{"id":396174,"date":"2026-01-09T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396174\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:00:08","slug":"david-tennant-officially-adopts-stage-name-wife-georgia-joins-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396174\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tennant officially adopts stage name, wife Georgia joins him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottish actor David Tennant and his wife, Georgia Moffett, have both formally changed their legal last names.<\/p>\n

According to People<\/a>, the \u201cDoctor Who\u201d<\/a> star, who was born David McDonald, is now officially David Tennant. Moffett has followed suit, officially changing her name to Georgia Tennant. <\/p>\n

While the 54-year-old actor has gone by the last name \u201cTennant\u201d professionally for years, it was never official until now. He originally adopted the surname at the start of his career to avoid confusion with another actor named David McDonald, as reported by The Independent<\/a> in 2005.<\/p>\n

When he and Moffett married in 2011, she kept her last name. <\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Tennant and Georgia Moffett attend the 2025 BAFTA Scotland Awards held at DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central on November 16, 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Euan Cherry\/BAFTA\/Getty Images for BAFTA)Getty Images for BAFTA<\/p>\n

Per People, their newly minted shared surname was recently reflected on a UK government website through the registration of their business, Sandyboy Limited. Additionally, legal records show that the pair underwent verification checks to confirm their identities; David completed his on January 5, followed by Georgia the next day.<\/p>\n

Moffett\u2019s legal name includes her middle name, making her Georgia Elizabeth Moffett.<\/p>\n

Tennant, who is 13 years his wife\u2019s senior, met Moffett on the set of \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d She starred alongside him as his genetically engineered daughter, Jenny, for the 2008 episode \u201cThe Doctor\u2019s Daughter.\u201d Georgia has also appeared on the TV series \u201cStaged\u201d and \u201cThe Horne Section TV Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

They got married three years later, and now share five kids: Ty, 23, Olive, 14, Wilfred, 12, Doris, 10 and Birdie, 5. Ty was Moffett\u2019s son from a past relationship, whom Tennant adopted in 2011.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s brood appears to be following in their footsteps. Ty has acting credits in the \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d series and on \u201cHouse of Dragon\u201d Season 1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Olive can be seen on the TV series \u201cAvoidance\u201d and in the films \u201cBelfast\u201d and \u201cYou, Me, and Him,\u201d the latter of which her parents also appeared in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish actor David Tennant and his wife, Georgia Moffett, have both formally changed their legal last names. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6234,236,88,6235],"class_list":{"0":"post-396174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-topix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}