Katy Manning
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Katy Manning at The Television & Movie Store, Norwich, England, on 17 January 2009.
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| Born |
Catherine Ann Manning 14 October 1946 Guildford, Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Actress, director |
| Known for | Jo Grant in Doctor Who |
| Partner(s) |
Dean Harris (1976-1981) Barry Crocker (1990-2010) |
| Children | Two |
| Website | https://katymanning.com |
Catherine Ann "Katy" Manning (born 14 October 1946) is an English actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She has also made many theatre appearances, and is now an Australian citizen. In 2009 Manning moved back to the UK to pursue new acting work and currently lives in London.
Manning was born in Guildford, Surrey, the daughter of sports columnist J. L. Manning OBE. As a result of a car accident she spent a year in hospital at sixteen. At eighteen she went to America where she was offered a five-year contract with MGM. Returning to Great Britain, Manning trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then joined a Wolverhampton repertory company and made her debut in Man At The Top (1970). This was followed by her debut in BBC drama, with an appearance in Softly, Softly: Taskforce in the episode 'Standing Orders'.
She played the part of Jo Grant (1971–73) 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 organisation that the Doctor worked for. As of 2017[update], Manning is the only surviving Doctor Who companion from Jon Pertwee's era.
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