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Name
Fiona Shaw

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1958-07-10 (68 years old)

Place of Birth
County Cork, Ireland

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

Movies

Tv Shows

2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Petunia Dursley
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Petunia Dursley
1998 The Butcher Boy as Mrs. Nugent
2007 Fracture as Judge Robinson
2009 Dorian Gray as Agatha
2011 The Tree of Life as Grandmother
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Petunia Dursley
1998 The Avengers as Father
1993 Undercover Blues as Novacek
2006 The Black Dahlia as Ramona Linscott
1990 Mountains of the Moon as Isabel
2006 Catch and Release as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
1985 Love Song as Young Deirdre Walters
Soon Monstrous Beauty as Aphra Ben
1995 Persuasion as Mrs. Croft
1996 Jane Eyre as Mrs. Reed
2025 Park Avenue as Kit
1999 RKO 281 as Hedda Hopper
2025 Hot Milk as Rose
1983 Fireworks for Elspeth as Elspeth
2024 IF as Grandmother
2013 The English Teacher as Narrator
1993 Maria's Child as Pauline
2014 Great Poets: In Their Own Words as Self
1993 Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
1991 London Kills Me as Headley
1997 Richard II as Richard II
1997 Anna Karenina as Lydia
2005 Ebb and Flo as Narrator
2015 Pixels as Prime Minister (uncredited)
1989 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown as Dr. Eileen Cole
2001 The Triumph of Love as Leontine
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 That Christmas as Ms. Trapper (voice)
2007 Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland as Narrator (voice)
2016 The White King as Kathrin Fitz
Soon The Rising: 1916 as Countess Markievicz
1993 Super Mario Bros. as Lena
2001 Mind Games as Frances O'Neil
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady as Miss Lomax
2025 Echo Valley as Leslie Oliver
2013 Muse of Fire as Self
2017 The Hippopotamus as Anne Logan
2010 National Theatre Live: London Assurance as Lady Gay Spanker
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Petunia Dursley
2000 The Last September as Marda Norton
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Petunia Dursley
2018 Colette as Sido
2010 We Believed as Emilie Ashurst
1985 Sacred Hearts as Sister Felicity
1995 The Waste Land as Herself
1998 Titanic Town as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
2018 Lizzie as Abby Borden
2020 Ammonite as Elizabeth Philpot
2019 Out of Innocence as Catherine Flynn
2020 Enola Holmes as Miss Harrison
2020 Kindred as Margaret
2012 Shakespeare's Sonnets
2019 The Christmas Letter as Ms. Broom
2021 Russia vs. the World as Narrator
2026 Ladies First as Felicity Chase
Soon The Stalemate
2002 Doctor Sleep as Catherine Lebourg
2026 Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings
1992 Twelfth Night as Viola (voice)
1984 The Man Who Shot Christmas as Laura
2027 The Education of Jane Cumming as Lady Cumming Gordon

2005 Empire ( 6 episodes ) as Fulvia
2008 True Blood ( 12 episodes ) as Marnie Stonebrook
2019 Baptiste ( 6 episodes ) as Emma Chambers
1995 The Last Machine ( 5 episodes )
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Hedda Gabler
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Richard II
2016 Channel Zero ( 6 episodes ) as Marla Painter
1997 Ruby ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero ( 1 episode ) as Hedwin (voice)
2016 Fleabag ( 1 episode ) as Counsellor
2009 Simon Schama's John Donne ( 1 episode )
1984 Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Miss Morrison
2018 Killing Eve ( 32 episodes ) as Carolyn Martens
2018 Mrs Wilson ( 3 episodes ) as Coleman
2014 True Detective ( 6 episodes ) as Rose Aguineau
1990 The Hand of Stalin ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
2002 Great Britons ( 1 episode ) as Herself
2022 Andor ( 4 episodes ) as Maarva Andor
2014 Inside No. 9 ( 1 episode ) as Jean
2016 Maigret ( 1 episode ) as Madame Moncin
1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ( 1 episode ) as Viola (voice)
2005 Ebb and Flo ( 26 episodes ) as Narrator
2022 Bad Sisters ( 7 episodes ) as Angelica Collins
1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. McCormick (voice)
Soon Pride and Prejudice ( 1 episode ) as Lady Catherine de Bourg
2017 Emerald City ( 2 episodes ) as Mombi
1991 For the Greater Good ( 2 episodes ) as Gillian Savage
2000 Gormenghast ( 4 episodes ) as Irma Prunesquallor
1985 Theatre Night ( 1 episode ) as Clytemnestra
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
1982 All for Love ( 1 episode ) as Elspeth Erskine
1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1 episode ) as Miss Morrison

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