Fiona Shaw

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
Acting
Born
July 10, 1958 (age 66)
Place of Birth
County Cork, Ireland
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2001

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

1998

The Butcher Boy

2007

Fracture

2009

Dorian Gray

2011

The Tree of Life

2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

1998

The Avengers

1993

Undercover Blues

2006

The Black Dahlia

1990

Mountains of the Moon

2006

Catch and Release

1985

Love Song

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Monstrous Beauty

1995

Persuasion

1996

Jane Eyre

2025

Park Avenue

2000

RKO 281

2025

Hot Milk

1983

Fireworks for Elspeth

2024

IF

2013

The English Teacher

1993

Maria's Child

2014

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

1993

Hedda Gabler

1991

London Kills Me

1997

Richard II

1997

Anna Karenina

2005

Ebb and Flo

2015

Pixels

1989

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

2001

The Triumph of Love

2022

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

2024

That Christmas

2007

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland

2016

The White King

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The Rising: 1916

1993

Super Mario Bros.

2001

Mind Games

1990

3 Men and a Little Lady

2025

Echo Valley

2013

Muse of Fire

2017

The Hippopotamus

2010

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

2000

The Last September

2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2018

Colette

2010

We Believed

1985

Sacred Hearts

1995

The Waste Land

1998

Titanic Town

2018

Lizzie

2020

Ammonite

2019

Out of Innocence

2020

Enola Holmes

2020

Kindred

2012

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2019

The Christmas Letter

2021

Russia vs. the World

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Ladies First

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The Stalemate

2023

Gormenghast

2023

Empire

2023

Trial & Retribution

2023

True Blood

2023

Baptiste

2023

The Last Machine

2023

Performance

2023

Performance

2023

For the Greater Good

2023

Channel Zero

2023

Ruby

2023

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

2023

Emerald City

2023

Fleabag

2023

Tony Awards

2023

Simon Schama's John Donne

2023

Sherlock Holmes

2023

Killing Eve

2023

Mrs Wilson

2023

True Detective

2023

The Hand of Stalin

2023

Agatha Christie's Marple

2023

Great Britons

2023

Andor

2023

Inside No. 9

2023

Maigret

2023

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

2023

Theatre Night

2023

Ebb and Flo

2023

Bad Sisters

2023

Creating the World of Harry Potter

2023

The Simpsons

2013

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

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