Early life

Megan Lynne Dodds was born on February 15, 1970, in Sacramento, California. After high school, she enrolled in a community college, where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves. She next went to Juilliard School, where she studied for four years as a member of the Drama Division's Group 24 (1991-1995).

Career

After graduation, Dodds spent two years in Broadway and Off Broadway productions. She left the U.S. for London in 1997 to star in British comedian Ben Elton's play Popcorn. As a result of meeting her future husband, photographer Oliver Pearce, she stayed in London, 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."

Theatre

Dodds' stage roles include a part in As You Like It (1999).

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", as Mindy, Madonna's seductress, where she was described as combining "sexiness and solitude".

Dodds won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in 2007 for the one woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie, about an activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a 2003 demonstration in Gaza. The show opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London. A move was planned to the New York Theatre Workshop, but it was cancelled in Fall 2005—amid rumors that the Workshop feared possible response to the show's 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.

Television and film

Dodds has appeared in television shows such as Love in a Cold Climate (2001), the BBC series Spooks (in the U.S., MI-5; 2002-2004), and Viva Blackpool. 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.

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".

Personal life

After going to England in 1997, Dodds met fashion and advertising photographer Oliver Pearce. They later married and moved to Battersea, London. They have one child, Isabella, born c. 2001.

Filmography

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Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Midnight Caller	Crystal	Episode: "Planes"
2001	Love in a Cold Climate	Polly	Miniseries
2002-2004	Spooks	Christine Dale	10 episodes
2004	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Henrietta Savernake	Episode: "The Hollow"
2006	Not Going Out	Kate	6 episodes
2008	Hotel Babylon	Katie	Season 3, Episode 6
2009	Lie to Me	Gail	Episode: "Depraved Heart"
2009	House	Dr. Beasley	Episode: "Broken"
2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Jess Harkins	6 episodes
2012	Awake	Elizabeth Santoro	Episode: "Oregon"
2012-2013	CSI: NY	Christine Whitney	12 episodes
2014	White Collar	Eva Perkins	Episode: "All's Fair"

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	Mindy	Wyndham's Theatre
2005	This Is How It Goes	Woman	Donmar Warehouse
2006	My Name is Rachel Corrie	Rachel Corrie	Royal Court Theatre (London, 2005-2006), The Playhouse Theatre (London, 2006), and Minetta Lane Theatre (off-Broadway, 2006) London Theatregoers' Choice Award, Best Actress winner

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Ever After	Marguerite De Ghent
1998	The Rat Pack	May Britt	Television film
2000	Urbania	Deedee
2000	Bait	Agent Walsh
2000	Interstate 84	Wendy
2001	Sword of Honour	Virginia	Television film
2002	Purpose	Lisa Forrester
2005	Malice Aforethought	Madeleine Cranmere	Television film
2005	Festival	Dina
2006	Free Jimmy	Claire	Voice
2006	Viva Blackpool	Kitty De-Luxe	Television film
2006	The Contract	Sandra
2010	Chatroom	Grace Rollins
2015	Oceanus: Act One	Erin Kendall	Short Film

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Psychic Detective	Reporter	Voice

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