Monica Dolan

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.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Death in Paradise

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Black Mirror

Black Mirror

Inside No. 9

Strike

Wolf Hall

All Movies (40)

• The Lost Children of Tuam2026 · as Catherine Corless
• The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties2025 · as Self (Narrator)
• A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone2024 · as Mrs. Dorman
• This Time Next Year2024 · as Connie
• Typist Artist Pirate King2023 · as Audrey Amiss
• A Woman Walks Into A Bank2022 · as Narrator
• Empire of Light2022 · as Rosemary Bates
• My Name Is Leon2022 · as Maureen
• Cyrano2021 · as Marie
• The Dig2021 · as May Brown
• Days of the Bagnold Summer2020 · as Sue
• Rialto2020 · as Claire
• Official Secrets2019 · as Fiona Bygate
• National Theatre Live: All About Eve2019 · as Karen Richards
• Fern2017 · as Woman
• Eye in the Sky2015 · as Angela Northman
• The Falling2015 · as Miss Martha Alvaro
• Pride2014 · as Marion
• Out of Darkness2013
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa2013 · as Angela
• Kick-Ass 22013 · as Tommy's Mum
• Complicit2013 · as Judith
• Sightseers2012 · as Janice
• Meconium2011 · as Kel (voice)
• The Arbor2010 · as Ann Hamilton
• Excluded2010 · as Amanda
• Never Let Me Go2010 · as Nurse
• Within the Whirlwind2009 · as Pitkowskaya
• U Be Dead2009 · as Maria Marchese
• Occupation2009 · as Nicky Swift
• King Lear2008 · as Regan
• The History of Mr Polly2007
• Wallis & Edward2005 · as Elizabeth
• Guernsey2005 · as Claire
• She Stoops to Conquer2003 · as Miss Kate Hardcastle
• Topsy-Turvy1999 · as Miss Barnes
• The Gift1998 · as Jo
• A Midsummer Night's Dream1996 · as Hermia
• Book Club— · as Jane
• Elsinore—

All TV Shows (30)

• Smoggie Queens2024 · as Paula
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office2024 · as Jo Hamilton
• The Change2023 · as Carmel
• Sherwood2022 · as Ann Branson
• The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe2022 · as Anne Darwin
• Alan Bennett's Talking Heads2020 · as Lorna
• Hang Ups2018 · as Alison Jones
• A Very English Scandal2018 · as Marion Thorpe
• Strike2017 · as Leonora Quine
• The Witness for the Prosecution2016 · as Janet McIntyre
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016 · as Dr Marshall
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016 · as Café Manager
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016 · as Nora
• Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories2016 · as Miranda Walker
• The Casual Vacancy2015 · as Tess Wall
• Wolf Hall2015 · as Alice More
• W1A2014 · as Tracey Pritchard
• Inside No. 92014 · as May
• The Escape Artist2013 · as Eileen Morris
• Black Mirror2011 · as Janet McCardle
• Black Mirror2011 · as CS Linda Grace
• Death in Paradise2011 · as Patricia Lawrence
• DCI Banks2011 · as Maggie Forrest
• Appropriate Adult2011 · as Rose West
• Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge2010 · as Angela
• Occupation2009 · as Nicky Swift
• Tipping the Velvet2002 · as Alice Astley
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Imogen Stroud
• Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
• A Ghost Story for Christmas1971 · as Mrs. Dorman