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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
Character: Self (Narrator)
MOVIE • 2025

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
Character: Mrs. Dorman
MOVIE • 2024

This Time Next Year
Character: Connie
MOVIE • 2024

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Character: Jo Hamilton
TV • 2024

Typist Artist Pirate King
Character: Audrey Amiss
MOVIE • 2023

The Change
Character: Carmel
TV • 2023

A Woman Walks Into A Bank
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • 2022

Empire of Light
Character: Rosemary Bates
MOVIE • 2022

Sherwood
Character: Ann Branson
TV • 2022

My Name Is Leon
Character: Maureen
MOVIE • 2022

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
Character: Anne Darwin
TV • 2022

Cyrano
Character: Marie
MOVIE • 2021

The Dig
Character: May Brown
MOVIE • 2021

Days of the Bagnold Summer
Character: Sue
MOVIE • 2020

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Character: Lorna
TV • 2020

Rialto
Character: Claire
MOVIE • 2020

Official Secrets
Character: Fiona Bygate
MOVIE • 2019

National Theatre Live: All About Eve
Character: Karen Richards
MOVIE • 2019

Hang Ups
Character: Alison Jones
TV • 2018

A Very English Scandal
Character: Marion Thorpe
TV • 2018