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