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Sarah Sutton | |
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 Sutton at the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend in 2013 | |
| Born | 12 December 1961 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England |
| Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Known for | Nyssa in Doctor Who |
| Spouse | Michael Bundy (m. 1985) |
| Children | 1 |
Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961) [1] is a British actress. She played the role of Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who .
Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as a child [2] and was only 11 when she became the youngest British actress to have played Alice on screen, in a 1973 television film of Alice Through the Looking Glass .
She began acting at the age of nine in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. [3] She made her first appearance as Baby Roo [4] just five days after her ninth birthday at the Phoenix Theatre [5] in the West End of London, 1970–1972.
Besides her performance as Alice, Sutton appeared in a number of television programmes before Doctor Who, including The Moon Stallion (1978) as Diana Purwell and The Crucible (1980) as Susannah Walcott. [2]
Sutton portrayed the character of Nyssa, a Trakenite aristocrat, in Doctor Who. She is exactly one week older than her co–star, fellow companion Matthew Waterhouse . Her first appearance in the role was in the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken . Initially, Nyssa was intended to appear only in one story, the production team later deciding to keep her as a continuing character. After joining the Fourth Doctor in the subsequent story Logopolis , her final full Doctor Who serial was with the Fifth Doctor, in 1983's Terminus .
Sutton took a break from acting after Doctor Who, focusing for a number of years on raising her daughter. [6] She made a brief appearance in Peter Davison's final Doctor Who serial, The Caves of Androzani (1984), played Sarah Dryden in a 1989 episode of the BBC medical drama series Casualty and Wendy in a 1992 episode of Unnatural Pursuits.[ citation needed ]
Sutton reprised the role of Nyssa in the 1993 Doctor Who Children in Need special Dimensions in Time , and subsequently in several of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who spin-off audio plays [7] from 1999 onwards. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot . [8] In 1997 she starred in a special episode of the BBC's dramatic reconstruction series 999 marking 10 years since the great storm of 1987.
Sutton also appeared in several episodes of MJTV's original audio sci-fi CD series Soldiers of Love as Colonel Franklyn. She also played Sharon in the Take 1 Productions educational video drama TravelWise (2000).[ citation needed ]
In 2001 Sutton starred as Sarah in Wirrn: Race Memory, a BBV audio reusing concepts from Doctor Who.
In 2006 Sutton played Asaria, a role written specifically for her in the original science fiction audio monologue The Jarillion Mercy. [9]
In 1985, Sutton married Michael Bundy, a general practitioner. They have a daughter, Hannah (born 1991). [10]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1973 | Menace | Belinda | Episode: "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" |
| Play for Today | Little Lavina | Episode: "Baby Blues" | |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Alice | TV film | |
| 1975 | Late Call | Myra Longmore | 3 episodes |
| Ten from the Twenties | Ina | Episode: "Aunt Tatty" | |
| Oil Strike North | Amanda Fraser | Episode: "Time of Hazard" | |
| 1976 | Westway | Sue Harvey | 5 episodes |
| 1978 | The Moon Stallion | Diana Purwell | All 6 episodes |
| 1981 | The Crucible | Susannah Walcott | TV film |
| Byron: A Personal Tour | Mary Chaworth | TV film | |
| 1981–1984 | Doctor Who | Nyssa | 48 episodes |
| 1982 | Ann Talbot | Serial: "Black Orchid" - 2 episodes | |
| 1989 | Casualty | Sarah Dryden | Episode: "Charity" |
| 1992 | Unnatural Pursits | Wendy | Episode: "I'm the Author" |
| 1993 | Doctor Who | Nyssa | Episode: "Dimensions in Time" (two charity special mini-episodes) |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1999–2002 | Soldiers of Love | Colonel Franklyn | MJTV; 7 episodes |
| 2000–2021 | Doctor Who: The Monthly Range | Nyssa | Big Finish Productions; 64 releases |
| 2001 | Race Memory | Sarah | BBV Productions |
| 2006 | The Jarillion Mercy | Asaria | The Jarillion Productions |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles | Nyssa | Story: "The Darkening Eye" |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: The Lost Stories | Nyssa | 3 releases |
| 2011 | The Five Companions | Nyssa | Special release |
| 2013 | The Light at the End | Nyssa | Special release |
| 2014 | Dark Shadows: The Devil Cat | Emma Simon | Big Finish Productions |
| 2014–present | Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures | Nyssa | 8 releases |
| 2015–present | Big Finish Short Trips | Nyssa | 6 releases |
| 2016 | Cold Fusion | Nyssa | Novel Adaptation |
| 2018 | Star Cops: Mother Earth 2 | Mary Ward | Big Finish Productions |
| 2020 | Timeslip: The Age of the Death Lottery | Charlotte Trent | Big Finish Productions |
| 2020 | Timeslip: The War That Never Was | Charlotte Trent | Big Finish Productions |
| 2023 | Timeslip: A Life Never Lived | Charlotte Trent | Big Finish Productions |
| 2023 | Timeslip: The Time Of The Tipping Point | Charlotte Trent | Big Finish Productions |
| 2021 | The War Master | Nyssa | Story: "The Orphan" |
| 2022 | Tenth Doctor Classic Companions | Nyssa | Story: "The Stuntman" |
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