Megan Dodds

Megan Dodds
Megan Dodds
Born Megan Dodds
15 February 1970 (1970-02-15) (age 41)
Sacramento, California, United States
Spouse Oliver Pearce

Megan Lynne Dodds (born February 15, 1970) is an American stage and television actress.

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Biography

Megan Dodds was born in Sacramento, California, and after High School she enrolled in a community college where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. The role inspired her enough to apply successfully to study for four years at the Juilliard School.[1]

After graduation, Dodds spent two years in Off Broadway and Broadway productions, before being spotted by British comedian Ben Elton, and came to London in 1997 to play a bunny girl in Elton's play Popcorn. As a result of meeting her photographer husband Oliver Pearce, she became resident in London: “I love it here, I really feel like I learn a lot. There’s a lot of variety in terms of work.”[2]

Dodds' track record in London shows the variety of work, as she has held down roles in diverse television productions, including: Love in a Cold Climate; playing Christine Dale, the CIA liaison officer in the BBC One series Spooks; and Kitty deLux in Viva Blackpool.[3]

Theatre roles have included playing opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in 1999 in As You Like It, and kissing Madonna in Up for Grabs;[4] in 2006 she won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in the one woman show "My Name is Rachel Corrie".[5] The show opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London, but a planned transfer to the New York Theatre Workshop was cancelled, with rumours of the theatre being afraid of the show’s Gaza Strip based political content. Dodds fought against the imposed indefinite delay, and the debate of censorship on such a sensitive issue at the time of the post-Iraq war debate became publicised by the New York Times. After a successful run in London's West End, the show eventually played to a sellout audience at the off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre in early 2006.

In 2006, she joined the cast of new sitcom Not Going Out as Kate, but she quit the show after the first series. Dodds' most famous movie role is perhaps the spoiled and selfish stepsister Margeurite in the 1998 romance Ever After.

Personal life

After coming to the UK in 1997, she met fashion and advertising photographer Oliver Pearce.[6] The couple married and had one daughter, Isabella, who they lived with in Battersea, South London.

She is a fan of tennis and Roger Federer, and her friends include actress Rachel Feinstein.[7] Her guiltiest pleasure is smoking.[7]

Filmography

Theatre

List of Stage Credits:[5]

Year Show Role Theatre Notes
1995 The School for Scandal Maria Lyceum Theatre, New York
1996 Ancient History/English Made Simple Jill Primary Stages (off-Broadway)
1997 Popcorn Brooke Daniels Apollo Theatre, London Ben Elton asked her to audition for the role
1999 Hamlet Ophelia Young Vic Theatre, London
1999 As You Like It Celia Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Massachusetts cast included Gwyneth Paltrow
2002 Up for Grabs Mindy Wyndham's Theatre, London cast included Madonna, who made her West End theatre debut in the production
2005 This Is How It Goes Woman Donmar Warehouse, London
2005 My Name is Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie Royal Court Theatre, London
2006 My Name is Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie Royal Court Theatre, London won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress[5]
2006 My Name is Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie The Playhouse Theatre, London
2006 My Name is Rachel Corrie Rachel Corrie Minetta Lane Theatre (off-Broadway)

Film and TV

Year Title Produced by Character Notes
1990 Midnight Caller Crystal
1994 Psychic Detective Reporter
1998 Ever After 20th Century Fox Marguerite De Ghent alongside Drew Barrymore. Highest grossing movie so far - $65.7 million
1998 The Rat Pack HBO May Britt
2000 Urbania Lions Gate Deedee
2000 Bait Castle Rock Agent Walsh with Jamie Foxx
2000 Interstate 84 Wendy
2001 Sword of Honour TV Virginia
2001 Love in a Cold Climate BBC One Polly TV miniseries
2002 Purpose Lisa Forrester
2002–2004 Spooks BBC One Christine Dale CIA agent - 23 episodes
2004 The Hollow ITV1 Henrietta Savernake part of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
2005 Malice Aforethought ITV1 Madeleine Cranmere
2005 Festival Pathé Dina film nominated for a BAFTA
2006 London
2006 Free Jimmy Columbia TriStar voice
2006 Viva Blackpool BBC One Kitty de Lux
2006 Not Going Out BBC Kate Series one
2006 The Contract Redbus Film Distribution Sandra with John Cusack and Morgan Freeman, filmed in Bulgaria
2008 Hotel Babylon BBC One
2009 Lie to Me 20th Century Fox Gail
2009 House 20th Century Fox Dr. Beasley
2010 Chatroom Film 4, WestEnd Films & UK Film Council Grace Rollins
2011 Detroit 1-8-7 ABC Special Agent Jess Harkins

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References

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