Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 15, 1969
Place of Birth:
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Monica Dolan
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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties | Self (Narrator) |
| 2024 | This Time Next Year | Connie |
| 2023 | Typist Artist Pirate King | Audrey Amiss |
| 2022 | Empire of Light | Rosemary Bates |
| 2022 | My Name Is Leon | Maureen |
| 2022 | A Woman Walks Into A Bank | Narrator |
| 2021 | Cyrano | Marie |
| 2021 | The Dig | May Brown |
| 2020 | Days of the Bagnold Summer | Sue |
| 2020 | Rialto | Claire |
| 2019 | National Theatre Live: All About Eve | Karen Richards |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Fiona Bygate |
| 2017 | Fern | Woman |
| 2015 | The Falling | Miss Martha Alvaro |
| 2015 | Eye in the Sky | Angela Northman |
| 2014 | Pride | Marion |
| 2013 | Kick-Ass 2 | Tommy's Mum |
| 2013 | Complicit | Judith |
| 2013 | Out of Darkness | |
| 2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Angela |
| 2012 | Sightseers | Janice |
| 2011 | Meconium | Kel (voice) |
| 2010 | The Arbor | Ann Hamilton |
| 2010 | Excluded | |
| 2010 | Never Let Me Go | Nurse |
| 2009 | Occupation | Nicky Swift |
| 2009 | Within the Whirlwind | Pitkowskaya |
| 2009 | U Be Dead | Maria Marchese |
| 2008 | King Lear | Regan |
| 2007 | The History of Mr Polly | |
| 2005 | Guernsey | Claire |
| 2005 | Wallis & Edward | Elizabeth |
| 2003 | She Stoops to Conquer | Miss Kate Hardcastle |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Miss Barnes |
| 1998 | The Gift | Jo |
| 1996 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hermia |
| Book Club | Jane | |
| Once Removed | May | |
| The Lost Children of Tuam | Catherine Corless |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mr Bates vs The Post Office | Jo Hamilton |
| 2023 | The Change | Carmel |
| 2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | Anne Darwin |
| 2022 | Sherwood | Ann Branson |
| 2020 | Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Lorna |
| 2018 | A Very English Scandal | Marion Thorpe |
| 2018 | Hang Ups | Alison Jones |
| 2017 | Strike | Leonora Quine |
| 2016 | Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories | |
| 2016 | The Witness for the Prosecution | Janet McIntyre |
| 2015 | The Casual Vacancy | Tess Wall |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Alice More |
| 2014 | W1A | Tracey Pritchard |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | May |
| 2013 | The Escape Artist | Eileen Morris |
| 2011 | Appropriate Adult | Rose West |
| 2011 | DCI Banks | Maggie Forrest |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | Janet McCardle |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | CS Linda Grace |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Patricia Lawrence |
| 2010 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Angela |
| 2009 | Occupation | Nicky Swift |
| 2002 | Tipping the Velvet | Alice Astley |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Imogen Stroud |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio |
| 1971 | A Ghost Story for Christmas | Mrs. Dorman |