Sarah Sutton

Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as a child{{cite web |url=http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2010/12/doctor-whos-sarah-sutton-a-touch-of-nobility.html |first=Steve |last=Eramo |title=Doctor Who's Sarah Sutton - A Touch of Nobility |website=SciFi and TV Talk |access-date=5 May 2017}} 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.A.A. Milnes Winnie-the-Pooh She made her first appearance as Baby RooBaby Roo just five days after her ninth birthday at the Phoenix TheatreThe 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.

Sutton portrayed the character of Nyssa, a Trakenite aristocrat, in Doctor Who. She is exactly one week older than her co–star, fellow companion Matthew Waterhouse. 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.{{cite journal |title=The Galactic Orphan |journal=Doctor Who Magazine |issue=218 |pages=7–10 |date=26 October 1994 |via=Amazon.co.uk}} 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 |date=March 2021}}

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{{cite journal |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-23/doctor-who-50th-a-shiver-ran-through-me-the-moment-i-wrote-my-first-line-for-the-doctor |title=Doctor Who 50th: 'A shiver ran through me the moment I wrote my first line for the Doctor' |first=William |last=Gallagher |date=23 November 2013 |journal=Radio Times |access-date=5 May 2017 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924145004/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-23/doctor-who-50th-a-shiver-ran-through-me-the-moment-i-wrote-my-first-line-for-the-doctor |url-status=dead }} from 1999 onwards. In November 2013 she appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lv3mj |title=The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot |work=BBC |access-date=26 November 2013}} 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).{{Citation needed |date=March 2021}}

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

In 1985, Sutton married Michael Bundy, a general practitioner. They have a daughter, Hannah (born 1991).{{cite web|url=http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/bio/sarah-sutton.html|title=Sarah Sutton}}

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