Nyssa is a fictional character in the long-running British science
fiction television series Doctor Who. She is played by Sarah Sutton.
Although Nyssa was created by writer Johnny Byrne for a single Fourth
Doctor serial The Keeper of Traken, the production team subsequently
decided she should be retained as a continuing character. Nyssa
returned in the following serial, Logopolis, in which the Fourth
Doctor regenerated, and remained as a companion of the Fifth Doctor.
She was a regular in the programme from 1981 to 1983.Nyssa is an
aristocrat of Traken, the daughter of Tremas (a consul of the Traken
Union) and stepdaughter of Kassia. She aids the Doctor and Adric when
the Master wrests control of the Keepership by first manipulating and
then murdering her stepmother, but is herself hypnotised and kidnapped
by him after he takes control of her father's body. After being freed
from the Master's control, she is brought to Logopolis by the Watcher
and discovers that Traken has been destroyed as a side effect of the
Master's tampering with the Logopolitan's formulae. She subsequently
joins Adric and Tegan Jovanka as a companion and member of the TARDIS
crew, and witnesses the Fourth Doctor's regeneration into the
Fifth.During her journeys with Tegan and Adric aboard the TARDIS,
Nyssa finds herself trapped in a mathematical equation by the Master
â€" whom she hates as he is now using her father's face. She also
encounters a race of androids and their insane ruler, helps foil the
genocidal plans of a wounded Terileptil and incidentally starts the
Great Fire of London, and discovers her uncanny resemblance to a 1920s
English socialite Ann Talbot.Adric's death while battling the Cybermen
affects the TARDIS crew deeply. When confronted by an illusion of him
created by the Master shortly afterwards, both Nyssa and Tegan are
initially taken aback, until Nyssa notices Adric is still wearing his
now-destroyed badge. During this adventure, Nyssa also displays a
previously unseen psychic ability when she is contacted by the
Xeraphin.
Nyssa (Doctor Who) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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