Megan Dodds

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
Born	(1970-05-20) May 20, 1970 (age 55)[1] Sacramento, California, U.S.
Education	Juilliard School (BFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Spouse	Oliver Pearce
Children	1

Early life

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]}

Career

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]

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".^[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]

Television and film

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]

Personal life

After relocating to England in 1997, Dodds met Oliver Pearce, fashion and advertising photographer. They later married and they have one child.^[2]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Psychic Detective	Reporter	Voice role[14]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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]