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