Nicholas Briggs
- For other people named Briggs, see Briggs (disambiguation).
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 has 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, which was 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.
As a writer his works 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 also 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 providing voiceovers 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 first on-screen appearance in a BBC Doctor Who franchise production when he appeared as Rick Yates in Torchwood Children of Earth: Day Four, which was also his first work for the Torchwood spinoff.
Besides reprising the Cybermen and Daleks for Series 5, his voice can also 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 both 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 had to end 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.
Selected credits
Acting
Video
BBV Productions
- Auton 2: Sentinel - Mike
- Cyber-Hunt - Fred
Television
Doctor Who
- Day of the Daleks - Dalek voice
- Rose - Nestene Consciousness Voice
- Dalek - Dalek Voice
- The Long Game - Jagrafess Voice
- Bad Wolf - Dalek Voice
- The Parting of the Ways - Dalek Voice
- Rise of the Cybermen - Cybermen Voice
- The Age of Steel - Cybermen Voice
- Army of Ghosts - Dalek and Cybermen Voices
- Doomsday - Dalek and Cybermen Voices
- Smith and Jones - Judoon Voice
- Daleks in Manhattan - Dalek Voice
- Evolution of the Daleks - Dalek Voice
- The Stolen Earth - Dalek and Judoon Voices
- Journey's End - Dalek Voice
- The Next Doctor - Cybermen Voice
- The End of Time - Judoon Voice
- Victory of the Daleks - Dalek Voice
- The Pandorica Opens - Dalek, Cybermen and Judoon Voices
- The Big Bang - Dalek Voice and National Museum Pandorica video narrator
- A Good Man Goes to War - Cybermen Voice
- Closing Time - Cybermen Voice
- The Wedding of River Song - Dalek Voice
The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Prisoner of the Judoon - Captain Tybo (Voice) and Judoon Voices
Torchwood
Audio
Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
Writing
Video
BBV Productions
- In Memory Alone
- Auton
- Auton 2: Sentinel
- Auton 3: Awakening (as Arthur Wallis, co-written with Paul Ebbs)
Audio
Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories
- The Sirens of Time
- The Mutant Phase
- Last of the Titans
- Sword of Orion
- Embrace the Darkness
- Creatures of Beauty
- The Nowhere Place
- Return of the Daleks
- Frozen Time
- Sisters of the Flame
- The Vengeance of Morbius
- Return of the Krotons
- Orbis (Co-written with Alan Barnes)
- Wirrn Dawn
- Patient Zero
- Blue Forgotten Planet
- Robophobia
Audio Adventures in Time and Space: The Wanderer
- Cyber-Hunt (as Martin Peterson)
- Warlords (as Martin Peterson)
Doctor Who Unbound
Big Finish Doctor Who audio spin-offs
Other Audio
- The Dalek Conquests - a faux documentary on the history of the Daleks produced by BBC Radio.
