Monica Dolan
Acting
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.
TV Shows(25)
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Jo Hamilton
2024
The Change
Carmel
2023
Sherwood
Ann Branson
2022
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
Anne Darwin
2022
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Lorna
2020
Hang Ups
Alison Jones
2018
A Very English Scandal
Marion Thorpe
2018
Strike
Leonora Quine
2017
The Witness for the Prosecution
Janet McIntyre
2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016
The Casual Vacancy
Tess Wall
2015
Wolf Hall
Alice More
2015
W1A
Tracey Pritchard
2014
Inside No. 9
May
2014
The Escape Artist
Eileen Morris
2013
Black Mirror
Janet McCardle
2011
Death in Paradise
Patricia Lawrence
2011
DCI Banks
Maggie Forrest
2011
Appropriate Adult
Rose West
2011
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
Angela
2010
Occupation
Nicky Swift
2009
Tipping the Velvet
Alice Astley
2002
Midsomer Murders
Imogen Stroud
1997
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
1989
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Mrs. Dorman
1971
Movies(40)
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
Typist Artist Pirate King
Audrey Amiss
2023
A Woman Walks Into A Bank
Narrator
2022
Empire of Light
Rosemary Bates
2022
My Name Is Leon
Maureen
2022
Cyrano
Marie
2021
The Dig
May Brown
2021
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Sue
2020
Rialto
Claire
2020
Official Secrets
Fiona Bygate
2019
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Karen Richards
2019
Fern
Woman
2017
Eye in the Sky
Angela Northman
2015
The Falling
Miss Martha Alvaro
2015
Pride
Marion
2014
Out of Darkness
2013
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Angela
2013
Kick-Ass 2
Tommy's Mum
2013
Complicit
Judith
2013
Sightseers
Janice
2012
Meconium
Kel (voice)
2011
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
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
Topsy-Turvy
Miss Barnes
1999
The Gift
Jo
1998
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hermia
1996
Book Club
Jane
The Lost Children of Tuam
Catherine Corless
Elsinore