Biografia

9 de setembro de 1953 · Brisbane, Queensland, Austrália

Janet Mahoney

1,57 m

The casting call for Tegan (an airline stewardess) in Doctor Who (1963) had a minimum height requirement of 5' 4" as British Airways had that requirement. In her audition with producer John Nathan-Turner, Fielding claimed that her height (5'2") was the minimum for Australian Airways, so she should be considered for the role. She eventually got the role and was very successful in it, and only later did in come out that she had completely made up the bit about being minimum height.

She was the first non-British actor to play a companion in Doctor Who (1963).

She graduated from the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, with an Arts Degree in Drama. She comes from an academic family. The daughter of a doctor, her two brothers attended the same university as herself - one graduating with a degree in Medicine and the other with a degree in Dentistry.

Retired from Acting in 1991.

Janet's real surname is not Fielding. She took this surname as her stage name, calling herself after her Grandmother (who was also an actress).

[on her bafflement at the continuing popularity of Doctor Who (1963)] You do find yourself wondering, because the affection endures: "So what is it that people are so very fond of?".

Dinosaurs have 50 years' worth of male Dr Whos to watch in their basements. The rest of us want to embrace the future.