Monica Dolan
Born: 1969-03-15 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier Award winning actor whose work spans television, film and stage. Monica was born in March 1969 into an Irish family and has a sister Gabrielle. She studied drama at the Guildhall School in London, graduating in 1991 and soon afterwards went into television. A supremely versatile character actress, she has tended to specialize in stunning portrayals of the darker side of life, as real-life stalker Maria Marchese in U Be Dead (2009), demure but deadly Miss Gilchrist in the superior Poirot adaptation Poirot: After the Funeral (2006) and, particularly, as serial killer Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) for which she, along with fellow Guildhall graduate Dominic West, deservedly received a BAFTA award.
Filmography
2026
- The Lost Children of Tuam as Catherine Corless
2025
- The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties as Self (Narrator)
2024
- Smoggie Queens as Paula
- Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Jo Hamilton
- This Time Next Year as Connie
- A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone as Mrs. Dorman
2023
- The Change as Carmel
- Typist Artist Pirate King as Audrey Amiss
2022
- Sherwood as Ann Branson
- Empire of Light as Rosemary Bates
- The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin
- My Name Is Leon as Maureen
- A Woman Walks Into A Bank as Narrator
2020
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Lorna
- Days of the Bagnold Summer as Sue
- Rialto as Claire
2019
- Official Secrets as Fiona Bygate
- National Theatre Live: All About Eve as Karen Richards
2018
- Hang Ups as Alison Jones
- A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe
2016
- Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories as Dr Marshall
- The Witness for the Prosecution as Janet McIntyre
2015
- Wolf Hall as Alice More
- Eye in the Sky as Angela Northman
- The Casual Vacancy as Tess Wall
- The Falling as Miss Martha Alvaro
2014
- Inside No. 9 as May
- Pride as Marion
- W1A as Tracey Pritchard
2013
- Kick-Ass 2 as Tommy's Mum
- Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa as Angela
- The Escape Artist as Eileen Morris
- Complicit as Judith
- Out of Darkness
2012
- Sightseers as Janice
2011
- Death in Paradise as Patricia Lawrence
- Black Mirror as Janet McCardle
- DCI Banks as Maggie Forrest
- Appropriate Adult as Rose West
- Meconium as Kel (voice)
2010
- Never Let Me Go as Nurse
- Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge as Angela
- The Arbor as Ann Hamilton
- Excluded as Amanda
2009
- Within the Whirlwind as Pitkowskaya
- Occupation as Nicky Swift
- Occupation as Nicky Swift
- U Be Dead as Maria Marchese
2008
- King Lear as Regan
2005
- Guernsey as Claire
- Wallis & Edward as Elizabeth
2003
- She Stoops to Conquer as Miss Kate Hardcastle
2002
- Tipping the Velvet as Alice Astley
1999
- Topsy-Turvy as Miss Barnes
1998
- The Gift as Jo
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Imogen Stroud
1996
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
1971
- A Ghost Story for Christmas as Mrs. Dorman