Megan Dodds | |
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Born | [1] Sacramento, California, U.S. | 15 February 1970
Education | Juilliard School (BFA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1990–present |
Spouse | Oliver Pearce |
Children | 1 |
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 production My Name Is Rachel Corrie (2006), which won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress.
Megan Dodds was born in Sacramento, California. [2] She graduated from Roseville High School in 1988 [3] and then enrolled in a community college, where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves . [2] She next went to Juilliard School, [2] where she studied for four years as a member of the Drama Division's Group 24 (1991–1995).[ citation needed ] [4]
Dodds left the U.S. for London in 1997 to star in British comedian Ben Elton's play Popcorn . [2] As a result of meeting her future husband, photographer Oliver Pearce, she stayed in London, [2] 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." [5]
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". [6]
Dodds won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in 2007 for the one woman show My Name Is Rachel Corrie , [7] about an activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a 2003 demonstration in Gaza. [7] [2] A planned opening at the New York Theatre Workshop was cancelled in Fall 2005. [2]
Dodds has appeared in television shows such as Love in a Cold Climate (2001),[ citation needed ] the BBC series Spooks [8] (in the U.S., MI-5; 2002-2004),[ citation needed ] and Viva Blackpool. [9] 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. [10]
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". [11]
After relocating to England in 1997, Dodds met Oliver Pearce, fashion and advertising photographer. They later married and they have one child. [2]
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Midnight Caller | Crystal | Episode: "Planes" |
1998 | The Rat Pack | May Britt | Television film [2] |
2001 | Love in a Cold Climate | Polly | Miniseries |
2001 | Sword of Honour | Virginia | Television film |
2002–2004 | Spooks | Christine Dale | Recurring role (series 1–3), 10 episodes [8] |
2004 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Henrietta Savernake | Episode: "The Hollow" |
2005 | Malice Aforethought | Madeleine Cranmere | Television film |
2006 | Not Going Out | Kate | Main role (series 1) |
2006 | Viva Blackpool | Kitty De-Luxe | Television film [9] [12] |
2008 | Hotel Babylon | Katie | Episode 3.6 |
2009 | Lie to Me | Gail | Episode: "Depraved Heart" |
2009 | House | Dr. Beasley | Episode: "Broken" |
2011 | Detroit 1-8-7 | Jess Harkins | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
2012 | Awake | Elizabeth Santoro | Episode: "Oregon" |
2012–2013 | CSI: NY | Christine Whitney | Recurring role, 12 episodes |
2014 | White Collar | Eva Perkins | Episode: "All's Fair" |
2019–2021 | For All Mankind | Andrea Walters | Recurring role, 6 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | Ever After | Marguerite De Ghent | [2] |
2000 | Urbania | Deedee | |
2000 | Bait | Agent Walsh | |
2000 | Interstate 84 | Wendy | |
2002 | Purpose | Lisa Forrester | |
2005 | Festival | Dina | |
2006 | Free Jimmy | Claire | Voice role |
2006 | The Contract | Sandra | [2] |
2010 | Chatroom | Grace Rollins | |
2015 | Oceanus: Act One | Dr. Erin Kendall | [13] |
2018 | Juliet, Naked | Carrie | |
2020 | The Will | Josie | |
2023 | Wonderwell | Chlo |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Psychic Detective | Reporter | Voice role [14] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | The School for Scandal | Maria | Lyceum Theatre, New York |
1996 | Ancient History/English Made Simple | Jill | Off-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 [15] [6] | Mindy [6] | Wyndham's Theatre [15] |
2005 | This Is How It Goes | Woman | Donmar Warehouse |
2006 | My Name Is Rachel Corrie [7] [2] | Rachel Corrie [7] | Royal Court Theatre (London, 2005-2006), [7] The Playhouse Theatre (London, 2006), [7] and Minetta Lane Theatre (off-Broadway, 2006) [7] London Theatregoers' Choice Award, Best Actress winner [7] |
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[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.
[Quote:] Mack's character, also called Lee, lost his original love interest, played by Megan Dodds, after the first series…
[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.
[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.
[Quote:] Megan Dodds has joined indie fantasy film Wonderwell, directed by Vlad Marsavin with a script from William Brookfield. Set against the commercially driven world of high fashion and modeling, the story centers on a 12-year-old girl who travels through a magic portal and gets her wish to grow up. Principal photography begins this month in Rome and Tuscany. Orian Williams II, Elena Baranova and Roberto Bessi produce, with William Sharp, Fred Roos and Alexander Roos exec producing. Dodd's film credits include Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Urbania, and The Contract. She is repped by APA, Silver Lining Entertainment and Independent in the UK.