Megan Dodds

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Megan Dodds
Born
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Education Juilliard School (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1990–present
SpouseOliver Pearce
Children1

Megan Dodds is an American actress. She played Kate in the 2006 series Not Going Out , alongside Lee Mack and Tim Vine, and has appeared in the series Spooks , House , Detroit 1-8-7 , and CSI: NY , and the films Ever After , The Contract , and Chatroom . Her stage work includes having played the title role in the stage production My Name Is Rachel Corrie (2006), which won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in that year.

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Early life

Megan Dodds was born in Sacramento, California. [1] She graduated from Roseville High School in 1988 [2] and then enrolled in a community college, where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves . [1] She next went to Juilliard School, [1] where she studied for four years as a member of the Drama Division's Group 24 (1991–1995).[ citation needed ] [3]

Career

Dodds left the U.S. for London in 1997 to star in British comedian Ben Elton's play Popcorn . [1] As a result of meeting her future husband, photographer Oliver Pearce, she stayed in London, [1] about which she has said, "I love it here, I really feel like I learn a lot. There’s a lot of variety in terms of work." [4]

Theatre

In Up for Grabs (2006, Wyndham's Theatre, London), Dodds played a technology entrepreneur, co-starring with Madonna as Mindy, Madonna's seductress, where she was described as combining "sexiness and solitude". [5]

Dodds won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in 2007 for the one woman show My Name Is Rachel Corrie , [6] about an activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a 2003 demonstration in Gaza. [6] [1] A planned opening at the New York Theatre Workshop was cancelled in Fall 2005. [1]

Television and film

Dodds has appeared in television shows such as Love in a Cold Climate (2001),[ citation needed ] the BBC series Spooks [7] (in the U.S., MI-5; 2002-2004),[ citation needed ] and Viva Blackpool. [8] Dodds was a part of the first series cast of the BBC One sitcom, Not Going Out in 2006 as Kate, the flatmate of the lead character Lee Mack, leaving the show after the first series. [9]

Dodds portrayed a "more conventionally beautiful" Marguerite as stepsister to Cinderella in Ever After (1998), a romance where Dodds' character is further described as "scarier than any ugly stepsisters that came before her, especially as it appears, briefly, that she has a legitimate shot at winning the prince". [10]

Personal life

After relocating to England in 1997, Dodds met Oliver Pearce, fashion and advertising photographer. They later married and they have one child. [1]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 Midnight Caller CrystalEpisode: "Planes"
1998 The Rat Pack May BrittTelevision film [1]
2001 Love in a Cold Climate PollyMiniseries
2001 Sword of Honour VirginiaTelevision film
2002–2004 Spooks Christine DaleRecurring role (series 1–3), 10 episodes [7]
2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot Henrietta SavernakeEpisode: "The Hollow"
2005 Malice Aforethought Madeleine CranmereTelevision film
2006 Not Going Out KateMain role (series 1)
2006 Viva Blackpool Kitty De-LuxeTelevision film [8] [11]
2008 Hotel Babylon KatieEpisode 3.6
2009 Lie to Me GailEpisode: "Depraved Heart"
2009 House Dr. BeasleyEpisode: "Broken"
2011 Detroit 1-8-7 Jess HarkinsRecurring role, 6 episodes
2012 Awake Elizabeth SantoroEpisode: "Oregon"
2012–2013 CSI: NY Christine WhitneyRecurring role, 12 episodes
2014 White Collar Eva PerkinsEpisode: "All's Fair"
2019–2021 For All Mankind Andrea WaltersRecurring role, 6 episodes

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Ever After Marguerite De Ghent [1]
2000 Urbania Deedee
2000 Bait Agent Walsh
2000Interstate 84Wendy
2002 Purpose Lisa Forrester
2005 Festival Dina
2006 Free Jimmy ClaireVoice role
2006 The Contract Sandra [1]
2010 Chatroom Grace Rollins
2015 Oceanus: Act One Dr. Erin Kendall [12]
2018 Juliet, Naked Carrie
2020 The Will Josie
2023 Wonderwell Chlo

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995 Psychic Detective ReporterVoice role [13]

Stage

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995 The School for Scandal Maria Lyceum Theatre, New York
1996Ancient History/English Made SimpleJillOff-Broadway
1997 Popcorn Brooke Daniels Apollo Theatre
1999 Hamlet Ophelia Young Vic Theatre
1999 As You Like It Celia Williamstown Theatre Festival
2002 Up for Grabs [14] [5] Mindy [5] Wyndham's Theatre [14]
2005 This Is How It Goes Woman Donmar Warehouse
2006 My Name Is Rachel Corrie [6] [1] Rachel Corrie [6] Royal Court Theatre (London, 2005-2006), [6] The Playhouse Theatre (London, 2006), [6] and Minetta Lane Theatre (off-Broadway, 2006) [6]
London Theatregoers' Choice Award, Best Actress winner [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Henderson, Kathy & Dodds, Megan (16 October 2006). "Fresh Face: Megan Dodds". Broadway.com. Archived from the original (interview) on 16 October 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ "Graduation '88, Roseville High School". The Sacramento Bee . May 26, 1988. Retrieved March 14, 2023. Roseville High School…Megan Lynn Dodds
  3. ↑ Juilliard Staff & Dodds, Megan (November 2007). "Drama, 1990s". Alumni News. New York, NY: The Juilliard School. Archived from the original on 11 November 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2017– via Juilliard.edu. Note, while alumni news sections are essentially a form of self-publication, use of this citation simply supports that Dodds was at Juilliard, in Group 24 (an assigned category for the citation that would not have been a matter of self-reporting).
  4. ↑ SOLT Staff (30 March 2006). "The Big Interview: Megan Dodds". London Theatre Guide. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2017– via OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk.
  5. 1 2 3 Wolf, Matt (27 May 2002). "[Theatrical] Review: 'Up for Grabs'". Variety . Retrieved 27 January 2017. [Quote:] Where, then, does this leave the rest of a not untalented ensemble? Wide-eyed in the case of Sian Thomas's inebriated Brit (is there any other kind?), and humiliated and on the outs in the case of the randy and druggy dot-com millionaires played by Daniel Pino and Megan Dodds.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Broadway.com Staff (28 August 2006). "Broadway Buzz, Star Files: Megan Dodds". NYTimes.TheatreDirect.com. Archived from the original (online db entry) on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2017– via Broadway.com.
  7. 1 2 BBC Staff (24 September 2014). "Actor Info: Megan Dodds". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2017. See also: BBC Staff (24 September 2014). "Character Info: Christine Dale". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  8. 1 2 BBC Drama Staff (28 October 2014). "Viva Blackpool". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Curtis, Nick (13 January 2017). "Lee Mack: 'I Wouldn't Be Surprised If Many Comics Came From Broken Homes'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2017. [Quote:] Mack's character, also called Lee, lost his original love interest, played by Megan Dodds, after the first series…
  10. ↑ Sollosi, Mary (29 July 2016). "17 Reasons Ever After is the Best Cinderella Movie Ever". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 26 January 2017– via EW.com. [Quote:] Even better than having a nice stepsister, Ever After also makes one of them especially pretty — perhaps even more conventionally beautiful than Cinderella herself. Megan Dodds' Marguerite is scarier than any ugly stepsisters that came before her, especially as it appears, briefly, that she has a legitimate shot at winning the prince.
  11. ↑ "Viva Blackpool: Ripley's Return". 25 October 2006.
  12. ↑ Morris, Jeffrey, Oceanus: Act One (Short, Adventure, Drama), Megan Dodds, Sharif Atkins, Bruce Davison, FutureDude Entertainment, retrieved 2024-05-09
  13. ↑ Simmons, Jim; Kaplan, Michael; Sanborn, John; et al. (1995). Psychic Detective: About the Movie (game/film production notes). (Colossal)Picture, producer. San Matteo, CA: 3DO/Electronic Arts. p. 8, of 13. ID No. 726315. Retrieved 27 January 2017. See also the main article for this game.
  14. 1 2 Billington, Michael (23 May 2002). "Up For Grabs" (theatrical review). The Guardian . Retrieved 27 January 2017. [Quote:] Madonna is not positively bad: just technically awkward. But, fortunately, she is buttressed by strong supporting players. Sian Thomas, who can get a laugh simply through the flick of an eyelid, is superb as a Courtauld-trained consultant longing to get her revenge on the corporate world. Megan Dodds, as the dotcom entrepreneur who starts by seducing Madonna and ends up falling in love, combines sexiness and solitude. And Michael Lerner blusters effectively as a crude buyer for whom art is a means of appeasing his wife.

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