Dawn Steele

Dawn Steele Career

Dawn Ann Steele was born in Glasgow, moved to Milton of Campsie in 1982, attended Kilsyth Academy from around 1987-93 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. Graduated First Class Honours July 1998. Winner of Silver Medal RSAMD 1998.

Dawn Steele 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. 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. 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, Dawn returned in the third series of Sea of Souls. 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. She won sensational reviews for her performance as a promiscuous beautician who becomes the object of a lethal obsession. In 2003, she was voted the second most eligible woman in the Scotland on Sunday newspaper.

Dawn starred in a one-off BBC1 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 Dawn will return to TV screens in the 4th series of ITV1s "Wild at heart" playing a new character as replacement for Amanda Holden who left the show after the third series.

Dawn Steele Education

1994 - 1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, BA Dramatic Studies (Hons) 1998 - Graduated First Class Honours 1998 - Winner of Silver Medal RSAMD

Dawn Steele Work

Dawn Steele Theatre

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 Philip Howard Traverse, Edinburgh Electra - Crysothemis Theatre Babel Medea - Gluake Theatre Babel Rainbow Kiss - Shazza Richard Wilson Royal Court Theatre

Dawn Steele Television

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

Dawn Steele Film

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 Dragon Pictures

Dawn Steele Drama School

Production - Character Director Company Play Susan Worsfold RSAMD Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Lewis Palter RSAMD The Love of a Nightingale Deborah Richardson/Web RSAMD Romeo & Juliet Lorenzo Mele RSAMD The Ubu Plays Allan Sharpe RSAMD The Homosexual James Robert Carson RSAMD The Case of the Crushed Petunias Robert Robert Carson RSAMD The Steamie - Mrs Culfeathers Pete Lincoln