Nicola Bryant

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Peri: 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 Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet); The Trial of a Time Lord (Mindwarp); Dimensions In Time[Misc]; Whispers of Terror[BF]; Red Dawn[BF]; The Eye of the Scorpion[BF]; ...ish[BF]; Nekromanteia[BF]; The Axis of Insanity[BF]; The Roof of the World[BF]; Her Final Flight[BF]; Three's a Crowd[BF]; The Council of Nicaea[BF]; The Kingmaker[BF]; The Reaping[BF]; Cryptobiosis[BF]; Year of the Pig[BF]; Exotron / Urban Myths[BF]; Son of the Dragon[BF]; The Mind's Eye[BF]; The Bride of Peladon[BF]; The Nightmare Fair[BF]; Mission to Magnus[BF]; Leviathan[BF]; The Hollows of Time[BF]; Paradise 5[BF]; Point of Entry[BF]; The Song of Megaptera[BF]; The Macros[BF]; Peri and the Piscon Paradox[BF]; Recorded Time and Other Stories[BF]; The Guardians of Prophecy[BF]; Power Play[BF]; The First Sontarans[BF]; The Light at the End[BF]; 1963: The Space Race[BF]; Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories[BF]; The Widow's Assassin[BF]; Masters of Earth[BF]; The Rani Elite[BF]; Memories of a Tyrant[BF]; Emissary of the Daleks[BF]; Harry Houdini's War[BF]; The Ultimate Evil[BF]; Blood on Santa's Claw and other stories[BF]; The Sixth Doctor and Peri Volume 01[BF]; Plight of the Pimpernel[BF]; Trouble in Paradise[BF]; The Trial of a Time Lord (The Ultimate Foe)(uncredited) (from archive recording) | as Perpugilliam Brown: Slipback[Misc]
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Nicola Bryant
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Nicola Jane Bryant

Born: Tuesday 11th October 1960 (age: 63)

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Nicola Bryant is an English actress known for her role as Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown, a companion of the Sixth Doctor Colin Baker.

Bryant grew up in a village in Surrey, near Guildford. She started dance classes at the age of three and also began to learn the piano. At the age of ten she auditioned to go to ballet schools, but was unable to take up places offered because of asthma. Upset by this development, she joined a local amateur dramatic group. On leaving school, she auditioned for all of the London drama schools and took up a scholarship to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. In her final year there, she played the part of Nanette in a production of the musical No, No, Nanette.

Bryant's first professional part was as Peri Brown in Doctor Who. She played the part from 1984 to 1986, first with Peter Davison, and then with Colin Baker as the Doctor.  Her character was American and for a while a publicity-driven fiction was maintained suggesting Bryant was also American. 

After appearing in Doctor Who, Bryant spent nine months at the Savoy Theatre in the West End of London in the thriller Killing Jessica with Patrick Macnee, directed by Bryan Forbes. She went on to have 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. She also appeared alongside Baker, Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Jon Pertwee in another BBV production, The Airzone Solution, which is notable as it includes a love scene between Baker and Bryant.

Bryant reprised the role of Peri in several of the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who spin-off audio plays. She has appeared with both Peter Davison and Colin Baker in these. She also directed UNIT: The Wasting and Judge Dredd: 99 Code Red!.

In February 2006, she performed in a New End Theatre production of the Carl Djerassi play Taboos, and in early 2007 appeared in a London stage production of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at the Duke of York's Theatre. A DVD documentary, In The Footsteps of The Two Doctors, following Nicola's return to some of the locations featured in the Doctor Who serial The Two Doctors, was released in late 2006.

She returned to the stage in 2008/2009, in a touring production, in an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier�s Don't Look Now, playing the part of Laura Baxter.

In the summer of 2009 Bryant filmed an improvised documentary-style film for award-winning Australian director Ben Briand for the European arm of a travel company, as well as recording eight stories for a missing season of audio adventures for Big Finish's range of Doctor Who CDs.