Dawn Anne Steele is a Scottish actress best known for her portrayals of the characters Alexandra "Lexie" MacDonald from the British Broadcasting Corporation drama Monarch of the Glen & Alice Trevanion in Independent Television drama series Wild at Heart.
Background
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 in Glasgow from 1994–1998, supporting her early career as a waitress in the Rogano Restaurant.
Education
1994 - 1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Bachelor Dramatic Studies (Honours)
1998 - Graduated First Class Honours
1998 - Winner of Silver Medal RSAMD.
Career
Her most notable role was as Alexandra "Lexie" MacDonald in the hit British Broadcasting Corporation 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 British Broadcasting Corporation’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 British Broadcasting Corporation 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 series of Sea of Souls. In April 2007 she played Shazza in Simon Farquhar"s powerful Aberdonian drama Rainbow Kiss at the Royal Court 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 British Broadcasting Corporation 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, Glasgow. In 2009 she returned to television screens in the 4th series of Independent Television"s Wild at Heart, playing a new character, Alice Collins, as replacement for Amanda Holden who left the show after the third series. 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 series of the popular show Wild at Heart.
She returned again for another 10-episode run in the sixth series of Wild at Heart but as Alice Trevanion. Alice and Danny got engaged at the end of series five.
There will be no 8th series, but Dawn returned for the last ever episode, a two-hour special, which was shown on 30 December 2012. She openly admitted to crying throughout the six-week filming period of the special.
In 2011, Agatha Christie Company"s national tour of the 1958 play Verdict starred Dawn Steele playing the part of Lisa Koletzky.
In May 2012 she returned to the stage for the United Kingdom tour of Noël Coward"s Volcano as Melissa Littleton and which transferred to the West End in August. Dawn appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation 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, playing the character Joan Smiley.
In October 2015 Dawn joined the cast of the BBC1 Scotland Drama River City playing Doctor Annie Jandhu.
1994 - 1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Bachelor Dramatic Studies (Honours).