Acting · Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Born March 15, 1969
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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as Connie
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as Jo Hamilton
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as Carmel
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as Ann Branson
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as Sue
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as Lorna
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as Claire
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as Fiona Bygate
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as Karen Richards
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as Alison Jones
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as Marion Thorpe
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as Woman
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as Leonora Quine
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2016
as Janet McIntyre
TVNeil Gaiman's Likely Stories
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as Dr Marshall
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as Angela Northman
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as Miss Martha Alvaro
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as Tess Wall
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as Alice More
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as Marion
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as Tracey Pritchard
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as May
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as Eileen Morris
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as Angela
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as Tommy's Mum
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as Judith
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as Janice
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2011
as Janet McCardle
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as Patricia Lawrence
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as Kel (voice)
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as Maggie Forrest
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as Rose West
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as Ann Hamilton
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as Amanda
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as Nurse
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as Pitkowskaya
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as Maria Marchese
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as Nicky Swift
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as Nicky Swift
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as Regan
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as Elizabeth
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as Claire
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as Miss Kate Hardcastle
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as Alice Astley
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as Miss Barnes
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as Jo
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as Imogen Stroud
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as Hermia
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1989
as Miss Gilchrist / Cora Gallaccio
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1971
as Mrs. Dorman
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as Jane
MovieElsinore
