Nicholas Briggs

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Nicholas Briggs (Born 29 September 1961) is a Doctor Who actor, writer, director and fan-turned-pro. Long associated with various official and unofficial spin-off productions, on screen, he is best known for his voice work in the revived series of Doctor Who as the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen.

Career

Early Days

Briggs was one of several actors/writers/directors (Mark Gatiss among them) who cut their teeth on fan-made Doctor Who related/inspired productions and who later got to work on the official series. As well as under his own name, Briggs has also written for video and audio under the pen-names Arthur Wallis and Martin Peterson.

Prior to his work on the revived TV series, Briggs played an active role in Doctor Who fandom since the 1980s. He portrayed a future incarnation of the Doctor in a series of unofficial audio dramas by Audio Visuals, the forerunner of Big Finish Productions. He also worked with Reeltime Pictures, hosting Myth Makers, a long-running series of made-for-video interview documentaries featuring cast and crew of Doctor Who. He also played the title role in Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner built around bloopers from the Myth Makers series.

His writing included productions such as Auton 2: Sentinel for BBV Productions and two entries in The Stranger series, one of which, In Memory Alone, co-starred him with Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote independent science fiction-dramas such as The Airzone Solution, also produced by BBV Productions which starred all of the actors who had played the Doctor, with the exception of Tom Baker.

Recent Work

Briggs is the Executive Producer of the Big Finish audio dramas line. Among his notable works for Big Finish has been writing and directing the Dalek Empire series of audio dramas.

Since the return of Doctor Who in 2004, Briggs has been the "go to guy" for voices for various alien races. Besides the Daleks and Cybermen, Briggs has also given voice to the Nestene Consciousness and the Judoon, also providing the voice of the latter for an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

In 2009, Briggs made his on-screen debut in a BBC Doctor Who franchise production when he appeared as Rick Yates in Torchwood Children of Earth: Day Four, also his first work for the Torchwood spinoff.

Besides reprising the Cybermen and Daleks for Series 5, his voice can be heard as the narrator of the National Museum video Amy Pond watches in DW: The Big Bang.

In the 2010 stage play The Monsters Are Coming!, Briggs portrayed Winston Churchill, as well as voicing the Daleks, Cybermen and Judoon.

Briggs has the distinction of being the only actor to have regular roles in the revived TV series for the BBC and Big Finish productions (guest stars from the revival have appeared in the audios, but none of the other regulars appear in both, including Elisabeth Sladen who ended her Big Finish Sarah Jane Smith series when she began reprising the role on TV).

As of 2011, Briggs is also the host of the BBC Radio 4 Extra radio anthology series 7th Dimension, which has broadcast a number of Doctor Who audio dramas over the past few years.

In part 1 of Power of the Daleks Re-Imagined a picture of Nick can be seen on the back cover of a Vulcan Corproration brochure. (The caption under the picture is "Arthur Wallis".)

Selected credits

Acting

Video

BBV Productions

Television

Doctor Who
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Torchwood

Audio

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

Writing

Video

BBV Productions

Audio

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

Doctor Who Unbound

Dalek Empire

Cyberman

Specially released audio dramas

Other Audio

Short Stories

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