| Dawn Steele | |
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| Born | Dawn Anne Steele 11 December 1975 Glasgow, Scotland |
Dawn Anne Steele (born 11 December 1975 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress best known for her roles in the TV series Monarch of the Glen, Sea of Souls & Wild at Heart.
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Dawn Steele was born in Glasgow, moved to Milton of Campsie in 1982, attended Kilsyth Academy from around 1987-1993 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow from 1994–1998, supporting her early career as a waitress in the Rogano Restaurant. She graduated with First Class Honours in July 1998, and was the winner of the Silver Medal at the RSAMD in 1998. [1]
She is perhaps best known as Alexandra "Lexie" MacDonald from the hit BBC drama Monarch of the Glen, a part which she played for series 1 - 6 of the show, 1999-2004 [2]. In January 2005, she appeared as new character Justine McManus in the second series of the BBC's paranormal drama show Sea of Souls with Iain Robertson and Bill Paterson. Before she teamed up with Iain Robertson to work on Sea of Souls they had previously worked together on The Slab Boys and The Debt Collector[3]. Shortly after, she appeared as a student on the BBC reality show Fame Academy in a second all-celebrity series in aid of the charity Comic Relief does Fame Academy.[4]
In January 2006, Steele returned in the third series of Sea of Souls [5]. In April 2007 she played Shazza in Simon Farquhar's powerful Aberdonian drama Rainbow Kiss at the Royal Court Theatre in London's West End. Reviews praised her performance as a promiscuous beautician who becomes the object of a lethal obsession.[6] In 2002 Steele was voted the Most Eligible Woman in Scotland [7] and followed this up in 2003 when she was voted the second most eligible woman in Scotland by readers of a Sunday newspaper. [8]
Steele starred in a one-off BBC One comedy, Magnolia, which aired on 22 September 2006. In November 2007 she made her pantomime debut as the Wicked Witch Carrion in Sleeping Beauty at the King's Theatre, Glasgow[9]. In 2009 she returned to TV screens in the 4th series of ITV's Wild at Heart [10], playing a new character as replacement for Amanda Holden who left the show after the third series. In 2010 she returned once more as Alice for a 10-episode run in the fifth series of the popular show. She has returned again for another 10-episode run in the sixth series of "Wild at Heart" but as Alice Trevanion; Alice and Danny got engaged at the end of series five and they are now having a baby. Steele is currently filming the seventh series of "Wild at Heart" which will be screened in 2012. In the summer of 2009, She guest presented STV's daily lifestyle show The Hour for a week, alongside main anchor Stephen Jardine.[11]
| Production - Character | Director | Company |
| Blackbird 2008 - Una | David Grindley | MJE Productions |
| Tutti Frutti - Suzi Kettles | Tony Cownie | National Theatre of Scotland |
| Home Edinburgh | Anthony Neilson | National Theatre of Scotland |
| The Slab Boys - Bernadette | Philip Howard | Traverse, Edinburgh |
| Electra - Crysothemis | Theatre Babel | |
| Medea - Gluake | Theatre Babel | |
| Rainbow Kiss - Shazza | Richard Wilson | Royal Court Theatre |
| Production - Character | Director | Company |
| Comic Relief does Fame Academy | Various | BBC/Comic Relief/Endemol |
| Sea of Souls - Justine McManus | Various | BBC Scotland |
| The Bedtime Hour (CBeebies) | BBC | |
| The Key - Mary | David Blair | BBC |
| Monarch of the Glen (6 series) - Lexie | Various | Ecosse Films/BBC Scotland |
| Snoddy - Laura | Colin Gilbert | BBC Scotland |
| Tinsel Town (2 series) | Various | Raindog for BBC |
| Highlander - War and Peace - Brynn | Gaumont TV | |
| Haywire | Peter Boyd MacLean | BBC |
| Split Second - Kathy | David Blair | BBC |
| Rain Dog Pilot | BBC Scotland | |
| In Search of the Unicorns | BBC | |
| Dreams and Recollections | Scottish Television | |
| Magnolia - Sheila | Red Productions | |
| Wild At Heart - Alice Trevanion | ITV |
| Production - Character | Director | Company |
| Tabloid TV - Tori | David Blair | Tabloid TV Productions |
| Club le Monde - Jacqui | Simon Rumley | Club le Monde Films |
| The Debt Collector | Anthony Neilson | Theatre Babel |
| Gregory's Two Girls - Jan | Bill Forsyth |