Nicola Bryant was born the daughter of a heating engineer, in 1960, in Surrey, England. She began her training in dance and music at the age of three, studying classical ballet, then jazz and tap dance, the piano, flute and guitar, and finally acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Here, apart from developing her acting skills, she ...
Despite playing the first American companion on ''Doctor Who'', she is really British. Kept her American accent on ''Doctor Who'' in between takes and during all interviews so that she wouldn't confuse the audience.
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Considered going to university, reading law and becoming a barrister.
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Studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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She has appeared in three different productions with Colin Baker in which she played a companion of his with the surname Brown: Doctor Who (1963) (Peri Brown), The Stranger series (Miss Brown) and The Airzone Solution (1993) (Elenya "Ellie" Brown).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Scoop
2010
TV Series
Anne Boleyn
My Family
2009-2010
TV Series
Janet / Anne
Doctors
2000-2010
TV Series
Jackie Fallon / Sonia Heyward-Smith
Holby City
2007-2010
TV Series
Reporter / Catherine Sloman
TravelWise
2000
Video
Laura
Casualty
2000
TV Series
Susan Harris
Parting Shots
1998
Beverley
Animal Ark
1998
TV Series
Sara Lawson
The 10 Percenters
1996
TV Series
Julia
The Biz
1995/II
TV Series
Martine
The Airzone Solution
1993
Video
Elenya Brown
The Stranger: In Memory Alone
1993
Video
Miss Brown
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
1993
TV Short
Peri Brown
More Than a Messiah
1992
Video short
Miss Brown
Summoned by Shadows
1992
Video short
Miss Brown
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
TV Short
Millicent
Doctor Who
1984-1986
TV Series
Peri
Saturday Superstore
1984
TV Series
Peri
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014
TV Movie
Herself / Peri Brown
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Pointless Celebrities
2013
TV Series
Herself
The Flames of Sarn
2010
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
The Cold War
2009
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
The Making of the Trial of a Time Lord: Part One - Mysterious Planet
2008
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
Trials and Tribulations
2008
Video documentary
Herself
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2007
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
Built for War
2006
Video documentary short
Herself
Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
2006
Video
Herself / Peri
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Story of 'Doctor Who'
2003
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Patrick Troughton Mythmakers
2002
Video documentary
Herself
Lust in Space
1998
Video
Herself
Clive James on TV
1998
TV Series
Herself
Stranger Than Fiction
1994
Video documentary
Doctor Who: 30 Years in the Tardis
1993
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Myth Makers Vol. 7: Myth Runner
1987
Video
Herself
Children in Need
1985
TV Series
Herself
Saturday Superstore
1985
TV Series
Herself
Breakfast Time
1984
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Geek Crash Course
2013
TV Series
Peri Brown
Nice or Nasty?: The Making of Vengeance on Varos
2012
Video documentary
Peri (uncredited)
Phelous & the Movies
2011
TV Series
Peri Brown
Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Part 2
2010
Video
Peri Brown
The Last Chance Saloon
2010
Video documentary short
Herself
Doctor Who Confidential
2009
TV Series documentary
Peri Brown
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
Video documentary short
Peri Brown
Celebration
2008
Video documentary
Herself
Davros Connections
2007
Video documentary
Peri
Double Trouble
2007
Video documentary short
Peri
Being Doctor Who
2007
Video documentary short
Peri
The Mark of the Rani
2006
Video short
Peri
Postcards
2005
TV Series
Peri Brown
Revelation Exhumed
2005
Video
Peri
Highlander: The Jamie McCrimmon Story
2005
Video documentary short
Peri
Directing 'Who': Peter Moffatt
2004
Video documentary short
Peri Brown
Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Spain
2004
Video documentary short
Peri (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Beneath the Lights
2004
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
Doctor Who: Beneath the Sun
2004
Video documentary short
Herself / Peri
Behind the Sofa: Robert Holmes and Doctor Who
2003
Video documentary
Peri
'Doctor Who': The Colin Baker Years
1994
Video documentary
Peri
Resistance Is Useless
1992
TV Movie documentary
Peri
Doctor Who
1986
TV Series
Peri Brown
Known for movies
Doctor Who (1984-1986) as Peri
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988) as Millicent
The Stranger: In Memory Alone (1993) as Miss Brown
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) as Peri Brown