Katy Manning
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| Katy Manning | |
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| Born | Catherine Anne Manning October 14, 1949 Guildford, Surrey, UK |
| Years active | 1970 - present |
Katy Manning (born October 14, 1949 in Guildford, Surrey)[1] is a British actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.[2] She has also made many theatre appearances, and is now a citizen of Australia.[3] She is famously myopic. [4]
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Katy's father was sports columnist J. L. Manning. As the result of a car accident she spent a year in hospital at sixteen and at eighteen went to America and was offered a five-year contract with MGM. Returning to England, Manning trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.[5], then joined a Wolverhampton repertory company and made her debut in "Man At The Top" (1970).
In 1975 she married Raynor Burton, but the marriage lasted only three months.[5] She gave birth to twins in 1978 with Dean Harris whom she later married.[5] She has been with current partner Barry Crocker since 1990.[6][7]
[edit] Doctor Who
She played the part of Jo from 1971 to 1973 alongside Jon Pertwee's incarnation of the Doctor. Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars, Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) and Roger Delgado (the Master). Fans of Doctor Who often refer to these characters as the UNIT family — UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, being the fictional United Nations squad that the Doctor worked for. Manning moved to Australia and was also seen in a famous Ruby Wax segment with long time childhood friend Liza Minnelli. [7]
Manning's connection with "Doctor Who" continues: she is also the voice of the Time Lady Iris Wildthyme in several of the Big Finish Productions audio plays. In 1978 she aroused controversy when she posed naked with an original Dalek prop for the glamour magazine Girl Illustrated.[8] She laughed the furore off, stating "You'd have to pretty well put me under a microscope to see anything!" To which Jon Pertwee was quoted as saying "Typical Katy!"[citation needed] In 2005 Manning also appeared in Doctor Who - Inside The TARDIS with two of the doctors, Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker, where they spoke of their experiences with the long running show.[9]
[edit] Later career
Katy Manning wrote the TV series Private Wives and has been involved in other writing and direction projects. [10][7] She appeared on stage in Australia when she appeared in the play Run For Your Wife, during (1987-1988), and the production toured the country. Other members of the cast in the production were Jack Smethurst, David McCallum and Eric Sykes. She has also appeared in the low budget film noir movie When Darkness Falls.
In June and July of 2007 she appeared as Yvette in the stage show 'Allo 'Allo alongside Gorden Kaye as Rene Artois at Twelfth Night Theatre in Brisbane. Guy Siner and Sue Hodge also reprised their original roles from the television series and the other characters were portrayed by various famous Australian actors including Steven Tandy, Chloe Dallimore, Jason Gann, Tony Alcock and David Knijnenburg.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Katy Manning Photos - Katy Manning News - Katy Manning Information
- ^ BBC - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Companions - Jo Grant
- ^ Who's Who of Katy Manning :: ABC Tasmania
- ^ Katy Mannig Exposed
- ^ a b c Katy Manning Bio - Katy Manning Biography - Katy Manning Stories
- ^ http://www.barrycrocker.net/BPP_barry_crocker15feb06.pdf
- ^ a b c Actress Katy Manning :: ABC Queensland
- ^ Katy Manning - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
- ^ The Doctor is in SMH article on the stage show Doctor Who - Inside the TARDIS, dated 29 July 2005
- ^ Cult TV - Profiles - Katy Manning
