How life changes. Now the 10-year-old from Ilkley has been plucked from obscurity to star in the £110m blockbuster family film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, based on the classic novels by CS Lewis.
With its London premiere next Wednesday and several sequels in the pipeline the Moorfield School pupil has surely taken the first step on the road to movie megastardom.
"I don't want to sound selfish or anything, but I kind of like being in the spotlight," she says as preparations for the big night gather pace.
"It's nice to be noticed. I got to go to New Zealand and the Czech Republic and London to make the movie, but I do have a kind of balance because I can always go back up to Yorkshire and be my old self.
"You don't get any of this kind of glamour up there."
Debatable, but at least the White Rose County did provide the youngster with her first shot at acting.
She was spotted in her school's Christmas play at five-and-a-half when the rest of the cast were double her age.
Gill Jackson, a drama teacher at the school who has worked with the young starlet for the past four years says: "She has always had a talent. I knew she could do it – she could ad lib and improvise even at that age."
Georgie's talent developed further at the Upstagers amateur dramatics society in Ilkley where she appeared in a production of Monster Mash and as a Morris
dancer in a separate production.
Mrs Jackson, who heads Upstagers, brought Georgie to the attention of Pippa Hall, London casting director for the Narnia
film.
"I told the casting agent that they ought to come and have a look at some of the youngsters from Upstagers," the teacher says.
"It took some effort to pin her down, but she ended up coming here."
Georgie was an instant hit and landed the lead role of Lucy Pevensie – the little girl who discovers the magical world of Narnia at the back of a wardrobe – ahead of 2,000 other hopefuls.
Although not a complete novice she had never acted seriously before that success and admits it was all a little nail-biting.
"I got a bit nervous at first and kept messing it up," she blushes. "That's why they did take after take after take.
"But they told me they had to do it that way because then they could get lots of cuts," she adds.
Georgie was whisked away from Ilkley to film in New Zealand, where she found herself acting alongside some of the biggest British actors in the business, such as Jim Broadbent and Tilda Swinton.
Far from being fazed by her illustrious company she was to put some of her fellow actors firmly in their place.
Shocked at some of the ripe language from the older stars, she organised a swear bucket and says the worst offender was an up-and-coming actor James McAvoy, of hit TV show Shameless fame.
"He swore on the first day and I made him put four New Zealand dollars in the bucket," she giggles.
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, one of seven stories making up the Chronicles of Narnia, sees Lucy and her two brothers and sister meeting a host of mythical characters including Mr and Mrs Beaver – Dawn French and Ray Winstone – and the noble lion Aslan – Liam Neeson.
"Sometimes we had to act against nothing, like the scene where there is a frozen waterfall, and it's quite hard because we had to pretend that we had fallen at great speed down the river," Georgie says.
"You have to imagine that you're searching for breath and that you're really, really scared," she adds.
"Inside, being Georgie, instead of Lucy, you're really thinking, 'Oh I'm so cold. I'm so wet,' so it's just the power of imagination really."
From North Yorkshire to Hollywood and back again at the age of ten. Imagine that.
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