Sarah Sutton

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Sarah Sutton
Sutton in 2013
Born	(1961-12-12) 12 December 1961 (age 59) Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1973–present
Known for	Nyssa in Doctor Who
Spouse(s)	Mike
Children	1

Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961) is a British actress. She played the role of Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Early life

Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as a little girl^[1] 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. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh.^[2] She made her first appearance as Baby Roo ^[3] just 5 days after her 9th birthday at the Phoenix Theatre^[4] 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.^[1]

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. 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, Hannah, with her GP husband, Mike.^[5] 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^[6] from 1999 onwards. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.^[7] In 1997 she starred in an episode of the BBC’s dramatic reconstruction series 999.

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.^[8]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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
1981	Byron: A Personal Tour	Mary Chaworth	TV film
1981–1983	Doctor Who	Nyssa	48 episodes
1982	Doctor Who	Ann Talbot	Episode: "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" (2 charity special mini-episodes)

Radio and CD audio drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999–2002	Soldiers of Love	Colonel Franklyn	MJTV; 7 episodes
2000–present	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	Smoke and Mirrors	Nyssa	Big Finish Productions
2013	The Light at the End	Nyssa	Special release
2015–present	Big Finish Short Trips	Nyssa	6 releases
2016	Cold Fusion	Nyssa	Novel Adaptation

References

^ a b Eramo, Steve. "Doctor Who's Sarah Sutton - A Touch of Nobility". SciFi and TV Talk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ A.A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh
^ Baby Roo
^ The Phoenix Theatre
^ "The Galactic Orphan". Doctor Who Magazine (218): 7–10. 26 October 1994 – via Amazon.co.uk.
^ Gallagher, William (23 November 2013). "Doctor Who 50th: 'A shiver ran through me the moment I wrote my first line for the Doctor'". Radio Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
^ "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot". BBC. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
^ The Jarillion Mercy

External links

Sarah Sutton at IMDb

[typepad.com-1] Eramo, Steve. "Doctor Who's Sarah Sutton - A Touch of Nobility". SciFi and TV Talk. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[2] A.A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh

[3] Baby Roo

[4] The Phoenix Theatre

[5] "The Galactic Orphan". Doctor Who Magazine (218): 7–10. 26 October 1994 – via Amazon.co.uk.

[6] Gallagher, William (23 November 2013). "Doctor Who 50th: 'A shiver ran through me the moment I wrote my first line for the Doctor'". Radio Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[7] "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot". BBC. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

[8] The Jarillion Mercy

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