Nicola Bryant

Nicola Jane Bryant (born 11 October 1960REF: Who-ology: The Official Miscellany) 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, as the young actress was often seen wearing revealing outfits. Series producer John Nathan-Turner admitted that his intention was to pump up the sex appeal of the ageing series. During her final season on Doctor Who, Bryant was allowed to dress more conservatively on the show.
Her character was American, and for a while, a publicity-driven fiction was maintained suggesting Bryant was also American.
== Career ==
As well as Doctor Who, Bryant has had other television roles, including the role of Millicent 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.
== Return to Doctor Who ==
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 continued to work on Big Finish audio productions during her recuperation. In February 2006, she returned to live performances, appearing in a production of Taboos, a play by . 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.
== Personal life ==
She is in a relationship with Doctor Who writer Nev Fountain.
== In the DWU ==
Nicola Bryant played herself in The Trial, where she claims that she was incarcerated due to marrying Brian Blessed.
== Acting Credits ==
As Peri Brown
=== 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 ===
==== Tales of the TARDIS ====
* Vengeance on Varos
==== The Collection ====
* The Eternal Mystery
=== Audio ===
==== BBC Radio ====
* Slipback
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Whispers of Terror
* Red Dawn
* The Eye of the Scorpion
* ...ish
* The Church and the Crown
* Nekromanteia
* Zagreus
* 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
* Plight of the Pimpernel
==== 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
==== The Fifth Doctor Adventures ====
* The Auton Infinity
==== The Sixth Doctor Adventures ====
* Escape from Holy Island
* The Thousand Year Thaw
* The Firstborn
==== The Sixth Doctor and Peri ====
* The Headless Ones
* Like
* The Vanity Trap
* Conflict Theory
==== The 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
==== Doctor Who Unbound ====
* Dust Devil
Other Roles 
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* Mindwarp - Lord Kiv (uncredited)
=== Webcasts ===
==== The Collection ====
* The Trial - Nicola Bryant
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* The Church and the Crown - Queen Anne
* Zagreus - Doctor Stone / Ouida
==== The Lost Stories ====
* The Ultimate Evil - Mariana
==== Doctor Who Unbound ====
* Dust Devil - Miss Brown
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* The Revolution - Professor Geller
==== Iris Wildthyme ====
* Comeback of the Scorchies - Maggie
* The Slots of Giza - Mabel
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== Target Novelisations ====
* The Mark of the Rani
==== BBC Audio ====
* The Lost Planet
* Death Among the Stars
* The Flight of the Sun God
* River of Death
==== Out of the Darkness ====
* Moon Graffiti
* Wish You Were Here
* Vigil
==== Doctor Who Audio Annuals ====
* The Real Hereward
* The Radio Waves
* Beauty and the Beast
== Directing Credits ==
=== Audio ===
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* The Prisoner of Peladon
==== UNIT ====
* The Wasting
== Mischellanous ==
=== Audio commentary ===
* Timelash
to be completed
=== Documentary ===
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
to be completed
== External links ==
*Nicola Bryant at Blackadder wiki
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