The Worst Witch was Georgina Sherrington's first ever acting role. She decided that she wanted to be an actress
when she went to one of her friend's drama workshops at age seven. One day the Worst Witch production team arrived,
looking for children to star in their new series, and Georgina, after a few auditions, was picked out to play Mildred.
Sadly Georgina hasn't done any more acting work since the Weirdsister College series finished a couple of years ago.
She won the "Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Actress" at the Twenty-First Annual Young Artists
Awards (1998-1999), beating two other American candidates. She had to go to Hollywood to collect her award!
The Internet Movie Database places her date of birth as in the year of 1985, and she reportedly stayed at home during
the filming of Weirdsister College as she lived by the set. The IMDb also gives her name as "Ann Georgina Sherrington"
- I do not know why this is.
30th May 2006: a new Wikipedia article states that she was born in Ecuador (as the above name), and is currently at Princeton
University (yes, the Ivy League university in the US, which would be why we haven't seen her around here for a while!) studying
English. According to the article, she continues to act, and is a member of Theater Intime, Princeton's student
run dramatic society, is on the board of the Princeton Shakespeare Company and in April this year directed a production of
Love's Labour's Lost. An apparant quote from one of her friends is given:
"Although this comes as no surprise to her biggest fans, Georgie is a shining light in the theater community, and has
won hearts and minds throughout the Princeton community with her merest glances!"
This link takes you to a page with a photo of some of the participants. Someone who looks like Georgina appars
to be in the second row from the top, on the right next to the woman in the orange boiler suit.
Click here for more information and interviews with Georgina:
