Eleanor Amy Dido Deloince, known professionally as Dido Miles, is an English actress.
14 Facts About Dido Miles
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Dido Miles is known for her role as Emma Reid on the BBC soap opera Doctors, for which she won two awards for at the RTS Midlands Awards.
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Dido Miles instead opted to use her mother's maiden name, Miles, following her mother's death when she was a teenager.
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Dido Miles spent a lot of time at the Mermaid Theatre as a child.
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Dido Miles attended comprehensive school in North London, where she dropped out aged 15.
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Aged 19, Dido Miles auditioned for actress Pat Heywood at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Dido Miles was nervous as she performed a monologue from Romeo and Juliet which Heywood had performed in a film.
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Dido Miles made her acting debut in an episode of the BBC anthology series Screenplay.
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Dido Miles starred in the 1996 film Emma as Isabella Knight.
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In May 2009, Dido Miles portrayed the role of Viv Bates in three episodes of the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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Dido Miles reprised her role as Viv for one episode in October 2019.
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In 2012, Dido Miles made her first appearance as Emma Reid in the BBC soap opera Doctors.
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Dido Miles took an unprompted and sudden extended break from the role at the end of 2023, to care for her dying father in real life.
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In 2024, Doctors was cancelled by the BBC and Dido Miles returned and remained in her role as Emma until its final episode.