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- Sarah Sutton was born on 12 December 1961 and began her acting career at the age of seven when, while attending the Elm Hurst Ballet School, she was picked to play the part of Roo in a Phoenix Theatre production of "Winnie the Pooh". By the age of eleven she had landed a number of TV roles, including in "Menace: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" (1973), "Late Call" (1974) and "Oil Strike North" (1975). Her biggest success came when she won the lead in the children's drama serial "The Moon Stallion" (1978). She went back to her acting studies at the Guidhall School of Music and Drama as a part-time student. It ws shortly after taking a Caribbean holiday that she was called to audition for the part of Nyssa in Doctor Who. Following her stint on the series she returned to theatre work, touring in the play "Policy for Murder" (1986). She subsequently got married and had a baby daughter, Hannah, which contributed to her taking a break from acting. She did however win a small role in the TV play "Unnatural Pursuits." She hopes to return to full-time acting when her daughter is older.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Sarah Sutton (born 12 December 1961) is a British actress best known for her role as Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Nyssa was a companion to "Doctors" Tom Baker, then Peter Davison, from 1981 to 1983.
Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as a little girl and was only 11 when she became the youngest British actress to have played Alice on screen, in a 1973 television film of Alice in Wonderland.
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.
After joining the Fourth Doctor in 1981, her final full Doctor Who serial was with the Fifth Doctor, in 1983's Terminus. Sutton, famously, removed her skirt for Terminus, effectively playing out the rest of the serial in her undergarments-the scripted reason being that she was feeling unwell and feverish as well as leaving a clue for The Doctor, though Sutton described it later as "a parting gesture to [the] fans".
Sutton took a break from acting after Doctor Who, focusing for a number of years on raising her daughter, Hannah, with her GP husband, Andrew. 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 1991 episode of Unnatural Pursuits.
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 from 1999 onwards. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.- IMDb mini biography by: Charles Shaw
- SpouseAndrew Johnson (1984 - present) (1 child)
- While playing the fifth Doctor in Docteur Who (1963), Peter Davison preferred Sarah's character Nyssa over all his companions. Whenever John Nathan-Turner attempted to write the character out of the show, Davison talked him out of it.
- Spent her honeymoon at a Doctor Who convention.
- A public library attendant somewhere in darkest Kent.
- One week older than her Doctor Who co-star, Matthew Waterhouse, (Adric).
- I got a phone call from my agent, who said that I was up for a part in 'Doctor Who' and would I go for an interview. I went along for an interview with the director of 'The Keeper of Traken', John Black, and John Nathan-Turner. Very soon after this I was told I'd got the part of Nyssa, thought it was a little while before they asked me to carry on. I was very pleased to do so, and quickly signed on the dotted line because the regular pay was very appealing.
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