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