Monica Dolan


Monica Margaret Dolan is a British actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult.

Career

Born in Middlesbrough and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Dolan's credits include Agatha Christie's Poirot, Dalziel and Pascoe, Tipping the Velvet and Judge John Deed and starred in ITV drama U Be Dead.
Her stage appearances include She Stoops to Conquer, King Lear and The Seagull, the latter two with Ian McKellen.
She starred as British serial killer Rosemary West in controversial ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, receiving critical acclaim and a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress,
Dolan starred as Loretta in Chalet Lines, written by Lee Mattinson, at the Bush Theatre. In 2013, she portrayed twin sisters Meg and Maeve Carter in
Call the Midwife. More recently, she appeared in W1A, as Senior Communications Officer Tracey Pritchard.
in 2016 she 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.
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 hit 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.

Filmography