Caroline Langrishe - Georgina Channing QC
Georgina Channing QC is John Deed’s ex-wife and a very successful lawyer. Deed calls her “The Ice Maiden” because of her ability to disengage her emotions, and it is this ability - combined with her intelligence, ambition and impeccable connections (her father Sir George Channing, played by Donald Sinden, is a Lord Justice of Appeal) – that has got her to where she is today: a highly-paid and esteemed corporate lawyer.
Georgina and Deed are like chalk and cheese. Whereas he was born into a working-class family on a council estate in Coventry, she was brought up in a very traditional upper-middle class way.
They are both brilliant intellectually, but whilst Deed has dedicated his career to championing the underdog, Georgina has thrown in her lot with the rich and powerful, and done very well for herself as a result.
When they met and married they were passionately in love; she was attracted to his unconventionality and radicalism, he to her wit and beauty - but soon their marriage became a battle of wills and ended in divorce while their daughter Charlie was still a child.
Unusually, it was Deed and not Georgina who took custody of Charlie. A clear indication that she considered she had better things to do with her time than stay at home and be a wife and mother.
Caroline Langrishe, who plays the role, has her own take on the relationship between Georgina and Deed: “I think they had one of those sexy relationships in which people fight a lot and then make up a lot. Even now that they’re divorced, there’s still a sexiness between them. He’s a sexy man and she’s a sexy woman and they’re sexy because they’re brainy and they try to outwit each other.”
The love-hate nature of their relationship provides some humorous interchanges when Georgina appears as prosecuting counsel in a case brought before Deed in episode two. Caroline explains: “She has a sort of intimacy with him and she can’t help but bring her personal feelings towards Deed into the courtroom.
They get into a sort of marital spat and he gets enormous pleasure out of having total authority over her in the courtroom At the end of the episode she gives him a bit of a snog and then tells him to bugger off, it’s a sort of game they play.”
Caroline was delighted to land the role: “It’s a fantastic part, it’s absolutely great to play women like Georgina. She’s very witty, so I get all the best lines in the bitchy scenes, and there’s a bit of sexiness about her too. It’s wonderful to play someone that confident and brazen. If I met her, I would probably be a little bit intimidated by her; by her confidence and her sense of rightness and authority.
I’m always playing bitches although I prefer to use the word ‘witty’ - if there’s a villainess to be had, you can bet your bottom dollar there’s a good chance it’s going to be me.”
They are both brilliant intellectually, but whilst Deed has dedicated his career to championing the underdog, Georgina has thrown in her lot with the rich and powerful, and done very well for herself as a result.
When they met and married they were passionately in love; she was attracted to his unconventionality and radicalism, he to her wit and beauty - but soon their marriage became a battle of wills and ended in divorce while their daughter Charlie was still a child.
Unusually, it was Deed and not Georgina who took custody of Charlie. A clear indication that she considered she had better things to do with her time than stay at home and be a wife and mother.
Caroline Langrishe, who plays the role, has her own take on the relationship between Georgina and Deed: “I think they had one of those sexy relationships in which people fight a lot and then make up a lot. Even now that they’re divorced, there’s still a sexiness between them. He’s a sexy man and she’s a sexy woman and they’re sexy because they’re brainy and they try to outwit each other.”
The love-hate nature of their relationship provides some humorous interchanges when Georgina appears as prosecuting counsel in a case brought before Deed in episode two. Caroline explains: “She has a sort of intimacy with him and she can’t help but bring her personal feelings towards Deed into the courtroom.
They get into a sort of marital spat and he gets enormous pleasure out of having total authority over her in the courtroom At the end of the episode she gives him a bit of a snog and then tells him to bugger off, it’s a sort of game they play.”
Caroline was delighted to land the role: “It’s a fantastic part, it’s absolutely great to play women like Georgina. She’s very witty, so I get all the best lines in the bitchy scenes, and there’s a bit of sexiness about her too. It’s wonderful to play someone that confident and brazen. If I met her, I would probably be a little bit intimidated by her; by her confidence and her sense of rightness and authority.
I’m always playing bitches although I prefer to use the word ‘witty’ - if there’s a villainess to be had, you can bet your bottom dollar there’s a good chance it’s going to be me.”
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