page_title: Katy Manning
section_title: Doctor Who
hierarchical_section_title: Katy Manning / Career / Doctor Who
caption_attribution_description: Ace, Leela &amp; Jo Doctor Who Experience
context_page_description: Catherine Ann "Katy" Manning is an English-Australian 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 lives in London.
context_section_description: 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. Manning is the only surviving Doctor Who companion from Jon Pertwee's era.
  Manning's connection with Doctor Who continues: she voices Jo Grant in the Companion Chronicles Audio Adventures, and she is also the voice of the Time Lord Iris Wildthyme in several of the Big Finish Productions audio plays. In 2005, Manning also appeared in Doctor Who — Inside The TARDIS with two of the Doctors, Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker, who spoke of their experiences with the long-running show.
  She is also involved with fan events and conventions, and she is the patron of the Doctor Who Club of Australia.
  In October 2010, Manning reprised her role as Jo Jones (née Grant) in the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures with Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. The two-part story, entitled 'Death of the Doctor', was written by former executive producer of the programme Russell T Davies. She meets the Doctor again, and stars with her grandchild (one of twelve, soon to be thirteen) Santiago Jones. 
  In November 2013 she appeared as herself in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.
caption: Sophie Aldred, Louise Jameson and Katy Manning at a Doctor Who 50th Anniversary event in 2013
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