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Dee Cannon is Anglo American. She trained as an actress in London at Arts Educational Drama School on the three year acting diploma course and subsequently with Uta Hagen at the HB Studio, New York. She continues the work of her highly respected mother, Doreen Cannon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dee worked for many years in TV, film and theatre and also formed her own theatre company Women in Masques where she produced and acted in a variety of well received plays. Doreen Cannon - click for Wikipedia

In 1993 she was invited to teach and direct at RADA where she has been the main senior acting teacher for seventeen years and has directed over 25 plays there.

Dee Cannon has run scene study workshops at the Actor's Centre in London and gives master classes in LA, New York, Stockholm, Berlin, Gothenberg, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the Philippines.

Dee also finds time to coach for film, TV, theatre and pop videos. Among many others, she has coached Jon Voight, Matthew Modine and Courtney Love. She has also worked with numerous actors from the RSC and Royal National Theatre. Her work as an acting coach was featured in Channel 4's award winning series Faking It and Joe Millionaire UK.

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Dee has just come back from Bulgaria, where she spent two months as on-set acting coach on the remake of the Hollywood feature film Conan

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The making of Conan

Her work was featured in three Hollywood Special programmes for BBC's Blue Peter, in which Dee was mentor and acting coach to presenter Joel Defries. Pictures on the Dee in Action page.

Dee completed 2 weeks of Master class workshops in Israel in December 2009.

Dee recently directed Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean at RADA in the GBS Theatre.  She was invited to work at E15 on the MA international Acting course. 

Dee recently completed pre-production work on feature film The Frost in Norway and Spain.

Other recent RADA productions include V-Day (Vagina Monologues) and The Diary of Anne Frank.  See the Dee in Action page for production shots. 

 

  • Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: main acting teacher for the last seventeen years
  • Stella Mann School of Dancing: head of acting 1990-1995
  • Berliner Schule fur Schauspiel - Berlin
  • Academy of Music and Drama - Sweden
  • Theatre Tir Na Nog - Sweden
  • Beit Zvi Drama School. - Israel
  • Nissan Nativ Drama School. - Israel
  • TVI Acting Studio - LA / London
  • Pro Acting Workshops - Philippines
  • Actors Centre - London
  • RADA - Professional Acting Workshops
  • Actors Center - New York

  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
  • Look Homeward Angel
  • Relative Values
  • Anna Lucasta
  • Aspects of Love
  • La Malquerida
  • The Devil's Interval
  • Yentl  
  • Steel Magnolias
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Jail Talk
  • I Am a Camera
  • The Imaginary Invalid
  • The Promise
  • True West
  • Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • The Marriage
  • Time and the Conways
  • Tobacco Road
  • The Good Doctor
  • As You Like It
  • The Winter's Tale
  • When We Are Married

 

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Dee directs a rehearsal
of Relative Values at RADA

 

 

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  • Reaching For the Stars: David Garrick Studio.
    with Francis Barber, Sally Dexter.and Caroline Catz
  • The Ridge: George Bernard Shaw Theatre.
    with Janet Mcteer.

  • Blue Peter BBC (featured acting coach )
  • Do Something Different CBBC
    (featured acting coach )
  • Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother (Guest) Endemol Channel 4
  • Commando Nanny (Sitcom): Warner Brothers' Studios Hollywood LA. Produced by Mark Burnett.
  • Faking it: Episode with fashion photographer: featured acting coach in award winning Channel 4 Series
  • Joe Millionaire UK: Featured acting coach in Channel 4 series
  • Fuji TV Japan – Program Featuring Jail Talk Rehearsals with Takayasu Komiya 

  • Jon Voight
  • David Ginola
  • Matthew Modine
  • Courtney Love
  • Natalie Imbruglia
  • Emma Bunton
  • Gareth Gates
  • Billie Piper
  • Sinead O'Connor
  • Daisy O'Donovan
  • and many others, including numerous actors and singers at
    The Royal National Theatre
    Royal Shakespeare Theatre

    BBC

    ITV

    Channel 4
    Warner Bros
    Miramax
    CBS
    Hallmark
    Impossible Pictures
    Jim Henson Company
    BMG Records

    RDF Television
    Wall to Wall Television
    Zephyr Films
    LionsGate
    Sony Music
    19 Entertainment

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Film & television coaching

Coaching work on films includes:

  • Conan
  • Iron Cross
  • The Frost
  • Little Ashes
  • The Heavy
  • Spirit Trap
  • Things to do before you're 30
  • Death at a Funeral

Coaching work on television includes:

  • Primeval
  • Jack and the Beanstalk: the true story
  • Hotel Babylon
  • Bella and the Boys
  • Sons and Lovers
  • Hollyoaks
  • The Bill

Coaching work on pop videos includes:

  • Craig David - 7 days
  • Craig David - Walking Away
  • Craig David - Rendezvous  
  • K Gee (All Saints) - I Don't Really Care  
  • Peppercorn - Hyperventilating
  • Peppercorn - Nice To You
  • 5ive (Boy band) - Let's Dance
  • The Reelists - Freak Mode

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