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Monica Dolan

Acting Born Mar 15, 1969 Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK 24 credits

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.

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Full filmography

  • Midsomer Murders (1997) as Imogen Stroud
  • Death in Paradise (2011) as Patricia Lawrence
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
  • Black Mirror (2011) as Janet McCardle
  • Black Mirror (2011) as CS Linda Grace
  • Inside No. 9 (2014) as May
  • Strike (2017) as Leonora Quine
  • Wolf Hall (2015) as Alice More
  • DCI Banks (2011) as Maggie Forrest
  • Sherwood (2022) as Ann Branson
  • Kick-Ass 2 (2013) as Tommy's Mum
  • A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971) as Mrs. Dorman
  • W1A (2014) as Tracey Pritchard
  • Never Let Me Go (2010) as Nurse
  • Tipping the Velvet (2002) as Alice Astley
  • Pride (2014) as Marion
  • A Very English Scandal (2018) as Marion Thorpe
  • Smoggie Queens (2024) as Paula
  • Eye in the Sky (2015) as Angela Northman
  • The Dig (2021) as May Brown
  • The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe (2022) as Anne Darwin
  • The Casual Vacancy (2015) as Tess Wall
  • The Escape Artist (2013) as Eileen Morris
  • Official Secrets (2019) as Fiona Bygate