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