
Acting
Born March 15, 1969 · 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.
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
2025

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024

This Time Next Year
2024

Typist Artist Pirate King
2023

A Woman Walks Into A Bank
2022

Empire of Light
2022

My Name Is Leon
2022

Cyrano
2021

The Dig
2021

Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020

Rialto
2020

Official Secrets
2019

National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019

Fern
2017

Eye in the Sky
2015

The Falling
2015

Pride
2014

Out of Darkness
2013

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013

Kick-Ass 2
2013

Complicit
2013

Sightseers
2012

Meconium
2011

The Arbor
2010
Excluded
2010

Never Let Me Go
2010

Within the Whirlwind
2009

U Be Dead
2009

Occupation
2009

King Lear
2008

The History of Mr Polly
2007

Wallis & Edward
2005

Guernsey
2005

She Stoops to Conquer
2003

Topsy-Turvy
1999

The Gift
1998

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996