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