
Fiona Shaw
Acting
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.
Born: July 10, 1958 · County Cork, Ireland
Filmography (63)

Echo Valley
2025

Hot Milk
2025

That Christmas
2024

IF
2024

Andor
2022

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022

Bad Sisters
2022

Ammonite
2020

Kindred
2020

Enola Holmes
2020

Baptiste
2019

Mrs Wilson
2018

Colette
2018

Lizzie
2018

Killing Eve
2018

The Hippopotamus
2017

Emerald City
2017

Channel Zero
2016

Fleabag
2016

The White King
2016

Maigret
2016

Pixels
2015

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014

Inside No. 9
2014

True Detective
2014

The English Teacher
2013

The Tree of Life
2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010

We Believed
2010

Dorian Gray
2009

True Blood
2008

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007

Fracture
2007

Catch and Release
2006

The Black Dahlia
2006

Empire
2005

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002

Doctor Sleep
2002

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001

The Triumph of Love
2001

The Last September
2000

Gormenghast
2000

RKO 281
1999

The Avengers
1998

Titanic Town
1998

The Butcher Boy
1998

Trial & Retribution
1997

Ruby
1997

Anna Karenina
1997

Jane Eyre
1996

Persuasion
1995

Undercover Blues
1993

Super Mario Bros.
1993

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992

London Kills Me
1991

Performance
1991

3 Men and a Little Lady
1990

Mountains of the Moon
1990

The Simpsons
1989

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989

Sherlock Holmes
1984
