Georgia Byng
| Georgia Byng | |
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Byng in 2016
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6 September 1966 Winchester, England, United Kingdom |
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| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire |
| Alma mater | Central School of Speech and Drama |
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| Notable works | Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism |
| Children | 3 |
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Lady Georgia Byng (born 6 September 1966) is a British children's writer, illustrator, actress and film producer.
Georgia Byng was born on 6 September 1966, in London, England. She grew up in a village, Abbots Worthy near City of Winchester in Hampshire. She has three brothers and one sister. She is the elder daughter and second child of Thomas Edmund Byng, the eighth Earl of Strafford and his first wife, Jennifer May (daughter of Irish politician William Morrison May. Byng is the elder sister of Jamie Byng, publisher of Canongate Books. Through her stepfather, Christopher Bland, the former chairman of the BBC's Board of Governors (the forerunner of the BBC Trust), British Telecom, the Royal Shakespeare Company, London Weekend Television and a number of other companies, Byng is the half-sister of Archie Bland, Guardian writer and sub editor.
Byng was educated at Princess Mead School, Winchester, Nethercliffe School, Winchester then from 12 years old at Westonbirt School, an independent boarding school for girls in Gloucestershire. She went to Peter Symonds, a sixth form college in Winchester. From 1984 - 1987 she attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, a constituent college of the University of London in central London.
Byng worked as an actress from 1989 to 1990, appearing in the television series Screen Two, Dealers, and Capstick's Law.
While pursuing her acting career, Byng began writing comic strips, and illustrating. After her initial success in this field, she gave up acting to write full-time. Her first published book was a comic strip story, The Sock Monsters. Byng's best-known work is Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism, a book about a girl who finds a book about hypnotism and learns how to hypnotise people. In later books, Molly learns to use other powers such as stopping time, travelling through time, reading minds, and morphing into other forms. The sixth book in the Molly Moon series was released in 2012. Byng co-wrote the screenplay for Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism, the movie of her first book. Byng is with Caradoc King at London agency, United Agents.
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