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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 10, 1958
Place of Birth:
County Cork, Ireland
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Fiona Shaw
Biography
Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson, 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
She won both the 1990 and 1994 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for roles in the plays Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Szechwan (1990), and Machinal (1994) and received a further three Olivier Award nominations for her roles in Mephisto (1986), Hedda Gabler (1992), and Happy Days (2008). She made her Broadway debut playing the title role in Medea (2002), for which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in the Colm Tóibín play The Testament of Mary (2013).
In film, she played Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010). Other notable film roles include My Left Foot (1989), Persuasion (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Tree of Life (2011), Colette (2018), Ammonite (2020), and Enola Holmes (2020).
Her television roles include Hedda Hopper in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999) and Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood (2011). She played Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22), for which she received the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her role as a counsellor in Fleabag (2019), she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. She starred in the BBC One series Baptiste (2021) and the Disney+ series Andor (2022).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Park Avenue | Kit |
| 2025 | Hot Milk | Rose Papastergiadis |
| 2025 | Echo Valley | Jessie Oliver |
| 2024 | IF | Grandmother |
| 2024 | That Christmas | Ms. Trapper (voice) |
| 2022 | Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2021 | Russia vs. the World | Narrator |
| 2020 | Ammonite | Elizabeth Philpot |
| 2020 | Enola Holmes | Miss Harrison |
| 2020 | Kindred | Margaret |
| 2019 | Out of Innocence | Catherine Flynn |
| 2019 | The Christmas Letter | Ms. Broom |
| 2018 | Colette | Sido |
| 2018 | Lizzie | Abby Borden |
| 2017 | The Hippopotamus | Anne Logan |
| 2016 | The White King | Kathrin Fitz |
| 2015 | Pixels | Prime Minister (uncredited) |
| 2014 | Great Poets: In Their Own Words | Self |
| 2013 | The English Teacher | Narrator |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self |
| 2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Grandmother |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Petunia Dursley |
| 2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Lady Gay Spanker |
| 2010 | We Believed | Emilie Ashurst |
| 2009 | Dorian Gray | Agatha |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Petunia Dursley |
| 2007 | Fracture | Judge Robinson |
| 2007 | Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | The Black Dahlia | Ramona Linscott |
| 2006 | Catch and Release | Mrs. Ellen Douglas |
| 2005 | Ebb and Flo | Narrator |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Petunia Dursley |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Petunia Dursley |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Petunia Dursley |
| 2001 | The Triumph of Love | Leontine |
| 2001 | Mind Games | Frances O'Neil |
| 2000 | RKO 281 | Hedda Hopper |
| 2000 | The Last September | Marda Norton |
| 1998 | The Butcher Boy | Mrs. Nugent |
| 1998 | The Avengers | Father |
| 1998 | Titanic Town | Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo) |
| 1997 | Richard II | Richard II |
| 1997 | Anna Karenina | Lydia |
| 1996 | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Reed |
| 1995 | Persuasion | Mrs. Croft |
| 1995 | The Waste Land | Herself |
| 1993 | Undercover Blues | Novacek |
| 1993 | Maria's Child | Pauline |
| 1993 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler |
| 1993 | Super Mario Bros. | Lena |
| 1991 | London Kills Me | Headley |
| 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Isabel |
| 1990 | 3 Men and a Little Lady | Miss Lomax |
| 1989 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Dr. Eileen Cole |
| 1985 | Love Song | Young Deirdre Walters |
| 1985 | Sacred Hearts | Sister Felicity |
| 1983 | Fireworks for Elspeth | Elspeth |
| Monstrous Beauty | Aphra Ben | |
| The Rising: 1916 | Countess Markievicz | |
| Ladies First | ||
| The Stalemate | ||
| Scotch Verdict |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Andor | Maarva Andor |
| 2022 | Bad Sisters | Angelica Collins |
| 2019 | Baptiste | Emma Chambers |
| 2018 | Killing Eve | Carolyn Martens |
| 2018 | Mrs Wilson | Coleman |
| 2017 | Emerald City | Mombi |
| 2016 | Channel Zero | Marla Painter |
| 2016 | Fleabag | Counsellor |
| 2016 | Maigret | Madame Moncin |
| 2014 | Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero | Hedwin (voice) |
| 2014 | True Detective | Rose Aguineau |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Jean |
| 2009 | Simon Schama's John Donne | |
| 2009 | Creating the World of Harry Potter | Self - 'Petunia Dursley' |
| 2008 | True Blood | Marnie Stonebrook |
| 2005 | Empire | Fulvia |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Miss Katherine Greenshaw |
| 2002 | Great Britons | Herself |
| 2000 | Gormenghast | Irma Prunesquallor |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution | |
| 1997 | Ruby | Self |
| 1995 | The Last Machine | |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Viola (voice) |
| 1991 | Performance | Hedda Gabler |
| 1991 | Performance | Richard II |
| 1991 | For the Greater Good | Gillian Savage |
| 1990 | The Hand of Stalin | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Mrs. McCormick (voice) |
| 1985 | Theatre Night | |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Miss Morrison |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| Ebb and Flo | Narrator |