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).
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Filmography
all 99
Movies 66
TV Shows 33
self 10
Narrator 6
Voice 5
Director 1

Echo Valley (2025)

Hot Milk (2025)

That Christmas (2024)

IF (2024)

Andor (2022)

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look (2022)

Bad Sisters (2022)

Russia vs. the World (2021)

Ammonite (2020)

Kindred (2020)

Enola Holmes (2020)

The Christmas Letter (2019)

Out of Innocence (2019)

Baptiste (2019)

Mrs Wilson (2018)

Lizzie (2018)

Killing Eve (2018)

Leopard Huntress (2018)

The Hippopotamus (2017)

Untitled (2017)

Channel Zero (2016)

Fleabag (2016)

The White King (2016)

Maigret (2016)

Pixels (2015)

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014)

The Secret Life of Books (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)

National Theatre Live: London Assurance (2010)

Creating the World of Harry Potter (2009)

True Blood (2008)

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland (2007)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Fracture (2007)

Catch and Release (2006)

The Black Dahlia (2006)

Empire (2005)

Ebb and Flo (2005)

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Great Britons (2002)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

The Triumph of Love (2001)

The Seventh Stream (2001)

Mind Games (2001)

The Last September (2000)

RKO 281 (2000)

Gormenghast (2000)

Titanic Town (1998)

The Butcher Boy (1998)

Ruby (1997)

Richard II (1997)

Jane Eyre (1996)

Persuasion (1995)

The Waste Land (1995)

Maria's Child (1993)

Hedda Gabler (1993)

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992)

London Kills Me (1991)

For the Greater Good (1991)

Performance (1991)

3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)

The Hand of Stalin (1990)

The Simpsons (1989)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Sacred Hearts (1985)

Love Song (1985)

Sherlock Holmes (1984)

Tony Awards (1956)

Ebb and Flo

Anansi Boys

The Rising: 1916

Monstrous Beauty
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1958-07-10 (66 years old)
Birth PlaceCounty Cork, Ireland
CitizenshipsIreland, England
Also Known AsFiona Mary Wilson, فیونا شاو, فایونا شاو
AwardsTheatre World Award, Laurence Olivier Awards, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
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