Celeste Dodwell | |
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Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2008-present |
Television | Home and Away |
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Celeste Dodwell is an Australian actress. She had a recurring role as Melody Jones on the Australian soap opera Home and Away and has since appeared in a range of film, television and stage roles.
She attended Mosman High School in Mosman, New South Wales. [1]
Dodwell joined the soap opera Home and Away as Melody Jones in March 2008. It was reported that she was leaving in 2009 to study drama in London. [2] She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2013. [3] In 2014, she appeared with Felicity Kendal in a UK tour of Hay Fever as Jackie. [4]
In 2016, she appeared in the fifth series of BBC One drama Call the Midwife as Roseanne Dawley, a role in which The Daily Telegraph said Dodwell did "a fine job" of representing a young mother with post-natal depression. [5] [6]
Her film roles have included Allied alongside Brad Pitt, Cyrano with Peter Dinklage and the 2022 Bill Nighy film Living . [7]
In 2022, she appeared as Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre, London. [8] On 8 September 2022, the production was filmed and broadcast live for cinemas. [9] That year, she also appeared as Joanne in season three of Atlanta . [10]
In 2023, Dodwell could be seen in Paramount+ thriller The Castaways alongside Sheridan Smith. That year, she was also cast in the second series of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for Amazon Prime Video . [11] [12]
She is the daughter of A Country Practice actor Grant Dodwell. [13]
† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008-2009 | Home and Away | Melody Jones | 61 episodes |
2015 | The Musketeers | Prostitute | 2 episodes |
2016 | Call the Midwife | Roseanne Dawley | 1 episode |
2016 | Allied | Scarlett | Film |
2018 | Endeavour | Annoushka Nolan | 1 episode |
2021 | Cyrano | Theatre lady | Film |
2022 | Atlanta | Joanne | 1 episode |
2022 | National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing | Ursula | |
2023 | The Castaways | Natasha | |
TBA | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power † | TBA |
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