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
Complete Filmography
The Jubilee of '77: Pomp, Pageantry & Parties
2025
as Self (Narrator)
Documentary looking back at Elizabeth II's memorable Silver Jubilee, when large-scale parties and parades were held across the Commonwealth. The celeb...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
2024
as Mrs. Dorman
Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses ...

This Time Next Year
2024
as Connie
Minnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — ...

Typist Artist Pirate King
2023
as Audrey Amiss
In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan) persuades her psychiatric nurse, Sandra Panza (Kelly Macdonald)...

A Woman Walks Into A Bank
2022
as Narrator
A Woman Walks into a Bank is about a young woman’s journey from normality to extremism and back again. The film is told through increasingly elaborate...

Empire of Light
2022
as Rosemary Bates
The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England...

My Name Is Leon
2022
as Maureen
Leon, a mixed-race boy, and Jake, his white baby brother, are separated after their mother has a breakdown. Leon is determined to find him and gets un...

Cyrano
2021
as Marie
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, conv...

The Dig
2021
as May Brown
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the ec...

Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020
as Sue
Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new ...

Rialto
2020
as Claire
Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggl...

Official Secrets
2019
as Fiona Bygate
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint U...

National Theatre Live: All About Eve
2019
as Karen Richards
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, be...

Fern
2017
as Woman
A woman loses her husband and finds a potted plant.

The Witness for the Prosecution
2016
The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Chris...

Eye in the Sky
2015
as Angela Northman
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bom...

The Falling
2015
as Miss Martha Alvaro
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they att...

Pride
2014
as Marion
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one p...

Out of Darkness
2013
A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
as Angela
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to ...

Kick-Ass 2
2013
as Tommy's Mum
After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these a...

Complicit
2013
as Judith
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or ...

Sightseers
2012
as Janice
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

Meconium
2011
as Kel (voice)
Owain's girlfriend Lorna has gone into labour unexpectedly. The baby is stuck in its sac and Owain's the only one who can do anything about it. Has he...

The Arbor
2010
as Ann Hamilton
The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 1...
Excluded
2010
Ian, a newly qualified teacher, comes up against Mark, a troubled and disruptive pupil who teachers want to see excluded from school. Against the odds...

Never Let Me Go
2010
as Nurse
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come...

Within the Whirlwind
2009
as Pitkowskaya
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everythi...

U Be Dead
2009
as Maria Marchese
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on ...

Occupation
2009
as Nicky Swift
Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.

King Lear
2008
as Regan
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

The History of Mr Polly
2007
When Alfred Polly fails to find fulfilment as a shop keeper, he leaves his wife and sets out on the open road to see where freedom leads.

Wallis & Edward
2005
as Elizabeth
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...

Guernsey
2005
as Claire
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.

She Stoops to Conquer
2003
as Miss Kate Hardcastle
Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy of manners tells of the clever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house. An ambitious step-m...

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as Miss Barnes
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

The Gift
1998
as Jo
When housewife Lynn learns of her terminal cancer she decides that her daughter Amy will not be left with the same sad legacy that she herself was lef...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996
as Hermia
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which un...

Book Club
N/A
as Jane
The first meeting of a new community book club is thrown off-track when an overly-zealous attendee tries to convince the group to read his favourite b...