Career
Born in Chichester, West Sussex, Bodimeade was a pupil at Stonar School in Wiltshire from 2001 to 2011. Bodimeade starred in her first lead role as Maddy in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated British Broadcasting Corporation television drama Summerhill, about the radical school of the same name. She went on to appear as Megan in two seasons of the CBBC television series "Paradise Cafe" filmed in New Zealand and the Cook Islands.