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Celeste Dodwell
Australian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Early life and education
Dodwell was born to A Country Practice actor Grant Dodwell and shoe designer Sian Dodwell, (who worked on the Australian production of Billy Elliot).[1]
She attended Mosman High School in Mosman, New South Wales.[2] She topped the state in drama in her HSC, and at age 18, found out she had scored a role in Home and Away just three days after her final high school exam.[1]
Career
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.[3] She graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2013.[4] In 2014, she appeared with Felicity Kendal in a UK tour of Hay Fever as Jackie.[5]
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.[6][7]
Her film roles have included Allied alongside Brad Pitt, Cyrano with Peter Dinklage and the 2022 Bill Nighy film Living.[8]
In 2022, she appeared as Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing at the National Theatre, London.[9] On 8 September 2022, the production was filmed and broadcast live for cinemas.[10] That year, she also appeared as Joanne in season three of Atlanta.[11]
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.[12][13][14]
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Film
Television
Theatre
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