Monica Dolan
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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.
Known for
Credits
Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
as Tommy's Mum
Official Secrets (2019)
as Fiona Bygate
Pride (2014)
as Marion
Never Let Me Go (2010)
as Nurse
Eye in the Sky (2015)
as Angela Northman
The Dig (2021)
as May Brown
Empire of Light (2022)
as Rosemary Bates
King Lear (2008)
as Regan
Cyrano (2021)
as Marie
Guernsey (2005)
as Claire
Elsinore (—)
Actor
Sightseers (2012)
as Janice
The Falling (2015)
as Miss Martha Alvaro
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Hermia
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
as Miss Barnes
Fern (2017)
as Woman
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
as Angela
Wallis & Edward (2005)
as Elizabeth
This Time Next Year (2024)
as Connie
The Arbor (2010)
as Ann Hamilton
Book Club (—)
as Jane
The History of Mr Polly (2007)
Actor
The Lost Children of Tuam (2026)
as Catherine Corless
Days of the Bagnold Summer (2020)
as Sue
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
as Pitkowskaya
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties (2025)
as Self (Narrator)
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone (2024)
as Mrs. Dorman
Typist Artist Pirate King (2023)
as Audrey Amiss
U Be Dead (2009)
as Maria Marchese
My Name Is Leon (2022)
as Maureen
National Theatre Live: All About Eve (2019)
as Karen Richards
Complicit (2013)
as Judith
Rialto (2020)
as Claire
She Stoops to Conquer (2003)
as Miss Kate Hardcastle
Occupation (2009)
as Nicky Swift
A Woman Walks Into A Bank (2022)
as Narrator
Excluded (2010)
as Amanda
The Gift (1998)
as Jo
Meconium (2011)
as Kel (voice)
Out of Darkness (2013)
Actor