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