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

Midsomer Murders

Imogen Stroud

Black Mirror

Janet McCardle

Black Mirror

CS Linda Grace

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio

Death in Paradise

Patricia Lawrence

DCI Banks

Maggie Forrest

Inside No. 9

May

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties	Self (Narrator)
2024	This Time Next Year	Connie
2024	A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone	Mrs. Dorman
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
2016	The Witness for the Prosecution
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
1996	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hermia
	Book Club	Jane

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