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Dawn Steele (born 11 December 1975) is a Scottish actress best known for her portrayals of the characters Alexandra “Lexie” MacDonald from the BBC drama '' Monarch of the Glen'', Alice Trevanion in the ITV drama series '' Wild at Heart'' and Dr. Annie Jandhu/Murdoch in BBC Soap Opera ''
River City ''River City'' is a Scottish television soap opera that was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 24 September 2002. ''River City'' follows the lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch. In November 2017, a s ...
''. Steele played Ange Godard in BBC's
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until it ended in March 2022.


Career

Dawn Steele was born in Glasgow and moved to
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in 1982, attended
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Academy from around 1987–1993 and studied at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( gd, Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ( gd, Acadamaidh Rìoghail Ciùil is Dràma na h-Alba) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and ...
(RSAMD) in Glasgow from 1994 to 1998, supporting her early career as a waitress in the Rogano Restaurant. She graduated with
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in July 1998, and was the winner of the silver medal at the RSAMD in 1998. Her most notable role was as Alexandra "Lexie" MacDonald in seasons one through six in the BBC drama '' Monarch of the Glen'', between 1999 and 2004. In January 2005, she appeared as new character Justine McManus in the second season of the
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’s paranormal drama show ''
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'' with
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and Bill Paterson. Before she teamed up with Iain Robertson to work on ''
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'' they had previously worked together on '' The Slab Boys'' and '' The Debt Collector''. Shortly after, she appeared as a student on the BBC reality show ''
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'' in a second all-celebrity series in aid of the charity '' Comic Relief does Fame Academy''. In January 2006, Steele returned in the third season of ''
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''. In April 2007 she played Shazza in
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's powerful Aberdonian drama ''Rainbow Kiss'' at the
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in London's West End. Reviews praised her performance as a promiscuous beautician who becomes the object of a lethal obsession. In 2002 Steele was voted the Most Eligible Woman in Scotland and followed this up in 2003 when she was voted the second most eligible woman in Scotland by readers of a Sunday newspaper. Steele starred in a one-off
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comedy, ''Magnolia'', which aired on 22 September 2006. In November 2007 she made her
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debut as the Wicked Witch ''Carrion'' in ''
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'' at the
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. In 2009 she returned to TV screens in the fourth season of
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's '' Wild at Heart'', playing a new character, Alice Collins, as the replacement for
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who left the show after the third season. In the summer of 2009, she guest presented STV's daily lifestyle show '' The Hour'' for a week, alongside main anchor
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. In 2010, she returned once more as Alice for a 10-episode run in the fifth season of the popular show '' Wild at Heart''. She returned again for another 10-episode run in the sixth season of ''Wild at Heart'' but as Alice Trevanion; Alice and Danny got engaged at the end of season five. There will be no eighth season, but Steele returned for the last ever episode, a two-hour special, which was shown on 30 December 2012. In 2011, Agatha Christie Theatre Company's national tour of the 1958 play ''Verdict'' starred Steele playing the part of Lisa Koletzky. In May 2012 she returned to the stage for the UK tour of
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's ''Volcano'' as Melissa Littleton and which transferred to the West End in August. Steele appeared in the BBC Crime Drama ''Case Histories'' which aired in June 2013, playing the part of Charlotte McGill. In 2014 she appeared in the stage show of the Peter James novel ''The Perfect Murder''. In October 2015 Steele joined the cast of the BBC1 Scotland Drama ''
River City ''River City'' is a Scottish television soap opera that was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 24 September 2002. ''River City'' follows the lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch. In November 2017, a s ...
'' playing Dr. Annie Jandhu. Steele quit ''River City'' in 2018 stating that the commute from her home in Kent had become too much. On 19 September 2018, it was announced that Steele had joined the cast of BBC medical drama ''
Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama ''Casualty'', and pr ...
'' in the role of consultant general surgeon Ange Godard. She made her first appearance in the show's twenty-first series, broadcast in January 2019.


Education

*1994–1998
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( gd, Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba), formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ( gd, Acadamaidh Rìoghail Ciùil is Dràma na h-Alba) is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production, and ...
, Glasgow, BA Dramatic Studies (Hons) *1998 – Graduated First Class Honours *1998 – Winner of Silver Medal RSAMD


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Steele, Dawn 1975 births Living people Actresses from Glasgow Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Scottish film actresses Scottish soap opera actresses Scottish stage actresses Scottish television actresses People from Milton of Campsie