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Megan Lynne Dodds (born February 15, 1970) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Kate in the 2006 series Not Going Out, alongside Lee Mack and Tim Vine. Based in the United Kingdom, her other notable works include multi-episode appearances in the series Spooks, House, Detroit 1-8-7, and NY, and roles in the films

Ever After, The Contract, and Chatroom. Dodds' 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.

Early life

Megan Lynne Dodds was born on February 15, 1970,{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} in Sacramento, California.^[1] After high school, she 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|date=January 2017}}^[2]

Career

After graduation, Dodds spent two years in Broadway and Off Broadway productions.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} She 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."^[3]

Theatre

In Up for Grabs (2006, Wyndham's Theatre, London), Dodds filled the role of a dot com entrepreneur, co-starring with Madonna, which played to a lack of critical success for the headliner, but that nevertheless saw Dodds grouped, positively, with "strong supporting players",^[4] 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] The show opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} A move was planned to the New York Theatre Workshop, but it was cancelled in Fall 2005^[1]—amid rumors that the Workshop feared possible response to the show's political content.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} 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.{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}} 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.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Television and film

Dodds has appeared in television shows such as Love in a Cold Climate (2001),{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} the BBC series Spooks^[7] (in the U.S., MI-5; 2002-2004),{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} 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 love interest 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 going to England in 1997, Dodds met fashion and advertising photographer Oliver Pearce.^[1] They later married^[1] and moved to Battersea, London.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} They have one child, Isabella, born {{circa}} 2001.^[1]

Filmography

Television

Stage

Film

Video games

References

1. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³{{cite journal | author = Henderson, Kathy & Dodds, Megan | date = 16 October 2006 | title = Fresh Face: Megan Dodds | format = interview | journal = Broadway.com | via = | url=http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=538120 | dead-url = yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061016193204/http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=538120 | archive-date=16 October 2006 | access-date=27 January 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web | author = Juillard Staff & Dodds, Megan | date = November 2007 | title = Drama, 1990s | work = Alumni News | location = New York, NY | publisher = The Juilliard School | via = Juilliard.edu | url=http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2007-2008/0711/index.php | dead-url = yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111120059/http://juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2007-2008/0711/index.php | archive-date=11 November 2011 | access-date=27 January 2017}} Note, while alumni news sections are essentially a form of self-publication, use of this citation simply supports that Dodds was at Juillard, in Group 24 (an assigned category for the citation that would not have been a matter of self-reporting).
3. ^{{cite journal | author = SOLT Staff | date = 30 March 2006 | title = The Big Interview: Megan Dodds | format = | journal = London Theatre Guide | via = OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk | url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display?contentId=88741 | dead-url = yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203307/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/display?contentId=88741 | archive-date=27 September 2007 | access-date=27 January 2017}}
4. ^¹²{{Cite news | author = Billington, Michael | date = 23 May 2002 | title = Up For Grabs | format = theatrical review | journal = The Guardian | via = | url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2002/may/24/theatre.artsfeatures2 | access-date=27 January 2017 | quote = [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.}}
5. ^¹²{{cite journal | author = Wolf, Matt | date = 27 May 2002 | title = [Theatrical] Review: 'Up for Grabs' | format = | journal = Variety.com | via = | url=https://variety.com/2002/legit/reviews/up-for-grabs-2-1200549336/ | access-date=27 January 2017 | quote = [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. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷{{cite journal | author = Broadway.com Staff | date = 28 August 2006 | title = Broadway Buzz, Star Files: Megan Dodds | format = online db entry | journal = NYTimes.TheatreDirect.com | via = Broadway.com | url=http://nytimes.theatredirect.com/gen/Buzz_Star_File.aspx?ci=535645 | dead-url = yes | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071008092356/http://nytimes.theatredirect.com/gen/Buzz_Star_File.aspx?ci=535645 | archive-date=8 October 2007 | access-date=27 January 2017}}
7. ^¹²{{cite journal | author = BBC Staff | date = 24 September 2014 | title = Actor Info: Megan Dodds | journal = BBC.co.uk | via = | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/personnel_md.shtml | access-date=27 January 2017}} See also: {{cite journal | author = BBC Staff | date = 24 September 2014 | title = Character Info: Christine Dale | journal = BBC.co.uk | via = | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/personnel_cd.shtml | access-date=27 January 2017}}
8. ^¹²{{cite journal | author = BBC Drama Staff | date = 28 October 2014 | title = Viva Blackpool | format = | journal = BBC.co.uk | via = | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/vivablackpool/index.shtml#kitty | access-date=27 January 2017}}
9. ^{{Cite news | author = Curtis, Nick | date = 13 January 2017 | title = Lee Mack: 'I Wouldn't Be Surprised If Many Comics Came From Broken Homes' | journal = The Telegraph | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/lee-mack-wouldnt-surprised-many-comics-came-broken-homes/ | access-date = 26 January 2017 | quote = [Quote:] Mack’s character, also called Lee, lost his original love interest, played by Megan Dodds, after the first series… }}
10. ^{{cite journal | author = Sollosi, Mary | date = 29 July 2016 | title = 17 Reasons Ever After is the Best Cinderella Movie Ever | journal = Entertainment Weekly | via = EW.com | url = http://ew.com/article/2016/07/29/ever-after-best-cinderella-movie-ever/ | access-date = 26 January 2017 | quote = [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. ^¹²{{Cite AV media notes | authors = Simmons, Jim; Kaplan, Michael; Sanborn, John|display-authors=etal|year= 1995 | title= Psychic Detective: About the Movie | others= (Colossal)Picture, producer | url= https://archive.org/details/Psychic_Detective_1995_Electronic_Arts_US_about_the_movie | access-date= 27 January 2017 | page= 8, of 13 |type= game/film production notes |publisher= 3DO/Electronic Arts |id= ID No. 726315 |location=San Matteo, CA |ref=}} See also the main article for this game.