Monica Dolan | |
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Born | Monica Margaret Dolan 15 March 1969 Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Alma mater | Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1992–present |
Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress |
Monica Margaret Dolan (born 15 March 1969) is an English actress. [1] She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011).
Dolan was born in Middlesbrough to Irish parents, and raised in Woking with three older siblings. [2] She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. [3]
Her credits include Agatha Christie's Poirot , Dalziel and Pascoe , Tipping the Velvet (with Rachael Stirling) and Judge John Deed . She also starred in ITV drama U Be Dead . [4] [5] [6] [7]
Her stage appearances include Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer , [8] Regan in King Lear [9] and Masha in The Seagull , [10] the latter two with Ian McKellen. [11]
Dolan played British serial killer Rosemary West in the ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, receiving critical acclaim and a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. [12] [13]
On stage, she starred as Loretta in Chalet Lines, written by Lee Mattinson, at the Bush Theatre. [14] In 2013, she portrayed twin sisters Meg and Mave Carter in the BBC TV series Call the Midwife . She appeared in W1A (a three-series follow-up to BBC2's BAFTA-winning comedy series Twenty Twelve ), as Senior Communications Officer Tracey Pritchard. [15]
In 2016, Dolan appeared as Janet McIntyre in the BBC two-part drama The Witness for the Prosecution , an Agatha Christie play adapted for television by Sarah Phelps. [16]
In 2017, she made guest appearances in Catastrophe , Death in Paradise and Strike , whilst also writing and starring in her debut one-woman play, The B*easts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play went on to win an Edinburgh Stage Award. [17] [18]
In 2018, Dolan made a guest appearance in an episode of the fourth series of Inside No 9 . Later that year, she portrayed Marion Thorpe in the critically acclaimed miniseries A Very English Scandal , receiving her second BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. [19] [20] The B*easts also transferred for a limited London run at the Bush Theatre. [21]
In 2019, she portrayed Karen Richards in the stage production of All About Eve for which she received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress. [22]
June 2020 saw her appearing in the remade television series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads on BBC One. In one of two newly-written episodes, Dolan performed a monologue in "The Shrine". This was one of the episodes staged at London's Bridge Theatre in September 2020, with Dolan reprising her role. [23]
In 2021, she appeared in The Dig , playing May Brown, wife of the archaeologist and astronomer Basil Brown, who discovered the Anglo-Saxon treasure at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk. [24]
In 2022, Dolan starred as Sister Aloysius in Doubt: A Parable at the Chichester Festival Theatre, receiving critical acclaim. [25] She also appeared alongside Eddie Marsan in the ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin. [26] [27] She has appeared in two episodes of Black Mirror : "Smithereens", from Series 5, and, more recently, "Loch Henry", from Series 6. [28]
In 2023, she played Carmel in six-part Channel 4 comedy drama The Change. She also starred in Typist Artist Pirate King , directed by Carol Morley, as British artist Audrey Amiss. The film had its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in March, and was released in October 2023, to positive reviews. [29] In January 2024, she played the role of subpostmistress Jo Hamilton in the ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office .
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1996 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hermia | |
1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Miss Barnes | |
2005 | Guernsey | Claire | |
2007 | Hope | Mother | Short film |
2009 | Stalin: Reign of Terror | Pitkovskaya | |
2010 | The Arbor | Ann Hamilton | |
Never Let Me Go | Nurse | ||
2011 | Pride | Marion Cooper | |
2011 | Meconium | Kel | Short film |
2012 | Sightseers | Janice | |
2013 | Bed Trick | Beatrice | Short film |
Out of Darkness | Short film | ||
Vice of Mind | Mother | Short film | |
Kick-Ass 2 | Tommy's Mum | ||
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Angela Ashbourne | ||
2014 | Pride | Marion Cooper | |
The Falling | Miss Martha Alvaro | ||
Twelve | Jodie | Short film | |
2015 | Eye in the Sky | Angela Northman | |
2017 | Fern | Woman | Short film |
2018 | God's Own County | Jackie | Short film |
2019 | Official Secrets | Fiona Bygate | |
National Theatre Live: All About Eve | Karen Richards | ||
Days of the Bagnold Summer | Sue Bagnold | ||
Rialto | Claire | ||
2021 | The Dig | May Brown | |
Cyrano | Marie | ||
2022 | Empire of Light | Rosemary Bates | |
Typist Artist Pirate King | Audrey Amiss | ||
TBA | This Time Next Year | Connie | Post-production |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993―1997 | The Bill | Mrs. Heaton/Ruth Bell | 2 episodes |
1998 | The Gift | Jo | Television film |
2001 | Judge John Deed | Natalie Abbott | Episode: "Rough Justice" |
2002 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Megan Lowry | Episode: "The Unwanted" |
Tipping the Velvet | Alice Astley | Episode: "Episode #1.2" | |
2003 | She Stoops to Conquer | Miss Kate Hardcastle | Video |
2005 | Wallis & Edward | Elizabeth | Television film |
2006 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Cora Gallaccio/Miss Gilchrist | Episode: "After the Funeral" |
The Commander: Blacklight | DC Pamela Hayes | Television film | |
2007 | The History of Mr. Polly | Annie Larkins | Television film |
2008 | Great Performances | Regan | Episode: "King Lear" |
2009 | Occupation | Nicky Swift | 3 episodes |
U Be Dead | Maria Marchese | Television film | |
Midsomer Murders | Imogen Stroud | Episode: "The Great and the Good" | |
2010 | Excluded | Amanda | Television film |
DCI Banks: Aftermath | Maggie Forrest | 2 episodes | |
2011 | Appropriate Adult | Rosemary West | 2 episodes BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress |
2012 | Coming Up | Lisa | Episode: "Spoof or Die" |
2013 | Call the Midwife | Mave/Meg Carter | Episode: "Episode #2.3" |
Complicit | Judith | Television film | |
The Escape Artist | Eileen Morris | 2 episodes | |
2014 | Pride | Marion Cooper | |
The Falling | Miss Alvaro | ||
2014–2020 | W1A | Tracey Pritchard | 15 episodes |
2015 | Wolf Hall | Alice More | |
The Casual Vacancy | Tessa Wall | 3 episodes | |
2016 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Angela | 2 episodes |
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories | Various | 4 episodes | |
The Witness for the Prosecution | Janet McIntyre | 2 episodes | |
2017 | Death in Paradise | Patricia Lawrence | Episode: "The Secret of the Flame Tree" |
Catastrophe | Polly | Episode: "Episode #3.2" | |
Strike | Leonora Quine | 2 episodes | |
2018 | Inside No. 9 | May | Episode: "Once Removed" |
A Very English Scandal | Marion Thorpe | 2 episodes Nominated — BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
Vanity Fair | Mrs. Peggy O'Dowd | 4 episodes | |
Hang Ups | Alison Jones | 2 episodes | |
2019 | Urban Myths | Catherine Dickens | Episode: "Bleak House Guest" |
2019–2023 | Black Mirror | CS Linda Grace Janet McCardle | 2 episodes: "Smithereens" and "Loch Henry" |
2020 | Unprecedented | Kat | Episode: "Episode #1.4" |
Talking Heads | Lorna | Episode: "The Shrine" | |
2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | Anne Darwin | 4 episodes |
My Name is Leon | Maureen | Television film | |
2023 | The Change | Carmel | 4 episodes |
2024 | Mr Bates vs The Post Office | Jo Hamilton | 4 episodes [30] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
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2012 | British Academy Television Award | Best Supporting Actress | Appropriate Adult | Won | [32] |
2019 | British Academy Television Award | Best Supporting Actress | A Very English Scandal | Nominated | [33] |
2019 | Olivier Award | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | All About Eve | Won | [34] |
2023 | Royal Television Society Award | Actor - Female | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | Nominated | [35] |
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