Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 10, 1958
Place of Birth
County Cork, Ireland
Credits
100 titles
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
Filmography
The Education of Jane Cumming
Lady Cumming Gordon
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
Ladies First
Felicity Chase
Park Avenue
Kit
Echo Valley
Leslie Oliver
Hot Milk
Rose
That Christmas
Ms. Trapper (voice)
IF
Grandmother
Andor
Maarva Andor
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bad Sisters
Angelica Collins
Russia vs. the World
Narrator
Ammonite
Elizabeth Philpot
Kindred
Margaret
Enola Holmes
Miss Harrison
The Christmas Letter
Ms. Broom
Out of Innocence
Catherine Flynn
Baptiste
Emma Chambers
Mrs Wilson
Coleman
Colette
Sido
Lizzie
Abby Borden
Killing Eve
Carolyn Martens
The Hippopotamus
Anne Logan
Emerald City
Mombi
Channel Zero
Marla Painter
Fleabag
Counsellor
The White King
Kathrin Fitz
Maigret
Madame Moncin
Pixels
Prime Minister (uncredited)
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Hedwin (voice)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Self
Inside No. 9
Jean
True Detective
Rose Aguineau
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Director
Muse of Fire
Self
The English Teacher
Narrator
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Tree of Life
Grandmother
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Petunia Dursley
We Believed
Emilie Ashurst
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Lady Gay Spanker
Dorian Gray
Agatha
Simon Schama's John Donne
True Blood
Marnie Stonebrook
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Petunia Dursley
Fracture
Judge Robinson
Catch and Release
Mrs. Ellen Douglas
The Black Dahlia
Ramona Linscott
Empire
Fulvia