Fiona Shaw
1 FOLLOWER • 42 CREDITS • JUL 10, 1958 • 67
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
The Simpsons
Tony Awards
Inside No. 9
Sherlock Holmes
Andor
Agatha Christie's Marple
Performance
Bad Sisters
Fleabag
Emerald City
Maigret
Pixels
Titanic Town
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Channel Zero
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
True Blood
Pride & Prejudice
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Fracture
3 Men and a Little Lady
Super Mario Bros.
Enola Holmes
The Avengers
Dorian Gray
Catch and Release
Ammonite
The Tree of Life
Echo Valley
Colette
True Detective
IF
Killing Eve
That Christmas
Baptiste
Mrs Wilson
The Triumph of Love
Hedda Gabler
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