignore}} She attended St Edward's School in Oxford.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/georgia-moffett/person/187852/summary.html | title=Georgia Moffett Summary | publisher=Tv.com | access-date=13 September 2009 | archive-date=11 May 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511150245/http://www.tv.com/georgia-moffett/person/187852/summary.html | url-status=dead }}
Career
Tennant made her television debut at the age of 15 in Peak Practice (1999), playing Nicki Davey.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106097/fullcredits#cast|title=Peak Practice (1999)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} Tennant has appeared in television dramas such as The Second Quest and Like Father Like Son. She played downtrodden Alice Harding in the ITV drama Where the Heart Is in 2004 and 2005{{cite web
| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0747294 | title= Where the Heart Is 1997' | publisher=IMDb | access-date=13 September 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} and has performed alongside her father Peter Davison in Fear, Stress & Anger{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0069418/|title=Fear, Stress and Anger (2007)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} and The Last Detective.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772526/|title=The Last Detective (2007)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}}
In 2007, she made her theatrical debut as Mathilde Verlaine in Total Eclipse at London's Menier Chocolate Factory.{{cite web|url=http://www.movietome.com/people/187852/georgia-moffett/trivia.html|title=Georgia Moffett Trivia|publisher=Movietome|access-date=15 September 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106061758/http://www.movietome.com/people/187852/georgia-moffett/trivia.html|archive-date=6 January 2010}} In May 2008, Tennant appeared in the BBC series Doctor Who as the Tenth Doctor's artificially-created daughter, Jenny, in the episode "The Doctor's Daughter", with her future husband David Tennant playing the Doctor{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/05_may/10/who.shtml|title=Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter| publisher=BBC Press Office| date=10 May 2008| access-date=13 September 2009}} (her father Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor in the 1980s). In August 2008, Tennant starred in series one of BBC Three's spy spin-off Spooks: Code 9 as Kylie Roman.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/07_july/16/spooks4.shtml|title= Spooks: Code 9|publisher=BBC Press Office|date=16 July 2008|access-date=13 September 2009}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/garethmcleanblog/2008/aug/08/asspinoffsgospookscode|title=Spooks: Code 9|newspaper=The Guardian|date=8 August 2008|access-date=8 September 2009|location=London|first=Gareth|last=McLean}}
Tennant voiced the role of Cassie Rice in Doctor Who: Dreamland in 2009,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494933/|title=Doctor Who Dreamland (2009)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} and portrayed Lady Vivian in the "Sweet Dreams" episode of the BBC drama Merlin.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1553722/|title=Merlin (2009)|website=IMDb |access-date=15 December 2009}}{{unreliable source?|date=February 2023}} She joined the cast of BBC medical drama Casualty as junior doctor Heather Whitefield, her character was killed off at the start of her second episode.
In June 2010, she performed in the short play Hens, which ran for four performances at the Riverside Studios and was later broadcast on Sky Arts 2,{{cite web |title=Sky Arts |work=Playhouse Live |url=http://www.skyarts.co.uk/theatre-drama/article/playhouse-live/ |access-date=16 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822150358/http://www.skyarts.co.uk/theatre-drama/article/playhouse-live/ |archive-date=22 August 2010 }} and played a cameo role in the television drama Thorne: Sleepyhead as the wife of one of the junior detectives (appearing in one scene in episode two, and one non-speaking scene in episode three). In March 2011, she landed the role of Emma in the BBC Three sitcom White Van Man,{{cite magazine|last=Webb |first=Claire |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-03-22/qa-with-white-van-man-star-georgia-moffett |title=Q&A with White Van Man star Georgia Moffett |magazine=Radio Times |date=22 March 2011 |access-date=12 November 2013}} which ran for two series before being cancelled. In May 2012, Tennant made her West End debut in the play What the Butler Saw at the Vaudeville Theatre in London.{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8831331827641/McInnerny,+Bond+%26+Moffett+join+Djalili+in+What+the+Butler+Saw.html|title=McInnerny, Bond & Moffett join Djalili in What the Butler Saw|access-date=21 April 2012}} The play received poor reviews and ticket sales, and on 13 July the production announced via their website that the play had been cancelled and would be ending the following week, a month earlier than scheduled.{{Cite news|first=Michael|last=Billington|title=What the Butler Saw – review|work=The Guardian|date=17 May 2012}}{{cite web|title=What the Butler Saw |url=http://www.theatreforum.com/index.php?/topic/46618-what-the-butler-saw/page-4 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140629152337/http://www.theatreforum.com/index.php?/topic/46618-what-the-butler-saw/page-4 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2014 |access-date=28 June 2014 }}{{Cite news|first=Charles|last=Spencer|title=Joe Orton's 1967 comic masterpiece is given a sadistically unfunny adaptation|work=The Telegraph|date=17 May 2012}}
In November 2013, Tennant appeared in and produced the Doctor Who homage anniversary webcast The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot; as a producer she was credited under her married name of Georgia Tennant (though her initial acting appearances were credited under Georgia Moffett). It was written and directed by her father, and featured cameo appearances by her husband and her two older children (she was at the time of filming heavily pregnant with her third, and the webcast features a scripted scene of her going into labour).
Tennant produced and starred in a short film opposite her husband David Tennant called 96 Ways To Say I Love You, which premiered at the London Independent Film Festival in April 2015.{{cite web|last1=Hewitt|first1=Susan|title=REVIEW: 96 Ways To Say I Love You – An Entertaining & Funny Short|url=http://www.david-tennant-news.com/review-96-ways-to-say-i-love-you-an-entertaining-funny-short/|website=www.david-tennant-news.com|access-date=11 November 2015|archive-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814055234/https://www.david-tennant-news.com/review-96-ways-to-say-i-love-you-an-entertaining-funny-short/|url-status=dead}} In 2017, she returned to acting with a small role in BBC drama miniseries In the Dark, credited as Georgia Tennant.BBC – In the Dark pages: [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y7p10] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ysx09] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zj2wv] [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09052h3] (Accessed 5 August 2017) That same year, she produced a comedy film starring her husband called You, Me and Him. In 2018, the first series of the Big Finish audio drama Jenny: The Doctor’s Daughter was released, with Tennant reprising her role from the 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter" as the protagonist. The second series was released in 2021,{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who's Jenny returns to meet an "old enemy" in spin-off {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jenny-still-running-big-finish-newsupdate/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}} with the third series following in 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-22 |title=Georgia Tennant to be Joined by Her Staged Co-Star For Big Finish’s Jenny: The Doctor’s Daughter |url=https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024/08/23/georgia-tennant-to-be-joined-by-her-staged-co-star-for-big-finishs-jenny-the-doctors-daughter/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=The Doctor Who Companion |language=en-US}} From 2019, she produced her husband's podcast series David Tennant Does a Podcast With...{{Cite web |date=31 January 2019 |title=David Tennant Does A Podcast With... Is Officially Great Britain's Top Podcast |url=http://www.david-tennant.co.uk/2019/01/david-tennant-does-podcast-with-is.html}} In 2020, David Tennant and Michael Sheen{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Minnie |date=10 June 2020 |title=Staged actor David Tennant reveals challenges of filming lockdown comedy |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-06-10/staged-david-tennant-michael-sheen-filming/ |website=Radio Times}} starred in the six-part comedy Staged, filmed during the COVID-19 lockdown, with Tennant producing the series and also acting in a supporting role. She reprised her role in the second and third series of the show.{{Cite web |title=David Tennant and Michael Sheen return for Staged season 2 on BBC {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/staged-david-tennant-michael-sheen-confirm-season-2/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Staged series 3 is coming to the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/staged-series-3-bbc |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}
In the 2022 television series The Horne Section she played the part of Ash. {{Cite web |title=Greg Davies and Georgia Tennant join Alex Horne's new show {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/horne-section-tv-show-cast-greg-davies-newsupdate/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}} In the same year, she lent her voice to dog Kika in the British television series Dog Squad.{{Citation |title=Dog Squad |date=2022-11-07 |type=Animation, Short, Family |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23648386/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |others=Theo Fraser, Georgia Tennant, Miriam Margolyes}}
In 2024, ahead of the release of Rivals, she re-recorded the audiobook of the same title that was released in 1988.{{Cite web |title=Rivals by Jilly Cooper |url=https://www.jillycooper.co.uk/books/rivals/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=The official website of Dame Jilly Cooper |language=en-GB}}
Personal life
Tennant is married to Scottish actor David Tennant as of 2011. The couple live in Chiswick and have five children together including Ty from a previous relationship.
Tennant is a patron of Straight Talking, a charity set up to educate young people about teenage pregnancy.{{cite web|url=http://www.straighttalking.org/Support-us/Our-Patrons |title=Our Patrons |access-date=28 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820013251/http://www.straighttalking.org/Support-us/Our-Patrons |archive-date=20 August 2014 }}
In 2018, Tennant was diagnosed with and successfully treated for early stage cervical cancer.{{cite web|title=Georgia Moffett urges followers to 'never miss a smear test' in cervical screening week awareness post|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/david-tennant-wife-georgia-cervical-cancer-smear-test-a4470771.html|access-date=8 July 2020|work=The Standard|date=16 June 2020}}
She is an outspoken ally to the LGBTQ community, having shared multiple posts in support on her Instagram as well as publicly wearing pins in the colours of trans- and non-binary flags.{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=Robert |date=2024-02-19 |title=David Tennant's wife Georgia showcased powerful trans rights message at Baftas |url=https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/19/david-tennants-wife-georgia-sends-trans-rights-message-baftas-20309459/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Metro |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=James |first=Alastair |date=2023-10-06 |title=Georgia Tennant stands in solidarity with trans community in 'furious' message |url=https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/georgia-tennant-trans-support-449086/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Attitude |language=en-GB}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class = "wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2015
| 96 Ways to Say I Love You | Olive |
| 2016
|The Exit | |
| 2017
|Alison |Feature film; also producer |
| 2020
| Screening | Prime Minister | Short film |
| 2025
|style="background:#FFFFCC;"|The Birds and the Bees{{dagger|alt=Not yet released}} | |Short film; executive producer |
=Television=
=Audio=
Stage
| class = "wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2007
| Eclipse of the Heart | Mathilde Verlaine |
| 2010
| Hens | Leila |
| 2012
| Geraldine Barclay |
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