Sarah Sutton is a British actress best known for her role as Nyssa in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Nyssa was a companion to "Doctors" Tom Baker, then Peter Davison, from 1981 to 1983. Sutton was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Sutton studied ballet as a little girl and was only 11 when she became the youngest British actress to have played Alice on screen, in a 1973 television film of Alice in Wonderland. Besides her performance as Alice, Sutton appeared in a number of television programmes before Doctor Who, including The Moon Stallion as Diana Purwell and The Crucible as Susannah Walcott. After joining the Fourth Doctor in 1981, her final full Doctor Who serial was with the Fifth Doctor, in 1983's Terminus. Sutton, famously, removed her skirt for Terminus, effectively playing out the rest of the serial in her undergarments?the scripted reason being that she was feeling unwell and feverish as well as leaving a clue for The Doctor, though Sutton described it later as "a parting gesture to [the] fans". Sutton took a break from acting after Doctor Who, focusing for a number of years on raising her daughter, Hannah, with her GP husband, Andrew. [More at Wikipedia]

December 12th, 1961 in Basingstoke (Age 62)