Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer, composer and voice actor. He is predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Daleks and the Cybermen in the 21st century series. He is also the executive producer of Big Finish Productions, for which he has produced, directed and written several audio plays, as well as acting in many of them.

Filmography

• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — Omega (voice)
• 2025Reach for the Stars: The Starwatch Story — Narrator
• 2024Day of the Daughters
• Doctor Who — The Vlinx (voice), Robots (voice), Omega (voice)
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Vlinx (voice) / Dalek (voice)
• 2024Doctor Who: Leela vs. The Time War — Daleks (voice)
• 2024Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death — The Vlinx (voice)
• 2023Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 — Dalek (voice)
• 2023Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour — Dalek (voice)
• 2023The Doctors: In Print
• 2022Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks — Voice of the Daleks
• 2021Fireball XL5: Robots in Distress — (voices)
• 2021The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years Behind the Scenes Vol 1
• DALEKS! — The Mechanoids, The Daleks
• 2020The Doctors: Heroes and Villains!
• 2019Doctor Who: Resolution — Dalek (voice)
• 2019The Doctors: Heroes!
• 2019The Doctors: More Monsters!
• 2019The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
• 2019The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years
• 2019The Doctors: The Sylvester McCoy Years
• 2018Blake's Seven
• 2018Dare you enter the Time Vortex? — Voice of the Daleks, Narrator
• 2018Gerry Anderson's Firestorm — Remus (Voice)
• 2018MAXIMUM EXTERMINATION — Voice of the Daleks, Narrator
• 2018The Doctors: Monsters!
• 2018The Doctors: Villains!
• 2017Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time — Daleks (voice)
• 2017The Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years
• 2017The Doctors: The Tom Baker Years
• 2017The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years
• 2016Doctor Who: Friend from the Future — Dalek (voice)
• 2015Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
• 2014Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven — Cyberman (voice)
• 2013An Adventure in Space and Time — Peter Hawkins
• 2013Doctor Who at the Proms — Daleks (voice)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor — Dalek (voice) / Zygon (voice)
• 2013Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor — Daleks / Cybermen (voice)
• 2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot — Dalek operator
• 2012Doctor Who: Power of the Daleks Reimagined — Daleks (voice)
• 2011Cleaning Up — Ted, Executive Producer
• 2011Monsters Who Came Back For More!
• 2011The Grand Pier Story — Narrator
• 2011The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
• 2010Doctor Who at the Proms — Daleks (voice)
• 2008Adulthood — Max
• 2008Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008 — Dalek (voice)
• 2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor — Cybermen (voice)
• Lewis — Solicitor
• The Sarah Jane Adventures — Captain Tybo (voice)
• TARDISodes — Dalek (voice)
• Torchwood — Rick Yates
• Doctor Who — Zygons (voice), Judoon Captain (voice), Nestene (voice), Daleks (voice), Judoon (voice), Daleks / Cybermen (voice), Daleks (voice) / Judoon (voice), Cybermen / Judoon (voice), Skaldak (voice)
• 2002Doctor Who: Real Time — Cyber-Controller / Professor Osborn
• Doctor Who: Real Time — Cyber-Controller
• Coupling — Voice of the Daleks
• 1999Auton 3: Awakening — Writer
• 1999Mindgame Trilogy — Music
• 1998Auton 2: Sentinel — Mike, Director, Writer
• 1997Auton — Director, Writer
• 1995PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne — Ministry Extra
• 1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
• 1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond — Music
• 1995The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder — Soldier, Writer
• 1994Stranger than Fiction — Director
• 1994The Stranger: Breach of the Peace — Evans, Writer
• 1994The Stranger: The Terror Game — Raven, Writer, Original Music Composer
• 1993Return to Devil's End — Presenter
• 1993The Airzone Solution — Sam Flint, Writer
• 1993The Stranger: In Memory Alone — Writer
• 1991The Corridor Sketch — Reporter
• The Stranger — Minor, Raven, Evans, Writer
• 1988Wartime — Soldier
• 1987Myth Runner — Himself - Interviewer, Director, Writer
• 1972Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks — Dalek Voices (Special Edition)

Appearances as themselves (15)

• 2025Worlds Within: The Life of Ian Marter — Self
• 2022Doctor Who Am I — Self
• 2022Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted — Self
• 2020Convention Culture — Self
• 2020The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years — Self (archive footage)
• Myth Makers — Himself
• Doctor Who Extra — Self
• 2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison — Self
• 2010Daleks! Beyond the Screen — Self
• Doctor Who Greatest Moments — Self
• 2007Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who — Self
• 2006The Dalek Tapes — Self
• 2003Patrick Troughton in America — Self - Presenter
• 2001Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy — Himself
• 1998Lust in Space — Self