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