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Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is known for his association with the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, particularly for voicing the Daleks and Cybermen since 2005. Briggs is also the executive producer of Big Finish Productions since 2006, for which he has produced, directed, written and acted in licensed Doctor Who audio dramas.
Briggs was born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire on 29 September 1961 and grew up in a housing estate in Totton. He described his upbringing as having a "working-class mentality". His father worked in the car industry and his mother was a secretary. His older brother Colin was a broadcaster who presented BBC Look North for two decades.
Briggs' first public acting role was in the Nativity musical Follow the Star in his final year of school. He went on to technical college to take his A-levels and a drama diploma. He studied at Rose Bruford College with Barry Killerby, known for portraying Mr Blobby. Briggs graduated in 1983 with a degree in theatre arts.
Briggs grew up fascinated by the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He did not immediately find acting work following his graduation, so he became involved with a group of fans who produced not-for-profit unlicensed Doctor Who audio dramas called the Audio Visuals. Fueled by Doctor Who's 1985 hiatus, four seasons were released between 1985 and 1991. Briggs played the Doctor in all but the first Audio Visuals release, which starred Stephen Payne, and also wrote, directed, composed and sound designed many of them under pseudonyms such as Arthur Wallis, Samuel Flint and Erica Galloway. The Audio Visuals were highly popular with fans and circulated amongst fan clubs in the 1980s. Brigg's incarnation of the Doctor appeared in licensed comics published in Doctor Who Magazine: in the 1991 comic story "Party Animals", and later as the supposed "Ninth Doctor" in a 1998 storyline where the Eighth Doctor seemingly regenerated.
From 1985, Briggs hosted Myth Makers, a series of direct-to-video documentaries produced by Reeltime Pictures, in which he interviewed various cast and crew members of Doctor Who. According to Briggs, "Myth Makers gave me an outlet for performance that I wasn’t getting otherwise." He also appeared in the Blade Runner parody Myth Runner as a private detective on the run from his android double—the storyline was a framing device to showcase bloopers from the Myth Makers series. Briggs also appeared in Reeltime's direct-to-video film Wartime (1987), the first independently-produced licensed Doctor Who spin-off.
Briggs performed occasionally in London fringe theatre, before becoming an editorial assistant at the publishing company Visual Imagination in 1988, working on the magazines Starburst and TV Zone. In 1995, he became editor of the magazine Film Review.
Briggs continued to work on Doctor Who fan productions, writing various direct-to-video science fiction films produced by BBV Productions, which were inspired by Doctor Who and featured actors from the series. He wrote four films in The Stranger series (1993–1995) starring Colin Baker as an ersatz version of the Doctor. Briggs also wrote The Airzone Solution (1993), which starred former Doctor Who leads Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. For BBV, Briggs played an amnesiac version of his incarnation of the Doctor in the audio dramas "Cyber Hunt" (1998) and "Vital Signs" (1999).
Briggs directed the documentary film Stranger than Fiction (1994).[better source needed] He also wrote for the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs in the late 1990s.
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Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is known for his association with the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, particularly for voicing the Daleks and Cybermen since 2005. Briggs is also the executive producer of Big Finish Productions since 2006, for which he has produced, directed, written and acted in licensed Doctor Who audio dramas.
Briggs was born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire on 29 September 1961 and grew up in a housing estate in Totton. He described his upbringing as having a "working-class mentality". His father worked in the car industry and his mother was a secretary. His older brother Colin was a broadcaster who presented BBC Look North for two decades.
Briggs' first public acting role was in the Nativity musical Follow the Star in his final year of school. He went on to technical college to take his A-levels and a drama diploma. He studied at Rose Bruford College with Barry Killerby, known for portraying Mr Blobby. Briggs graduated in 1983 with a degree in theatre arts.
Briggs grew up fascinated by the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He did not immediately find acting work following his graduation, so he became involved with a group of fans who produced not-for-profit unlicensed Doctor Who audio dramas called the Audio Visuals. Fueled by Doctor Who's 1985 hiatus, four seasons were released between 1985 and 1991. Briggs played the Doctor in all but the first Audio Visuals release, which starred Stephen Payne, and also wrote, directed, composed and sound designed many of them under pseudonyms such as Arthur Wallis, Samuel Flint and Erica Galloway. The Audio Visuals were highly popular with fans and circulated amongst fan clubs in the 1980s. Brigg's incarnation of the Doctor appeared in licensed comics published in Doctor Who Magazine: in the 1991 comic story "Party Animals", and later as the supposed "Ninth Doctor" in a 1998 storyline where the Eighth Doctor seemingly regenerated.
From 1985, Briggs hosted Myth Makers, a series of direct-to-video documentaries produced by Reeltime Pictures, in which he interviewed various cast and crew members of Doctor Who. According to Briggs, "Myth Makers gave me an outlet for performance that I wasn’t getting otherwise." He also appeared in the Blade Runner parody Myth Runner as a private detective on the run from his android double—the storyline was a framing device to showcase bloopers from the Myth Makers series. Briggs also appeared in Reeltime's direct-to-video film Wartime (1987), the first independently-produced licensed Doctor Who spin-off.
Briggs performed occasionally in London fringe theatre, before becoming an editorial assistant at the publishing company Visual Imagination in 1988, working on the magazines Starburst and TV Zone. In 1995, he became editor of the magazine Film Review.
Briggs continued to work on Doctor Who fan productions, writing various direct-to-video science fiction films produced by BBV Productions, which were inspired by Doctor Who and featured actors from the series. He wrote four films in The Stranger series (1993–1995) starring Colin Baker as an ersatz version of the Doctor. Briggs also wrote The Airzone Solution (1993), which starred former Doctor Who leads Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. For BBV, Briggs played an amnesiac version of his incarnation of the Doctor in the audio dramas "Cyber Hunt" (1998) and "Vital Signs" (1999).
Briggs directed the documentary film Stranger than Fiction (1994).[better source needed] He also wrote for the Channel 5 soap opera Family Affairs in the late 1990s.
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