Monica Dolan
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).
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Dolan in 2020 | |
| Born | Monica Margaret Dolan 15 March 1969 Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress |
Career
Dolan was born in Middlesbrough and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 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.[2][3][4][5]
Her stage appearances include She Stoops to Conquer,[6] King Lear[7] and The Seagull,[8] the latter two with Ian McKellen.
Dolan played British serial killer Rosemary West in the controversial ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, receiving critical acclaim and a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.[9][10]
On stage, she starred as Loretta in Chalet Lines, written by Lee Mattinson, at the Bush Theatre.[11] In 2013, she portrayed twin sisters Meg and Maeve 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.[12]
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.[13]
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 run went on to win an Edinburgh Stage Award.
In 2018, Dolan made a guest appearance in an episode of the fourth series of Inside No 9, followed by playing Marion Thorpe in the critically acclaimed miniseries A Very English Scandal. The B*easts also transferred for a limited London run at the Bush Theatre.
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.[14]
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.[15]
In 2021 Dolan was acclaimed for her Suffolk accent playing May the wife of Mr Basil Brown in The Dig who discovered the Anglo-Saxon treasure at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
In 2022 she appeared alongside Eddie Marsan in the ITV drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe as Anne Darwin.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-1997 | The Bill | Mrs. Heaton/Ruth Bell | 2 episodes |
| 1996 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hermia | |
| 1998 | The Gift | Jo | Television film |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy | Miss Barnes | |
| 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 | Guernsey | Claire | |
| 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 |
| Hope | Mother | Short film | |
| 2008 | Great Performances | Regan | Episode: "King Lear" |
| 2009 | Occupation | Nicky Swift | 3 episodes |
| Within the Whirlwind | Pitkowskaya | ||
| U Be Dead | Maria Marchese | Television film | |
| Midsomer Murders | Imogen Stroud | Episode: "The Great and the Good" | |
| 2010 | The Arbor | Ann Hamilton | |
| Never Let Me Go | Nurse | ||
| 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 |
| Meconium | Kel (voice) | Short film | |
| 2012 | Sightseers | Janice | |
| Spoof or Die | Lisa | Short film | |
| Coming Up | Lisa | Episode: "Spoof or Die" | |
| 2013 | Call the Midwife | Mave/Meg Carter | Episode: "Episode #2.3" |
| Complicit | Judith | Television film | |
| Bed Trick | Beatrice | Short film | |
| Kick-Ass 2 | Tommy's Mum | ||
| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Angela | ||
| Out of Darkness | Female | Short film | |
| Vice of Mind | Mother's Voice | Short film | |
| Twelve | Jodie | Short 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 | |
| Eye in the Sky | Angela North | ||
| 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 | |
| Fern | Woman | Short film | |
| 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 | |
| God's Own County[16][17] | Jackie | Pilot | |
| 2019 | Rialto | Claire | |
| Official Secrets | Fiona Bygate | ||
| National Theatre Live: All About Eve | Karen Richards | ||
| Black Mirror | CS Linda Grace | Episode: "Smithereens" | |
| Days of the Bagnold Summer | Sue | ||
| 2020 | Unprecedented | Kat | Episode: "Episode #1.4" |
| Talking Heads | Lorna | Episode: "The Shrine" | |
| 2021 | The Dig | May Brown | |
| Cyrano | Marie | ||
| 2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | Anne Darwin | |
| My Name is Leon | Maureen | ||
| Typist Artist Pirate King | Audrey Amiss | ||
| Empire of Light | Rosemary Bates | ||
| 2023 | The Change | Carmel | 4 episodes |
References
- ^ Holland, Peter (19 December 2005). Shakespeare Survey: Writing about Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. pp. 288–. ISBN 978-0-521-85074-2. from the original on 3 July 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
- ^ "The Weekend's TV: U Be Dead, Sun, ITV1/My Funniest Year: 2000, Channel 4" 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, independent.co.uk, 6 September 2010.
- ^ U Be Dead at IMDb
- ^ "TV review: U Be Dead and The Yorkshire Dales On Film" 11 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, guardian.co.uk, 5 September 2010.
- ^ "U Be Dead's Monica Dolan Discusses The Art of Stalking" 27 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, tv.com, 8 September 2010.
- ^ "Blogger Ian Foster's review of DVD of She Stoops to Conquer". from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ "King Lear" 30 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine, guardian.co.uk, 31 May 2007.
- ^ ""The Seagull, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company" (18 September 2007) Eunice Wong". from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
- ^ Appropriate Adult Wins Big at BAFTA TV Awards" 27 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, yahoo.com, 27 May 2012.
- ^ "Bafta Television Awards 2012: Fred West drama Appropriate Adult dominates" 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine, telegraph.co.uk, 27 May 2012.
- ^ "Chalet Lines, Bush Theatre, review" 17 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, telegraph.co.uk, 16 April 2012.
- ^ Taylor, Frances (24 January 2017). "W1A: First look at Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes in series three of the BBC comedy". Radio Times. from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- ^ "The Witness for the Prosecution: Episode 1 Credits". BBC Online. from the original on 31 December 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Actor Monica Dolan: Losing my brother to Covid-19 is part of a global story". The Guardian. 6 June 2020. from the original on 7 February 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ "Talking Heads Live | The Bridge Theatre". Bridge Theatre. from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "God's Own County". All 4. from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "God's Own County". YouTube. All 4. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
External links
- Monica Dolan at the British Film Institute
- Monica Dolan at IMDb