Monica Dolan
Known for: Acting
Born: March 15, 1969
Place of birth: Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
41 movies · 27 TV shows, newest first
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Elsinore
2026
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The Lost Children of Tuam
2026NR
Onwards and Sideways
2026NR
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
2025
4.0
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024
7.1
Smoggie Queens
2024
6.1
This Time Next Year
2024
7.9
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024
6.4
Typist Artist Pirate King
2023
7.1
The Change
2023
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A Woman Walks Into A Bank
2022
6.6
Empire of Light
2022
6.9
Sherwood
2022
3.7
My Name Is Leon
2022
7.0
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
2022
6.3
Cyrano
2021
6.8
The Dig
2021
6.1
Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020
7.6
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
6.2
Rialto
2020
7.2
Official Secrets
2019
8.5
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
6.4
Hang Ups
2018
7.1
A Very English Scandal
2018
6.0
Fern
2017
7.2
Strike
2017
7.0
The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
6.2
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016
7.0
Eye in the Sky
2015
5.1
The Falling
2015
6.2
The Casual Vacancy
2015
7.5
Wolf Hall
2015
7.7
Pride
2014
7.7
W1A
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
7.1
The Escape Artist
2013
8.0
Out of Darkness
2013
6.6
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
6.4
Kick-Ass 2
2013
5.1
Complicit
2013
6.3
Sightseers
2012
8.3
Black Mirror
2011
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
6.0
Meconium
2011
7.1
DCI Banks
2011
6.8
Appropriate Adult
2011
7.3
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
7.3
The Arbor
20106.2
Excluded
2010
6.9
Never Let Me Go
2010
5.0
Within the Whirlwind
2009
6.2
U Be Dead
2009
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Occupation
2009
7.8
Occupation
2009
6.7
King Lear
2008
6.7
The History of Mr Polly
2007
5.6
Wallis & Edward
2005
5.5
Guernsey
2005
7.0
She Stoops to Conquer
2003
6.9
Tipping the Velvet
2002
6.6
Topsy-Turvy
1999
7.0
The Gift
1998
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
5.9
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
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