Monica Dolan
Acting • Born 1969-03-15
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
66 credits
Empire of Light
Movie • 2022
Rosemary Bates
Guernsey
Movie • 2005
Claire
Cyrano
Movie • 2021
Marie
King Lear
Movie • 2008
Regan
Kick-Ass 2
Movie • 2013
Tommy's Mum
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1996
Hermia
The Arbor
Movie • 2010
Ann Hamilton
Sightseers
Movie • 2012
Janice
Complicit
Movie • 2013
Judith
Out of Darkness
Movie • 2013
Occupation
Movie • 2009
Nicky Swift
My Name Is Leon
Movie • 2022
Maureen
The Gift
Movie • 1998
Jo
Pride
Movie • 2014
Marion
Typist Artist Pirate King
Movie • 2023
Audrey Amiss
The Falling
Movie • 2015
Miss Martha Alvaro
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Movie • 2013
Angela
A Woman Walks Into A Bank
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Excluded
Movie • 2010
This Time Next Year
Movie • 2024
Connie
The History of Mr Polly
Movie • 2007
Within the Whirlwind
Movie • 2009
Pitkowskaya
Eye in the Sky
Movie • 2015
Angela Northman
Never Let Me Go
Movie • 2010
Nurse
Wallis & Edward
Movie • 2005
Elizabeth
U Be Dead
Movie • 2009
Maria Marchese
Topsy-Turvy
Movie • 1999
Miss Barnes
She Stoops to Conquer
Movie • 2003
Miss Kate Hardcastle
Fern
Movie • 2017
Woman
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Movie • 2020
Sue
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Movie • 2019
Karen Richards
Rialto
Movie • 2020
Claire
The Dig
Movie • 2021
May Brown
Official Secrets
Movie • 2019
Fiona Bygate
Meconium
Movie • 2011
Kel (voice)
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
Movie • 2025
Self (Narrator)
Book Club
Movie
Jane
The Lost Children of Tuam
Movie
Catherine Corless
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
Movie • 2024
Mrs. Dorman
Elsinore
Movie
Occupation
TV • 2009
Nicky Swift
Appropriate Adult
TV • 2011
Rose West
DCI Banks
TV • 2011
Maggie Forrest
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Janet McCardle
W1A
TV • 2014
Tracey Pritchard
The Casual Vacancy
TV • 2015
Tess Wall
The Change
TV • 2023
Carmel
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV • 2020
Lorna
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
TV • 2010
Angela
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
TV • 2016
Strike
TV • 2017
Leonora Quine
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
TV • 2022
Anne Darwin
The Witness for the Prosecution
TV • 2016
Janet McIntyre
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
TV • 2024
Jo Hamilton
Tipping the Velvet
TV • 2002
Alice Astley
A Very English Scandal
TV • 2018
Marion Thorpe
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
CS Linda Grace
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Imogen Stroud
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
May
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Patricia Lawrence
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
Sherwood
TV • 2022
Ann Branson
Wolf Hall
TV • 2015
Alice More
Hang Ups
TV • 2018
Alison Jones
The Escape Artist
TV • 2013
Eileen Morris
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV • 1971
Mrs. Dorman