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Monica Dolan. Actress: Eye in the Sky. 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.
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- Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
- What’s The Leon Story?
- It’S Set in Birmingham – How Did You Cope with The accent?
- Which Is The Hardest and The Easiest Accent You’Ve Ever Had to Learn?
- Does My Name Is Leon Tackle The Subject of Racism?
- What Is Maureen like?
- You Portrayed Serial Killer Rosemary West. Do You Mind Playing People Like That?
- How Did It Feel to Win The BAFTA For That Performance?
- Do You Manage to Switch Off After Harrowing Scenes?
- Was Lockdown A Difficult time?
- What Age Were You When You Decided You Wanted to Act?
It’s about a young boy of colour whose brother and mother are white – his father isn’t around. His mother is ill and he ends up being taken to a foster carer, my character Maureen. He’s been brought up by white people and it’s not until Maureen gets ill that things change. He goes off and finds another community at an allotment and learns more abou...
I listened to a Newsnight interview with White Dee from Benefits Street every day before I went on set. Sometimes it’s good to have a phrase that kicks you into the accent. Mine was, ‘You cannot droive up and down that road on a Saturdoy or Sundoy,’ which was something White Dee said. I enjoyed it – I like doing accents.
It depends how long you’ve got to learn them. I played Anne Darwin in The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe. She was from Hartlepool and I had three weeks. That was tricky. My parents are Irish so I feel my Irish accent is fairly authentic and I love doing the American accent.
What Leon learns about himself is probably a bit uncomfortable for the white people bringing him up. They don’t want to admit the differences and the challenges he’ll face. Maureen just wants to protect him from what he’s inevitably got to deal with, because of the way the world treats people because of the colour of their skin.
She absolutely loves children and has a wonderful way with them. She really knows how to give them a stable environment. She’s lovely. I felt very lucky because often I’m asked to play quite troubled characters, to put it mildly!
It doesn’t worry me. Obviously I want people to think that I’m a good actress but I’m not concerned with what people think of the characters I play. I wouldn’t want to play Rosemary West and everyone come away going, ‘Oh, she’s actually really nice.’ Because then I would have done it wrong.
It was the most extraordinary moment but I had mixed feelings. What was most shocking with some of the people who were killed was that no one even noticed they were missing. I found it upsetting to think that anyone could be cared for that little that nobody would even notice if you weren’t there.
I played a woman who stalked a doctor for four years and I’d come home feeling a bit buzzy. If I had a day off the next day, I’d lie face down in the park for the day! With Anne Darwin there was a lot of crying, so you have to remember to drink a lot of water so you don’t get dehydrated.
It was really hard. I lost my brother Paul [to Covid] right at the beginning of it and I wasn’t able to see him because of lockdown. The last I saw of him was on my mum’s birthday on March 3 and he died on Good Friday. Work-wise I had an awful lot back-to-back so, actually, with regard to trying to come to terms with everything that happened person...
I was in middle school. My brother played Goliath in a musical. I thought it was fantastic. I then appeared in a school assembly. It wasn’t a very big part but my few lines as a librarian up a ladder got a laugh. I remember being very delighted with that feeling. I had the bug.
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Aug 16, 2017 · Monica Dolan's one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show The B*easts is a dark look at child sexualisation and the pornification of culture.
Apr 17, 2022 · Based on the first episode, this is a retelling particularly sympathetic to Anne, played by Monica Dolan. It is she who narrates the story of how her proud, reckless, deluded husband concluded...
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Apr 17, 2022 · Dolan won a Bafta for her frightening portrayal of the woman who collaborated with her husband Fred in the torture and murder of young women and children.
