Perpugilliam Brown, also known as Peri Brown, is a fictional character
played by Nicola Bryant in the long-running British science fiction
television series Doctor Who.An American college student (her passport
lists her residence as Pasadena, California) majoring in botany, Peri
is a companion of the Fifth and Sixth Doctors and a regular in the
programme from 1984 to 1986. Peri appeared in 11 stories (33
episodes).She first appears in the Fifth Doctor serial Planet of Fire,
in which she encounters the Doctor and Turlough on the island of
Lanzarote. After an encounter with the Master and the shapechanging
android Kamelion (who disguises himself as her stepfather, Professor
Howard Foster), Peri asks to join the Fifth Doctor on his travels,
while Turlough departs to return to his home planet of Trion. (The
identity of Peri's mother is not revealed in the televised series, but
see below.)As they are both suffering from spectrox poisoning on
Androzani, the Fifth Doctor decides to give what antidote remains to
Peri, sacrificing himself to save her. As she looks on, he regenerates
into the Sixth Doctor at the end of The Caves of Androzani and she
continues to travel with him, despite the temporarily unstable Doctor
attempting to strangle her after his transformation (The Twin
Dilemma). Peri Brown Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter