Creator / Sarah Sutton

Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961 in Basingstoke, England) is a British actress. She's best known for having played the character of Nyssa, companion to the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, in the science fiction television series Doctor Who. Nyssa was famous for her "fairy skirt" in her first few stories and for losing her (non-fairy) skirt in her final story, "Terminus". She returned to Doctor Who, sort of, making a cameo as herself in "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot".

Besides playing Nyssa, Sutton has appeared on other serials such as in The Moon Stallion and television adaptations of Alice Through the Looking Glass as well as The Crucible.

Her roles in works with pages on TV Tropes:

TV

• Play for Today, episode "Baby Blues" (1973) — Little Lavinia
• The Moon Stallion, 6 episodes (1978) — Diana Purwell
• Doctor Who: 48 episodes / 14 stories^{show list} "The Keeper of Traken", "Logopolis", "Castrovalva", "Four to Doomsday", "Kinda", "The Visitation", "Black Orchid", "Earthshock", "Time-Flight", "Arc of Infinity", "Snakedance", "Mawdryn Undead", "Terminus", "The Caves of Androzani" (1981-84) — Nyssa / Ann Talbot^note "Black Orchid" only
• CASUAL+Y, episode "Charity" (1989) — Sarah Dryden
• Children in Need: "Dimensions in Time"^note Doctor Who / Eastenders crossover (1993) — Nyssa
• The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013) — Herself

Audio Play

• Big Finish Doctor Who:
  • Main Range: 53 releases^{show list} , "The Land of the Dead", "Winter for the Adept", "The Mutant Phase", "Primeval", "Spare Parts", "Creatures of Beauty", "Zagreus" - Miss Foster "The Game", "Circular Time", "Renaissance of the Daleks", "Return to the Web Planet", "The Haunting of Thomas Brewster", "The Boy That Time Forgot", "Time Reef / A Perfect World", "Castle of Fear", "The Eternal Summer", "Plague of the Daleks", "Cobwebs", "The Whispering Forest", "The Cradle of the Snake", "The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories", "Heroes of Sontar", "Kiss of Death", "Rat Trap", "The Emerald Tiger", "The Jupiter Conjunction", "The Butcher of Brisbane", "1001 Nights", "Eldrad Must Die!", "The Lady Of Mercia", "Prisoners Of Fate", "1963: Fanfare For the Common Men", "Moonflesh", "Tomb Ship", "Masquerade", "Mistfall", "Equilibrium", "The Entropy Plague", "The Waters of Amsterdam", "Aquitaine", "The Peterloo Massacre", "The Star Men", "The Contingency Club", "Zaltys", "Alien Heart/Dalek Soul", "Time In Office", "Kingdom of Lies", "Ghost Walk", "Serpent in the Silver Mask", "Tartarus", "Interstitial/Feast of Fear", "Warzone/Conversion", "Thin Time/Madquake" (1999-2020) — Nyssa
  • The Companion Chronicles: "The Darkening Eye" (2008) — Nyssa
  • Special Releases: 2 releases^{show list} "The Five Companions", "The Light At The End" (2011, 2013) — Nyssa
  • The Lost Stories: 3 releases^{show list} "The Elite", "Hexagora", "The Children of Seth" (2011) — Nyssa
  • The Fifth Doctor Adventures: 7 releases^{show list} "Psychodrome", "The Iterations of I", "[Big Finish Doctor Who 5 DAS 2 E 1 The Lost Resort The Lost Resort]]", "The Perils of Nellie Bly", "Nightmare of the Daleks" (2014, 2021-22) — Nyssa
  • Short Trips: 6 releases^{show list} "The King of the Dead", "The Toy", "A Heart On Both Sides", "The Mistpuddle Murders", "The Second Oldest Question", "Downward Spiral" (2015-20) — Narrator
  • Novel Adaptations: "Cold Fusion" (2016) — Nyssa
  • The War Master: "The Orphan" (2021) — Nyssa
• BBV Productions: "Race Memory" (2001) — Sarah

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