Pollyanna Georgina Terry It was not long before Nancy saw her -- the slender little girl in the red-checked gingham with two fat braids of flaxen hair hanging down her back. Beneath the straw hat, an eager, freckled little face turned to the right and to the left, plainly searching for some one. -- From Pollyanna, 'Chapter III, The Coming of Pollyanna' Georgina Terry was ten when she was called to audition for the title role in Eleanor H. Porter's classic story. "I was rung up to ask if I could go to the audition and I wasn't sure if I wanted to go, because I would miss playing in a tennis tournament," she recalls. "My mum rang up an actor friend who said it would be like winning the lottery to get that part. But my dad said 'There's no way you're going; it's a waste of time!'" Fortunately, Georgina and Fiona followed the advice of their friend! "Mum came back to London with me and we read the book of Pollyanna on the train -- acting out all the parts! Everyone was staring at us!" Georgina has been involved in plays at school twice a year, and recalls that she was only three or four when she first went on stage at nursery school. But, although she has appeared in commercials and short films, Pollyanna is her first venture into a major television film. She loved dressing up in the period costumes of Pollyanna. "I thought they would be more uncomfortable but they were lovely to wear. I also loved the scenes driving down this very steep hill. I wasn't scared, though there was a strong smell of petrol in the car." Her scenes with a stray dog also held some trepidation for her: "I had to carry him in and he was very heavy and very wet!" During the busy filming schedule, Georgina had to keep up with her school studies; she also found time to keep a diary, lavishly illustrated with pictures she took on a disposable camera. Georgina, now 12, has an older sister and brother and lives in north London. She likes J-Lo and eating chocolate and thinks she might want to be a director after finishing her school and university education. "But I wouldn't mind being an actor either," she adds.