Monica Dolan

Monica Dolan

Known for
Acting
Born
March 15, 1969 (age 57)
Birthplace
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

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Filmography

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Book Club poster

Book Club

Movie · as Jane

2026
The Lost Children of Tuam poster

The Lost Children of Tuam

Movie · as Catherine Corless

2026
Elsinore poster

Elsinore

Movie · as Linda

2026
Onwards and Sideways poster

Onwards and Sideways

Movie · as Liz Evans

2025
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties

The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties

Movie · as Self (Narrator)

2024
This Time Next Year poster

This Time Next Year

Movie · as Connie

2024
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone poster

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

Movie · as Mrs. Dorman

2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office poster

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

TV · as Jo Hamilton · 4 eps

2024
Smoggie Queens poster

Smoggie Queens

TV · as Paula · 3 eps

2023
Typist Artist Pirate King poster

Typist Artist Pirate King

Movie · as Audrey Amiss

2023
The Change poster

The Change

TV · as Carmel · 7 eps

2022
Empire of Light poster

Empire of Light

Movie · as Rosemary Bates

2022
My Name Is Leon poster

My Name Is Leon

Movie · as Maureen

2022
A Woman Walks Into A Bank poster

A Woman Walks Into A Bank

Movie · as Narrator

2022
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe poster

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

TV · as Anne Darwin · 4 eps

2022
Sherwood poster

Sherwood

TV · as Ann Branson · 6 eps

2021
Cyrano poster

Cyrano

Movie · as Marie

2021
The Dig poster

The Dig

Movie · as May Brown

2020
Days of the Bagnold Summer poster

Days of the Bagnold Summer

Movie · as Sue

2020
Rialto poster

Rialto

Movie · as Claire

2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads poster

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

TV · as Lorna · 1 ep

2019
National Theatre Live: All About Eve poster

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

Movie · as Karen Richards

2019
Official Secrets poster

Official Secrets

Movie · as Fiona Bygate

2018
A Very English Scandal poster

A Very English Scandal

TV · as Marion Thorpe · 3 eps

2018
Hang Ups poster

Hang Ups

TV · as Alison Jones · 2 eps

2017
Fern poster

Fern

Movie · as Woman

2017
Strike poster

Strike

TV · as Leonora Quine · 2 eps

2016
Eye in the Sky poster

Eye in the Sky

Movie · as Angela Northman

2016
The Witness for the Prosecution poster

The Witness for the Prosecution

TV · as Janet McIntyre · 2 eps

2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories poster

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

TV · as Dr Marshall, Café Manager, Nora, Miranda Walker · 1 ep

2015
The Falling poster

The Falling

Movie · as Miss Martha Alvaro

2015
The Casual Vacancy poster

The Casual Vacancy

TV · as Tess Wall · 3 eps

2015
Wolf Hall poster

Wolf Hall

TV · as Alice More · 2 eps

2014
Pride poster

Pride

Movie · as Marion

2014
W1A poster

W1A

TV · as Tracey Pritchard · 14 eps

2014
Inside No. 9 poster

Inside No. 9

TV · as May · 1 ep

2013
Kick-Ass 2 poster

Kick-Ass 2

Movie · as Tommy's Mum

2013
Complicit poster

Complicit

Movie · as Judith

2013
Out of Darkness poster

Out of Darkness

Movie

2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa poster

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Movie · as Angela

2013
The Escape Artist poster

The Escape Artist

TV · as Eileen Morris · 2 eps

2012
Sightseers poster

Sightseers

Movie · as Janice

2011
Meconium poster

Meconium

Movie · as Kel (voice)

2011
Appropriate Adult poster

Appropriate Adult

TV · as Rose West · 2 eps

2011
DCI Banks poster

DCI Banks

TV · as Maggie Forrest · 1 ep

2011
Black Mirror poster

Black Mirror

TV · as Janet McCardle, CS Linda Grace · 1 ep

2011
Death in Paradise poster

Death in Paradise

TV · as Patricia Lawrence · 1 ep

2010
The Arbor poster

The Arbor

Movie · as Ann Hamilton

2010
Excluded

Excluded

Movie · as Amanda

2010
Never Let Me Go poster

Never Let Me Go

Movie · as Nurse

2010
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge poster

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

TV · as Angela · 2 eps

2009
Occupation poster

Occupation

Movie · as Nicky Swift

2009
Within the Whirlwind poster

Within the Whirlwind

Movie · as Pitkowskaya

2009
U Be Dead poster

U Be Dead

Movie · as Maria Marchese

2009
Occupation poster

Occupation

TV · as Nicky Swift · 3 eps

2008
King Lear poster

King Lear

Movie · as Regan

2007
The History of Mr Polly poster

The History of Mr Polly

Movie

2005
Guernsey poster

Guernsey

Movie · as Claire

2005
Wallis & Edward poster

Wallis & Edward

Movie · as Elizabeth

2003
She Stoops to Conquer poster

She Stoops to Conquer

Movie · as Miss Kate Hardcastle

2002
Tipping the Velvet poster

Tipping the Velvet

TV · as Alice Astley · 1 ep

1999
Topsy-Turvy poster

Topsy-Turvy

Movie · as Miss Barnes

1998
The Gift poster

The Gift

Movie · as Jo

1997
Midsomer Murders poster

Midsomer Murders

TV · as Imogen Stroud · 1 ep

1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream poster

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Movie · as Hermia

1996
Dalziel and Pascoe poster

Dalziel and Pascoe

TV · as Megan Lowry · 1 ep

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot poster

Agatha Christie's Poirot

TV · as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio · 1 ep

1971
A Ghost Story for Christmas poster

A Ghost Story for Christmas

TV · as Mrs. Dorman · 1 ep