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.
65 acting credits
Acting · 65
Midsomer Murders
1997
Death in Paradise
2011
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Black Mirror
2011
Inside No. 9
2014
Strike
2017
Wolf Hall
2015
DCI Banks
2011
Sherwood
2022
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Kick-Ass 2
2013
W1A
2014
The Escape Artist
2013
Tipping the Velvet
2002
A Very English Scandal
2018
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024
The Casual Vacancy
2015
The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
Never Let Me Go
2010
Eye in the Sky
2015
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
2022
Official Secrets
2019
The Change
2023
Hang Ups
2018
The Dig
2021
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Pride
2014
Topsy-Turvy
1999
Occupation
2009
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016
Empire of Light
2022
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
Appropriate Adult
2011
Cyrano
2021
Sightseers
2012
The Falling
2015
Within the Whirlwind
2009
The Arbor
2010
Wallis & Edward
2005
This Time Next Year
2024
King Lear
2008
Complicit
2013
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
Rialto
2020
Typist Artist Pirate King
2023
U Be Dead
2009
Occupation
2009
Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020
The Gift
1998
Elsinore
—
The History of Mr Polly
2007
Guernsey
2005
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996
Meconium
2011
The Lost Children of Tuam
—
A Woman Walks Into A Bank
2022
She Stoops to Conquer
2003
Excluded
2010
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
2025
Book Club
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My Name Is Leon
2022
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024
Fern
2017
Out of Darkness
2013