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Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961) is a British actress. She played the role of
Nyssa in the
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science fiction
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television series ''
Doctor Who
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''.
Early life
Sutton was born in
Basingstoke
Basingstoke ( ) is the largest town in the county of Hampshire. It is situated in south-central England and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon, at the far western edge of The North Downs. It is located north-east of Southa ...
,
Hampshire
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, England. Sutton studied
ballet
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as a child
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
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''.
She began acting at the age of nine in
A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winni ...
's Winnie-the-Pooh. She made her first appearance as Baby Roo just five days after her ninth birthday at the
Phoenix Theatre 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
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'' (1980) as Susannah Walcott.
Career
Sutton portrayed the character of Nyssa, a Trakenite aristocrat, in ''Doctor Who''. Her first appearance in the role was in the 1981 serial ''
The Keeper of Traken
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''. 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
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Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from the ...
in the subsequent story ''
Logopolis
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'', her final full ''Doctor Who'' serial was with the
Fifth Doctor
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Within the series' narrative, the Doctor is a centuries-old alien Time Lord from t ...
, in 1983's ''
Terminus
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Geography
*Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United ...
''.
Sutton took a break from acting after ''Doctor Who'', focusing for a number of years on raising her daughter, Hannah, with her
GP husband, Mike. She made a brief appearance in Peter Davison's final ''Doctor Who'' serial, ''
The Caves of Androzani
''The Caves of Androzani'' is the sixth serial of the 21st season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 8 to 16 March 1984.
In the serial, the Doctor ...
'' (1984), played Sarah Dryden in a 1989 episode of the BBC medical drama series ''
Casualty
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**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
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'' and Wendy in a 1992 episode of ''Unnatural Pursuits''.
Sutton reprised the role of Nyssa in the 1993 Doctor Who
Children in Need special ''
Dimensions in Time
''Dimensions in Time'' is a charity special crossover between the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and the soap opera ''EastEnders'' that ran in two parts on 26 and 27 November 1993. It was filmed on location at Greenwich ...
'', and subsequently in several of the
Big Finish Productions
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''Doctor Who'' spin-off
audio plays
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from 1999 onwards. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage ''
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
''The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'' is a 2013 comedy spoof and homage to the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. It appeared on the BBC Red Button service after the broadcast of "The Day of the Doctor", the official 50th ann ...
''. In 1997 she starred in a special episode of the BBC’s dramatic reconstruction series ''
999 999 or triple nine most often refers to:
* 999 (emergency telephone number), a telephone number for the emergency services in several countries
* 999 (number), an integer
* AD 999, a year
* 999 BC, a year
Books
* ''999'' (anthology) or ''999: T ...
'' 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).
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''.
[The Jarillion Mercy]
Filmography
Television
Radio and CD audio drama
References
External links
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Living people
English child actresses
People from Basingstoke
20th-century English actresses
English television actresses
1961 births