Monica Dolan
Born
March 15, 1969 (56 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
Self (Narrator)
2025
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
Mrs. Dorman
2024
This Time Next Year
Connie
2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Jo Hamilton · (4 episodes)
2024
Typist Artist Pirate King
Audrey Amiss
2023
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
Anne Darwin · (4 episodes)
2022
The Dig
May Brown
2021
Official Secrets
Fiona Bygate
2019
Meconium
Kel (voice)
2011
Book Club
Jane
Once Removed
May
The Change
Carmel · (7 episodes)
2023
A Woman Walks Into A Bank
Narrator
2022
Empire of Light
Rosemary Bates
2022
Sherwood
Ann Branson · (6 episodes)
2022
My Name Is Leon
Maureen
2022
Cyrano
Marie
2021
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Sue
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Lorna · (1 episode)
2020
Rialto
Claire
2020
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Karen Richards
2019
Hang Ups
Alison Jones · (2 episodes)
2018
A Very English Scandal
Marion Thorpe · (3 episodes)
2018
Fern
Woman
2017
Strike
Leonora Quine · (2 episodes)
2017
The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
The Witness for the Prosecution
Janet McIntyre · (2 episodes)
2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
(4 episodes)
2016
Eye in the Sky
Angela Northman
2015
The Falling
Miss Martha Alvaro
2015
The Casual Vacancy
Tess Wall · (3 episodes)
2015
Wolf Hall
Alice More · (2 episodes)
2015
Pride
Marion
2014
W1A
Tracey Pritchard · (14 episodes)
2014
Inside No. 9
May · (1 episode)
2014
The Escape Artist
Eileen Morris · (2 episodes)
2013
Out of Darkness
2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Angela
2013
Kick-Ass 2
Tommy's Mum
2013
Complicit
Judith
2013
Sightseers
Janice
2012
Black Mirror
Janet McCardle · (1 episode)
2011
Black Mirror
CS Linda Grace · (1 episode)
2011
Death in Paradise
Patricia Lawrence · (1 episode)
2011
DCI Banks
Maggie Forrest · (1 episode)
2011
Appropriate Adult
Rose West · (2 episodes)
2011
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Angela · (2 episodes)
2010
The Arbor
Ann Hamilton
2010
Excluded
2010
Never Let Me Go
Nurse
2010
Within the Whirlwind
Pitkowskaya
2009
U Be Dead
Maria Marchese
2009
Occupation
Nicky Swift · (3 episodes)
2009
Occupation
Nicky Swift
2009
King Lear
Regan
2008
The History of Mr Polly
2007
Wallis & Edward
Elizabeth
2005
Guernsey
Claire
2005
She Stoops to Conquer
Miss Kate Hardcastle
2003
Tipping the Velvet
Alice Astley · (1 episode)
2002
Topsy-Turvy
Miss Barnes
1999
The Gift
Jo
1998
Midsomer Murders
Imogen Stroud · (1 episode)
1997
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hermia
1996
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio · (1 episode)
1989
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Mrs. Dorman · (1 episode)
1971