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Actor
Monica Dolan
- Born March 15, 1969 in 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.
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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.
Known for
Kick-Ass 22013
Black Mirror2011
Never Let Me Go2010
Eye in the Sky2015
Pride2014
The Dig2021
Official Secrets2019
Empire of Light2022
Filmography
- TBABook ClubFilmJane
- 2026The Lost Children of TuamFilmCatherine Corless
- 2026ElsinoreFilmLinda
- 2026Onwards and SidewaysFilmLiz Evans
- 2025The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & PartiesFilmSelf (Narrator)
- 2024Mr Bates vs The Post OfficeSeriesJo Hamilton
- 2024This Time Next YearFilmConnie
- 2024Smoggie QueensSeriesPaula
- 2024A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of StoneFilmMrs. Dorman
- 2023The ChangeSeriesCarmel
- 2023Typist Artist Pirate KingFilmAudrey Amiss
- 2022Empire of LightFilmRosemary Bates
- 2022SherwoodSeriesAnn Branson
- 2022The Thief, His Wife and the CanoeSeriesAnne Darwin
- 2022My Name Is LeonFilmMaureen
- 2022A Woman Walks Into A BankFilmNarrator
- 2021The DigFilmMay Brown
- 2021CyranoFilmMarie
- 2020Days of the Bagnold SummerFilmSue
- 2020RialtoFilmClaire
- 2020Alan Bennett's Talking HeadsSeriesLorna
- 2019Official SecretsFilmFiona Bygate
- 2019National Theatre Live: All About EveFilmKaren Richards
- 2018A Very English ScandalSeriesMarion Thorpe
- 2018Hang UpsSeriesAlison Jones
- 2017StrikeSeriesLeonora Quine
- 2017FernFilmWoman
- 2016The Witness for the ProsecutionSeriesJanet McIntyre
- 2016Neil Gaiman's Likely StoriesSeriesDr Marshall, Café Manager, Nora, Miranda Walker
- 2015Eye in the SkyFilmAngela Northman
- 2015The FallingFilmMiss Martha Alvaro
- 2015Wolf HallSeriesAlice More
- 2015The Casual VacancySeriesTess Wall
- 2014PrideFilmMarion
- 2014Inside No. 9SeriesMay
- 2014W1ASeriesTracey Pritchard
- 2013Kick-Ass 2FilmTommy's Mum
- 2013Alan Partridge: Alpha PapaFilmAngela
- 2013The Escape ArtistSeriesEileen Morris
- 2013ComplicitFilmJudith
- 2013Out of DarknessFilm
- 2012SightseersFilmJanice
- 2011Black MirrorSeriesJanet McCardle, CS Linda Grace
- 2011Death in ParadiseSeriesPatricia Lawrence
- 2011DCI BanksSeriesMaggie Forrest
- 2011Appropriate AdultSeriesRose West
- 2011MeconiumFilmKel (voice)
- 2010Never Let Me GoFilmNurse
- 2010The ArborFilmAnn Hamilton
- 2010Mid Morning Matters with Alan PartridgeSeriesAngela
- 2010ExcludedFilmAmanda
- 2009Within the WhirlwindFilmPitkowskaya
- 2009OccupationFilmNicky Swift
- 2009U Be DeadFilmMaria Marchese
- 2009OccupationSeriesNicky Swift
- 2008King LearFilmRegan
- 2007The History of Mr PollyFilm
- 2005GuernseyFilmClaire
- 2005Wallis & EdwardFilmElizabeth
- 2003She Stoops to ConquerFilmMiss Kate Hardcastle
- 2002Tipping the VelvetSeriesAlice Astley
- 1999Topsy-TurvyFilmMiss Barnes
- 1998The GiftFilmJo
- 1997Midsomer MurdersSeriesImogen Stroud
- 1996Dalziel and PascoeSeriesMegan Lowry
- 1996A Midsummer Night's DreamFilmHermia
- 1989Agatha Christie's PoirotSeriesMiss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
- 1971A Ghost Story for ChristmasSeriesMrs. Dorman