Acting
Monica Dolan
EN, NL cinema · 41 credits
Born
15 March 1969 (age 57)
Birthplace
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as Моника Долан · مونیکا دولان
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
Filmography
Book Club
as Jane
The Lost Children of Tuam
as Catherine Corless
Elsinore
as Linda
Onwards and Sideways
as Liz Evans
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
2025
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
as Self (Narrator)
This Time Next Year
as Connie
A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone
as Mrs. Dorman
Typist Artist Pirate King
as Audrey Amiss
Empire of Light
as Rosemary Bates
My Name Is Leon
as Maureen
A Woman Walks Into A Bank
as Narrator
Cyrano
as Marie
The Dig
as May Brown
Rialto
as Claire
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
as Karen Richards
Official Secrets
as Fiona Bygate
Fern
as Woman
The Falling
as Miss Martha Alvaro
Eye in the Sky
as Angela Northman
Pride
as Marion
Kick-Ass 2
as Tommy's Mum
Complicit
as Judith
Sightseers
as Janice
Meconium
as Kel (voice)
The Arbor
as Ann Hamilton
Excluded
2010
Excluded
as Amanda
Never Let Me Go
as Nurse
Occupation
as Nicky Swift
Within the Whirlwind
as Pitkowskaya
U Be Dead
as Maria Marchese
King Lear
as Regan
Guernsey
as Claire
Wallis & Edward
as Elizabeth
She Stoops to Conquer
as Miss Kate Hardcastle
Topsy-Turvy
as Miss Barnes
The Gift
as Jo
