India Fisher

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India Fisher
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Fisher in 2004
Born
India Fisher

(1974-09-10) 10 September 1974 (age 49)
Stoke-on-Trent, England
Occupation(s) Presenter, Actress, Narrator
Employer BBC
Known for Doctor Who (Big Finish) Voice Actress

India Fisher (born 10 September 1974) is a British actress, narrator and presenter. Her father is the ex-MP Mark Fisher. [1] She is also the stepsister of musician Crispin Hunt and of actress Francesca Hunt, who appears with her in the play Other Lives .

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She has appeared in several episodes of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Elephants to Catch Eels . [2] She provided the voice for the character of Sophia Winchell in the BBC.co.uk flash-animated webcast series Ghosts of Albion . Between 2001 and 2009, she voiced the character Charley Pollard for Doctor Who , which was part of the Big Finish audio range. She has been in various stories alongside both the Sixth Doctor and the Eighth Doctor. She came back in 2013, in The Light at the End , a two-part 50th Anniversary audio story released on CD in the same year.

On TV, she has appeared in the television series Dead Ringers , and narrates BBC One's cookery programme MasterChef . She also performs voiceovers for television advertisements.

Science fiction voice work

Fisher has provided voices on a number of Science Fiction audio dramas:

Other voice work

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