Georgina Sherrington Explained

Georgina Sherrington
Birth Date:1985 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Westminster, London, England
Nationality:British
Other Names:Georgina Boote
Known For:The Worst Witch
Weirdsister College
Education:Wimbledon High School
Princeton University
Employer:See-Saw Films
Occupation:Actress
Years Active:1998–present
Spouse:Jeremy Boote
Children:2

Georgina Sherrington (born 26 July 1985) is an English actress. Sherrington portrayed Mildred Hubble in two series beginning with The Worst Witch (1998-2001) and concluding with Weirdsister College. She made a guest appearance in a spin-off The New Worst Witch. She has appeared in several short films.

Career

The Worst Witch

Sherrington is best known for her portrayal of the character of Mildred Hubble in the children's series The Worst Witch (1998–2001), as well as the spin-off series Weirdsister College - The Further Adventures of The Worst Witch (2001),[1] a British/Canadian co-production between ITV and TV Ontario, screened on HBO in North America, ABC in Australia, and on various other networks worldwide. In 2000 she won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Actress for her work in The Worst Witch.

Sherrington reprised her role in the first episode of The New Worst Witch (2005). Her character is seen dropping off her cousin Henrietta Hubble, the titular protagonist at Cackle's Academy for Witches. Sherrington and Clare Coulter were the only cast members to reprise their roles from The Worst Witch.

She shared her memories about The Worst Witch in an interview while working on the short Stop/Eject.[2]

Short films

Sherrington has appeared in several short films including Talk (2010),[3] Steamboat (2011) and Stop/Eject (2014).

Other work

Sherrington relocated back to London in 2010 after spending time in the Los Angeles area. She worked at the BBC in the Drama Commissioning team and several production companies. She is currently working as a development consultant at See-Saw Films.

Personal life

She was a student at Wimbledon High School, London, and graduated from Princeton University in 2008, where she was a member of Princeton Tower Club. At Princeton, she directed Love's Labours Lost in April 2006 and a Shakespeare Festival in 2007,[4] and served as director, assistant director, and actress in various productions in 2007, including The Winter's Tale.[5] [6]

In October 2020, Sherrington announced on her Instagram, she was pregnant with her first child, a boy who was born in February 2021 with her long term partner Jeremy Boote.[7]

She has three younger brothers.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1998–2001 The Worst Witch Almost all Episodes except in S2E9 Genius of the Lamp and S3E11 The Lost Chord
2001 Weirdsister College Series 1 (13 episodes)
2005 The New Worst Witch Episode: Give a Witch a Bad Name (Guest Star)
2010 Talk Girl Short
2011 The White Box The Advisor Short
Steamboat Juliana Short, Writer, Editor and Producer
2012 All in the Method Georgina Episode: The Acting Guru
2013 Stop/Eject Kate Short
2014 Tag Miss Locklee
2015Welcome to Purgatory Skinny Shaitan Renamed Dark Ascension
2016Welcome to Purgatory II: The Journey to Hell Also known as Dark Ascension II: The Journey to Hell [8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Doran . Where are the cast of ITV's The Worst Witch now? . radiotimes.com . RadioTimes.com . 11 January 2017.
  2. Web site: Memoirs of 'The Worst Witch' - with Georgina Sherrington ('Stop/Eject') . youtube.com . YouTube . 15 January 2024 . 1 June 2022.
  3. Web site: Talk (Silent Short Film) . youtube.com . YouTube . 15 January 2024 . 6 September 2010.
  4. http://www.princeton.edu/~psc/history.htm Princeton Shakespeare Company
  5. Web site: Princeton University - Stretching the boundaries of tragedy and comedy.
  6. http://www.princeton.edu/arts/news/archive/shakespeare_tackles_jealo/index.xml Shakespeare Tackles Jealousy at Princeton's Berlind Theatre - Lewis Center for the Arts
  7. Web site: Georgina Sherrington on Instagram: Baby on board... due into the station Feb 2021. Blue face-mask for a boy - a true COVID-themed "gender-reveal" xxx". https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CGAmfV-jtnc . 26 December 2021 . registration. Instagram.
  8. Web site: Tomasz Frymorgen . Gossip Girl is 10 years old, which makes you fully ancient . bbc.co.uk . BBC . 16 January 2024 . 20 September 2017 . Georgina Sherrington now a 32 year-old acting in films like Dark Ascension II: The Journey to Hell..