Peter Davison

Peter Davison
Davison at the MagicCity ComicCon on 16 January 2016.
Born	Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (1951-04-13) 13 April 1951 (age 65) Streatham, London, England
Spouse(s)	Diane J. Russell (1973–1975) (divorced) Sandra Dickinson (1978–1994) (divorced) Elizabeth Morton (2003–present)
Children	Georgia Moffett (born 1984) Louis Moffett (born 1999) Joel Moffett (born 2001)

Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett on 13 April 1951) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. Also, he played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.

Davison was born Peter Moffett in Streatham, London, where he attended Granton Primary School. The family then moved to Knaphill in Surrey. During this time, Davison was a member of an amateur theatre company called the Byfleet Players. Before becoming an actor, he gained three O-levels at Winston Churchill School, St John's, Woking, Surrey, and then had several odd jobs, including a stint as a mortuary attendant and a Hoffman Press operator.

Davison studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first job was as an actor and assistant stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse. He chose the stage name Peter Davison to avoid confusion with the actor and director Peter Moffatt, with whom Davison later worked.

In 1973, aged 21, Davison married Diane Russell. They divorced two years later.

His first television work was a 1975 episode of the children's science fiction television programme The Tomorrow People, alongside American actress Sandra Dickinson, whom he married on 26 December 1978. Davison portrayed an alien named "Elmer", who arrives on Earth along with his sister (played by Dickinson) and his mother, known as "the Mama" (played by Margaret Burton).