Dawn Steele

Dawn Steele is a Scottish actress born in Glasgow who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating with first class honors in 1998 and winning the academy's silver medal. She became familiar to viewers as Lexie MacDonald in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen, a part she played across the show's first six seasons from 2000 to 2004. Later television work included Sea of Souls, where she played Justine McManus, and the ITV drama Wild at Heart, in which she took over as Alice Collins in 2009 and later appeared as Alice Trevanion. On stage, critics praised her performance in Rainbow Kiss at London's Royal Court in 2007, and she toured in Verdict and Volcano, the second moving to the West End. From 2015 to 2018 she played Dr. Annie Jandhu in River City, and from 2019 she appeared as Ange Godard in Holby City until the medical drama finished in March 2022.