Career

After graduation, Dodds spent two years in Broadway and Off Broadway productions.[citation needed] 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

Dodds' stage roles include a part in As You Like It (1999).[clarification needed][where?][citation needed]

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] 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] 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] 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]

Television and film

Dodds has appeared in television shows such as Love in a Cold Climate (2001),[citation needed] the BBC series Spooks[7] (in the U.S., MI-5; 2002-2004),[citation needed] 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] They have one child, Isabella, born c. 2001.[1]

Filmography

Television

Stage

Film

Video games

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