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Katy Manning (born 15 October 1946, Guildford, Surrey, England) 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 a citizen of Australia. In 2009 Manning moved back to the UK to pursue new acting work and currently lives in London. Manning's father was sports columnist J. L. Manning OBE. As the 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... MORE

Katy Manning (born 15 October 1946, Guildford, Surrey, England) 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 a citizen of Australia. In 2009 Manning moved back to the UK to pursue new acting work and currently lives in London. Manning's father was sports columnist J. L. Manning OBE. As the 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). She is myopic. 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 LESS