Monica Dolan

Monica Dolan

55 · Born: Mar 15, 1969

Personal Details

Born Mar 15, 1969 Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Relatives
  • Gabrielle (Sibling)

Biography

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.

Career

2024
Mr Bates vs. The Post Office
Mr Bates vs. The Post Office as Jo Hamilton
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2023
Typist Artist Pirate King
Typist Artist Pirate King as Audrey Amiss
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The Change
The Change as Carmel
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2022
Empire of Light
Empire of Light as Rosemary Bates
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My Name Is Leon
My Name Is Leon as Maureen
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The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin
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2021
The Dig
The Dig as May Brown
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Cyrano
Cyrano as Marie
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2020
Rialto
Rialto as Claire
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Days of the Bagnold Summer
Days of the Bagnold Summer as Sue
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2019
All About Eve
All About Eve as Karen Richards
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Black Mirror
Black Mirror as CS Linda Grace
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2018
A Very English Scandal
A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe
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Inside No. 9
Inside No. 9 as May
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2017
C.B. Strike
C.B. Strike as Leonora Quine
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Death in Paradise
Death in Paradise as Patricia Lawrence
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2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
The Witness for the Prosecution
The Witness for the Prosecution as Janet McIntyre
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2015
The Falling
The Falling as Miss Martha Alvaro
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Eye in the Sky
Eye in the Sky as Angela Northman
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The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy as Tess Wall
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2014
Pride
Pride as Marion Cooper
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W1A
W1A as Tracey Pritchard
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2013
Alan Partridge
Alan Partridge as Angela
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Complicit
Complicit as Judith
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Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness
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The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist as Eileen Morris
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2012
Sightseers
Sightseers as Janice
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2011
Meconium
Meconium as Kel (voice)
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Appropriate Adult
Appropriate Adult as Rose West
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2010
Excluded
Excluded
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The Arbor
The Arbor as Ann Hamilton
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2009
Within the Whirlwind
Within the Whirlwind as Pitkowskaya
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Occupation
Occupation as Nicky Swift
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Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders as Imogen Stroud
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2008
King Lear
King Lear as Regan
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2005
Wallis & Edward
Wallis & Edward as Elizabeth
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2003
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer as Miss Kate Hardcastle
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2002
Tipping the Velvet
Tipping the Velvet as Alice Astley
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1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
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