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 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.

In 1993 she was invited to teach and direct at RADA where she is one of the main acting teachers and has directed over 20 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.

Dee is currently engaged on pre-production work on feature film The Frost in Norway and Spain.

Dee recently directed Noel Coward's Relative Values at RADA.  She has conducted series of workshops in Berlin and London and filmed Do Something Different for CBBC, which was aired in August 2007. 

 

  • Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: main acting teacher since 1993
  • Stella Mann School of Dancing: head of acting 1990-1995
  • Court Theatre Drama School: head of acting 1992-1993

 

  • Berliner Schule fur Schauspiel (Berlin School for Acting)
  • Academy of Music and Drama (Gothenberg, Sweden)
  • Theatre Tir Na Nog - Sweden
  • Beit Zvi Drama School. (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
  • Nissan Nativ Drama School. (Tel-Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel)
  • TVI Acting Studio (LA, California and London)
  • British Council - Professional Acting Workshops (Manila Philippines)
  • Actors Centre (London)
  • RADA Professional Acting Workshops.
  • Actors Center - Master Classes (New York, Manhattan)

  • 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

 

(Above)
Dee directs a rehearsal
of Relative Values at RADA

 

 

 

 

 

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

  • Do Something Different CBBC
    (featured acting coach )
  • Celebrity Big Brother's Little Brother (Guest) Endemol Channel 4
  • Commando Nanny (New 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
  • Billie Piper
  • Sinead O'Connor
  • Daisy O'Donovan
  • and many others, including numerous actors 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

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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