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 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.
She began acting at the age of nine in A. A. Milne'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 (1980) as Susannah Walcott. 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.
Sutton reprised the role of Nyssa in the 1993 Doctor Who Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, and since 1999 has appeared in multiple spin-off Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. 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).
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.
Personal life
In 1985, Sutton married Michael Bundy, a general practitioner. They have a daughter, Hannah (born 1991).
Filmography
Television
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! Year
! Title
! Role
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| rowspan="3" |1973 || Menace || Belinda || Episode: "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play"
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| Play for Today || Little Lavina || Episode: "Baby Blues"
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| Alice Through the Looking Glass || Alice || TV film
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| rowspan="3" |1975 || Late Call || Myra Longmore || 3 episodes
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| Ten from the Twenties || Ina || Episode: "Aunt Tatty"
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| Oil Strike North || Amanda Fraser || Episode: "Time of Hazard"
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| 1976 || Westway || Sue Harvey || 5 episodes
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| 1978 || The Moon Stallion || Diana Purwell || All 6 episodes
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| rowspan="2" | 1981 || The Crucible || Susannah Walcott || TV film
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| Byron: A Personal Tour || Mary Chaworth || TV film
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| 1981–1984 || rowspan="2" | Doctor Who || Nyssa || 48 episodes
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| 1982 || Ann Talbot || Serial: "Black Orchid" - 2 episodes
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| 1989 || Casualty || Sarah Dryden || Episode: "Charity"
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| 1992 || Unnatural Pursits || Wendy || Episode: "I'm the Author"
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| 1993 || Doctor Who || Nyssa || Episode: "Dimensions in Time" (two charity special mini-episodes)
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Radio and CD audio drama
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! Year
! Title
! Role
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| 1999–2002 || Soldiers of Love || Colonel Franklyn || MJTV; 7 episodes
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| 2000–2021 || Doctor Who: The Monthly Range || Nyssa || Big Finish Productions; 64 releases
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| 2001 || Race Memory || Sarah || BBV Productions
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| 2006 || The Jarillion Mercy|| Asaria || The Jarillion Productions
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| 2008 || Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles || Nyssa || Story: "The Darkening Eye"
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| 2011 || Doctor Who: The Lost Stories || Nyssa || 3 releases
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| 2011 || The Five Companions || Nyssa || Special release
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| 2013 || The Light at the End || Nyssa || Special release
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| 2014 || Dark Shadows: The Devil Cat || Emma Simon || Big Finish Productions
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| 2014–present || Doctor Who: The Fifth Doctor Adventures || Nyssa || 8 releases
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| 2015–present || Big Finish Short Trips || Nyssa || 6 releases
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| 2016 || Cold Fusion || Nyssa || Novel Adaptation
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| 2018 || Star Cops: Mother Earth 2 || Mary Ward || Big Finish Productions
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| 2020 || Timeslip: The Age of the Death Lottery || Charlotte Trent || Big Finish Productions
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| 2020 || Timeslip: The War That Never Was || Charlotte Trent || Big Finish Productions
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| 2023 || Timeslip: A Life Never Lived || Charlotte Trent || Big Finish Productions
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| 2023 || Timeslip: The Time Of The Tipping Point || Charlotte Trent || Big Finish Productions
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| 2021 || The War Master || Nyssa || Story: "The Orphan"
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| 2022 || Tenth Doctor Classic Companions || Nyssa || Story: "The Stuntman"
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