Dawn Steele

Dawn Steele (born 11 December 1975) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for her portrayals of 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. Steele played Ange Godard in BBC's Holby City until it ended in March 2022.

Early life and education Dawn Steele was born in Glasgow and 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 (RSAMD) in Glasgow from 1994 to 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.

Career Steele's most notable role was as Lexie MacDonald in seasons one through six in the BBC drama Monarch of the Glen, between 2000 and 2004. In January 2005, she appeared as new character Justine McManus in the second season 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. 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.

In January 2006, Steele returned in the third season of Sea of Souls. In April 2007 she played Shazza in Simon Farquhar's 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. 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 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. In 2009 she returned to TV screens in the fourth season of ITV's Wild at Heart, playing a new character, Alice Collins, as the replacement for Amanda Holden 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 Stephen Jardine.

In 2010, she returned once more as Alice for a 10-episode run in the fifth season of the 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 Noël Coward'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 playing Dr. Annie Jandhu. Steele left 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 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.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1999 Highlander: The Raven Brynn Episode 21: "War and Peace" 1999 Haywire Multiple roles 1999 The Debt Collector Barmaid 1999 Split Second Kathy Kennedy 1999 Gregory's Two Girls Jan 2000–2004 Monarch of the Glen Lexie MacDonald Series regular; also credited as Lexie McTavish 2000 Tinsel Town Teresa Mullen Series regular 2001 Tabloid Tori 2002 Club Le Monde Jacqui Independent film 2002 Snoddy Laura Bonney Four episodes 2003 The Key Mary Three episodes 2005−2006 Sea of Souls Justine McManus Series regular 2006 Magnolia Sheila Television movie 2007 Surveillance Amy Conroy 2007 True Dare Kiss Tanya Two episodes 2009−2012 Wild at Heart Alice Collins Series regular; also credited as Alice Trevanion 2013 Case Histories Charlotte McGill Two episodes 2015 The Treehouse Mum Short film 2015−2018 River City Annie Jandhu Series regular; also credited as Annie Murdoch 2017, 2020 Liar Catherine McAulay Two episodes 2019−2022 Holby City Ange Godard Series regular 2019 Marionette Tina Television movie 2022−2026 Granite Harbour Cora Macmillan BBC TV drama series 2023 Shetland Stella Quinn BBC TV drama series 8 character 2026 EastEnders Sandra Goodwin BBC Soap Opera TBA Rhona Who Lives by the River Elspeth Upcoming series

Theatre ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany The Perfect Murder Joan Smiley Ian Talbot Volcano Melissa Littleton Roy Marsden Thelma Holt & Bill Kenwright Verdict Lisa Koletsky Joe Harmston Bill Kenwright Ltd Blackbird 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 Glauke Theatre Babel Rainbow Kiss Shazza Richard Wilson Royal Court Theatre