Nicola Bryant

Nicola Bryant
Birth date:	11 October 1960
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Peri Brown
Main jobs:	Actor
Main time period active:	1984-1986, 1993, 1998-present
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Casualty, Holby City, My Family, The Mervyn Stone Mysteries, The Night of the Triffids
Twitter
IMDb profile
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Nicola Bryant (born 11 October 1960) played companion Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown from Planet of Fire to Mindwarp. She later reprised the role for Dimensions in Time and has since appeared in many Doctor Who video and audio spin-offs.

She played the part from 1984 to 1986, first with Peter Davison and then with Colin Baker as the Doctor. Bryant's tenure on the show was met with raised eyebrows in some quarters. Series producer John Nathan-Turner admitted that his intention was to pump up the sex appeal of the ageing series. The young actress was often seen wearing revealing outfits. Her character was American and for a while a publicity-driven fiction was maintained suggesting Bryant was also American. During her final season on Doctor Who, the actress was allowed to dress more conservatively on the show.

After appearing in Doctor Who she has had other television roles, including a part in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. In the early-mid 1990s, she also co-starred with Baker in a series of made-for-video science fiction films entitled The Stranger for BBV Productions. The first few films in the series were little more than Doctor Who episodes in disguise. She also appeared alongside Baker, Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Jon Pertwee in another BBV production, The Airzone Solution, which is notable for a love scene between Baker and Bryant.

Bryant has reprised the role of Peri in several of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who spin-off audio drama. She has appeared with both Peter Davison and Colin Baker in these. She has also directed several audio dramas for Big Finish.

According to her official website, Bryant's acting in recent years has been limited by a back injury suffered during a fall on stage in the early 2000s but she has continued to work on Big Finish audio productions during her recuperation. In February 2006, she returned to live performances, appearing in a New End Theatre production of Taboos, a play by Carl Djerassi. She has also appeared in DVD interviews for Doctor Who stories in which she was involved, and has recorded commentary tracks, usually alongside Colin Baker.

A mock interview with comic strip character Frobisher appeared in Doctor Who Magazine. It mentions Frobisher had an unwelcome interest in Nicola. It was reprinted in The World Shapers graphic novel.

In 2013, Nicola appeared on a Doctor Who edition of the TV game show Pointless Celebrities and partnered up with Andrew Hayden-Smith. She also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who.

Acting credits

Television

Doctor Who

• Planet of Fire
• The Caves of Androzani
• The Twin Dilemma
• Attack of the Cybermen
• Vengeance on Varos
• The Mark of the Rani
• The Two Doctors
• Timelash
• Revelation of the Daleks
• The Mysterious Planet
• Mindwarp

Webcasts

The Collection Blu-Ray Trailers

• The Sixth Doctor is on trial AGAIN! - Herself

Audio dramas

BBC Audio

• Slipback

Big Finish Monthly Range

• Whispers of Terrors
• Red Dawn
• The Eye of the Scorpion
• ...ish
• The Church and the Crown - also as Queen Anne
• Nekromanteia
• Zagreus - as Doctor Stone & Ouida
• The Axis of Insanity
• The Roof of the World
• Three's a Crowd
• The Council of Nicaea
• The Kingmaker
• The Reaping
• Year of the Pig
• Exotron / Urban Myths
• Son of the Dragon
• The Mind's Eye / Mission of the Viyrans
• The Bride of Peladon
• Recorded Time and Other Stories
  • Recorded Time
  • Paradoxicide
  • A Most Excellent Match
  • Question Marks
• The Space Race
• Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories
  • Breaking Bubbles
  • Of Chaos Time The
  • An Eye for Murder
  • The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time
• The Widow's Assassin
• Masters of Earth
• The Rani Elite
• Memories of a Tyrant
• Emissary of the Daleks
• Harry Houdini's War
• Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories
  • Blood on Santa's Claw
  • The Baby Awakes
  • I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
  • Brightly Shone The Moon That Night

Doctor Who Special Releases

• Her Final Flight
• Cryptobiosis
• The Veiled Leopard
• The Light at the End

The Lost Stories

• The Nightmare Fair
• Mission to Magnus
• Leviathan
• The Hollows of Time
• Paradise 5
• Point of Entry
• The Song of Megaptera
• The Macros
• The Guardians of Prophecy
• Power Play
• The First Sontarans
• The Ultimate Evil (also as Mariana)

The Sixth Doctor and Peri

• The Headless Ones
• Like
• The Vanity Trap
• Conflict Theory

Companion Chronicles

• Peri and the Piscon Paradox

Destiny of the Doctor

• Trouble in Paradise

Short Trips

• The Shadows of Serenity
• Prime Winner
• Rulebook
• The Authentic Experience
• Under ODIN's Eye
• The Meaning of Red

Bernice Summerfield

• The Revolution - Professor Geller

Iris Wilthyme

• Comeback of the Scorchies - Maggie
• The Slots of Giza - Mable

Audiobooks readings

• The Lost Planet
• Death Among the Stars
• The Mark of the Rani
• The Flight of the Sun God

Out of the Darkness

• Moon Graffiti
• Wish You Were Here
• Vigil

The Doctor Who Audio Annual

• The Real Hereward
• The Radio Waves
• Beauty and the Beast

Directing credits

Big Finish

Companion Chronicles

• The Prisoner of Peladon

UNIT

• The Wasting

External links

• Nicola Bryant at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Official Twitter account