Monica Dolan

Actor Mar 15 (age 57) Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK 1971–2025 (54 year career)

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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 Gilch…

Known For

Film

Kick-Ass 2

Tommy's Mum

Film

Pride

Marion

Film

Never Let Me Go

Nurse

Film

Eye in the Sky

Angela Northman

Film

Official Secrets

Fiona Bygate

Film

The Dig

May Brown

Film

Empire of Light

Rosemary Bates

Film

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Angela

Filmography

Acting (68)

Movies (40)

The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties

2025

as Self (Narrator)

This Time Next Year

2024

as Connie

6.0

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

2024

as Mrs. Dorman

Typist Artist Pirate King

2023

as Audrey Amiss

6.8

A Woman Walks Into A Bank

2022

as Narrator

Empire of Light

as Rosemary Bates

My Name Is Leon

as Maureen

The Dig

as May Brown

Cyrano

as Marie

Rialto

as Claire

Days of the Bagnold Summer

as Sue

Official Secrets

as Fiona Bygate

National Theatre Live: All About Eve

as Karen Richards

Fern

as Woman

Eye in the Sky

as Angela Northman

The Falling

as Miss Martha Alvaro

Pride

as Marion

Kick-Ass 2

as Tommy's Mum

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

as Angela

Complicit

as Judith

Out of Darkness

Sightseers

as Janice

Meconium

as Kel (voice)

Never Let Me Go

as Nurse

The Arbor

as Ann Hamilton

Excluded

Occupation

as Nicky Swift

U Be Dead

as Maria Marchese

Within the Whirlwind

as Pitkowskaya

King Lear

as Regan

The History of Mr Polly

Guernsey

as Claire

Wallis & Edward

as Elizabeth

She Stoops to Conquer

2003

as Miss Kate Hardcastle

Topsy-Turvy

as Miss Barnes

The Gift

as Jo

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1996

as Hermia

5.6

Book Club

as Jane

Elsinore

The Lost Children of Tuam

as Catherine Corless

Television (28)

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

as Jo Hamilton

The Change

as Carmel

The Change

as Carmel

Sherwood

as Ann Branson

The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

2022

as Anne Darwin

7.0

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

2020

as Lorna

7.6

A Very English Scandal

as Marion Thorpe

Hang Ups

as Alison Jones

Strike

as Leonora Quine

The Witness for the Prosecution

2016

as Janet McIntyre

6.9

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

Wolf Hall

as Alice More

The Casual Vacancy

as Tess Wall

Inside No. 9

as May

W1A

as Tracey Pritchard

W1A

as Tracey Pritchard

The Escape Artist

as Eileen Morris

Death in Paradise

as Patricia Lawrence

Black Mirror

as CS Linda Grace

DCI Banks

as Maggie Forrest

Appropriate Adult

as Rose West

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

2010

as Angela

7.3

Occupation

2009

as Nicky Swift

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Mrs. Dorman

Tipping the Velvet

as Alice Astley

Midsomer Murders

as Imogen Stroud

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio

8.2

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

as Mrs. Dorman

7.4