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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

97

Gender

Female

Birthday

1958-07-10 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

County Cork, Ireland

Also Known As

Fiona Shaw

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Manny Jacinto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

The Butcher Boy

1998

The Butcher Boy

as

Mrs. Nugent

Fracture

2007

Fracture

as

Judge Robinson

Dorian Gray

2009

Dorian Gray

as

Agatha

The Tree of Life

2011

The Tree of Life

as

Grandmother

The Avengers

1998

The Avengers

as

Father

Undercover Blues

1993

Undercover Blues

as

Novacek

The Black Dahlia

2006

The Black Dahlia

as

Ramona Linscott

Catch and Release

2006

Catch and Release

as

Mrs. Ellen Douglas

Love Song

1985

Love Song

as

Young Deirdre Walters

Monstrous Beauty

Monstrous Beauty

as

Aphra Ben

Persuasion

1995

Persuasion

as

Mrs. Croft

Jane Eyre

1996

Jane Eyre

as

Mrs. Reed

Park Avenue

2025

Park Avenue

as

Kit

RKO 281

2000

RKO 281

as

Hedda Hopper

Hot Milk

2025

Hot Milk

as

Rose Papastergiadis

IF

2024

IF

as

Grandmother

The English Teacher

2013

The English Teacher

as

Narrator

Maria's Child

1993

Maria's Child

as

Pauline

Hedda Gabler

1993

Hedda Gabler

as

Hedda Gabler

London Kills Me

1991

London Kills Me

as

Headley

Richard II

1997

Richard II

as

Richard II

Anna Karenina

1997

Anna Karenina

as

Lydia

Ebb and Flo

2005

Ebb and Flo

as

Narrator

Pixels

2015

Pixels

as

Prime Minister (uncredited)

The Triumph of Love

2001

The Triumph of Love

as

Leontine

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

2022

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

as

Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)

That Christmas

2024

That Christmas

as

Ms. Trapper (voice)

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland

2007

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland

as

Narrator (voice)

The White King

2016

The White King

as

Kathrin Fitz

The Rising: 1916

The Rising: 1916

as

Countess Markievicz

Mind Games

2001

Mind Games

as

Frances O'Neil

3 Men and a Little Lady

1990

3 Men and a Little Lady

as

Miss Lomax

Echo Valley

2025

Echo Valley

as

Jessie Oliver

Muse of Fire

2013

Muse of Fire

as

Self

The Hippopotamus

2017

The Hippopotamus

as

Anne Logan

The Last September

2000

The Last September

as

Marda Norton

Colette

2018

Colette

as

Sido

We Believed

2010

We Believed

as

Emilie Ashurst

Sacred Hearts

1985

Sacred Hearts

as

Sister Felicity

The Waste Land

1995

The Waste Land

as

Herself

Titanic Town

1998

Titanic Town

as

Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)

Lizzie

2018

Lizzie

as

Abby Borden

Ammonite

2020

Ammonite

as

Elizabeth Philpot

Out of Innocence

2019

Out of Innocence

as

Catherine Flynn

Enola Holmes

2020

Enola Holmes

as

Miss Harrison

Kindred

2020

Kindred

as

Margaret

The Christmas Letter

2019

The Christmas Letter

as

Ms. Broom

Russia vs. the World

2021

Russia vs. the World

as

Narrator

Maigret Sets A Trap

2016

Maigret Sets A Trap

as

曼森夫人

Gormenghast

Gormenghast

as

Irma Prunesquallor

Empire

Empire

as

Fulvia

True Blood

True Blood

as

Marnie Stonebrook

Baptiste

Baptiste

as

Emma Chambers

Performance

Performance

as

Hedda Gabler

Performance

Performance

as

Richard II

For the Greater Good

For the Greater Good

as

Gillian Savage

Channel Zero

Channel Zero

as

Marla Painter

Ruby

Ruby

as

Self

Fleabag

Fleabag

as

Counsellor

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

as

Self - Nominee

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

as

Miss Morrison

Killing Eve

Killing Eve

as

Carolyn Martens

Mrs Wilson

Mrs Wilson

as

Coleman

True Detective

True Detective

as

Rose Aguineau

The Hand of Stalin

The Hand of Stalin

as

Self - Narrator (voice)

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

as

Miss Katherine Greenshaw

Great Britons

Great Britons

as

Herself

Andor

Andor

as

Maarva Andor

Maigret

Maigret

as

Madame Moncin

Ebb and Flo

Ebb and Flo

as

Narrator

Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters

as

Angelica Collins

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Creating the World of Harry Potter

as

Self - 'Petunia Dursley'

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

as

Mrs. McCormick (voice)

Production

Crew

Directing