Fiona Shaw
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Sense and Sensibility (2026)
as Mrs. Jennings
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
as Aunt Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
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)
IF (2024)
as Grandmother
Enola Holmes (2020)
as Miss Harrison
Anna Karenina (1997)
as Lydia
Fracture (2007)
as Judge Robinson
The Tree of Life (2011)
as Grandmother
Ladies First (2026)
as Felicity Chase
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
as Lena
Colette (2018)
as Sido
That Christmas (2024)
as Ms. Trapper (voice)
Sacred Hearts (1985)
as Sister Felicity
Echo Valley (2025)
as Leslie Oliver
Hot Milk (2025)
as Rose
The Black Dahlia (2006)
as Ramona Linscott
Mind Games (2001)
as Frances O'Neil
Ammonite (2020)
as Elizabeth Philpot
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
as Dr. Eileen Cole
Dorian Gray (2009)
as Agatha
Lizzie (2018)
as Abby Borden
The Avengers (1998)
as Father
Catch and Release (2006)
as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
as Miss Lomax
The Education of Jane Cumming (2026)
as Lady Cumming Gordon
Persuasion (1995)
as Mrs. Croft
Jane Eyre (1996)
as Mrs. Reed
The English Teacher (2013)
as Narrator
Undercover Blues (1993)
as Novacek
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
as Isabel
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look (2022)
as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Muse of Fire (2013)
as Self
The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984)
as Laura
Shakespeare's Sonnets (2012)
Actor
Doctor Sleep (2002)
as Catherine Lebourg
RKO 281 (1999)
as Hedda Hopper
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
The Hippopotamus (2017)
as Anne Logan
The Butcher Boy (1998)
as Mrs. Nugent
Maigret Sets A Trap (—)
as 演员
Russia vs. the World (2021)
as Narrator
Kindred (2020)
as Margaret
National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)
as Lady Gay Spanker
Ebb and Flo (2005)
as Narrator
The Triumph of Love (2001)
as Leontine
We Believed (2010)
as Emilie Ashurst
The White King (2016)
as Kathrin Fitz
The Last September (2000)
as Marda Norton
Park Avenue (2025)
as Kit
The Christmas Letter (2019)
as Ms. Broom (voice)
Titanic Town (1998)
as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
London Kills Me (1991)
as Headley
Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014)
as Self
Maria's Child (1993)
as Pauline
Richard II (1997)
as Richard II
The Stalemate (—)
Actor
Twelfth Night (1992)
as Viola (voice)
The Rising: 1916 (—)
as Countess Markievicz
Love Song (1985)
as Young Deirdre Walters
Fireworks for Elspeth (1983)
as Elspeth
Out of Innocence (2019)
as Catherine Flynn
Monstrous Beauty (—)
as Aphra Ben
Hedda Gabler (1993)
as Hedda Gabler
The Waste Land (1995)
as Herself