Fiona Shaw
Acting • Born 1958-07-10
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.
Filmography
98 credits
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Movie • 2001
Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie • 2007
Petunia Dursley
The Butcher Boy
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Nugent
Fracture
Movie • 2007
Judge Robinson
Dorian Gray
Movie • 2009
Agatha
The Tree of Life
Movie • 2011
Grandmother
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie • 2010
Petunia Dursley
The Avengers
Movie • 1998
Father
Undercover Blues
Movie • 1993
Novacek
The Black Dahlia
Movie • 2006
Ramona Linscott
Mountains of the Moon
Movie • 1990
Isabel
Catch and Release
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Ellen Douglas
Love Song
Movie • 1985
Young Deirdre Walters
Monstrous Beauty
Movie
Aphra Ben
Persuasion
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Croft
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Reed
Park Avenue
Movie • 2025
Kit
RKO 281
Movie • 1999
Hedda Hopper
Hot Milk
Movie • 2025
Rose
Fireworks for Elspeth
Movie • 1983
Elspeth
IF
Movie • 2024
Grandmother
The English Teacher
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Maria's Child
Movie • 1993
Pauline
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Movie • 2014
Self
Hedda Gabler
Movie • 1993
Hedda Gabler
London Kills Me
Movie • 1991
Headley
Richard II
Movie • 1997
Richard II
Anna Karenina
Movie • 1997
Lydia
Ebb and Flo
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Pixels
Movie • 2015
Prime Minister (uncredited)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Movie • 1989
Dr. Eileen Cole
The Triumph of Love
Movie • 2001
Leontine
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Movie • 2022
Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
That Christmas
Movie • 2024
Ms. Trapper (voice)
Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland
Movie • 2007
Narrator (voice)
The White King
Movie • 2016
Kathrin Fitz
The Rising: 1916
Movie
Countess Markievicz
Super Mario Bros.
Movie • 1993
Lena
Mind Games
Movie • 2001
Frances O'Neil
3 Men and a Little Lady
Movie • 1990
Miss Lomax
Echo Valley
Movie • 2025
Leslie Oliver
Muse of Fire
Movie • 2013
Self
The Hippopotamus
Movie • 2017
Anne Logan
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Movie • 2010
Lady Gay Spanker
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie • 2004
Petunia Dursley
The Last September
Movie • 2000
Marda Norton
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Movie • 2002
Petunia Dursley
Colette
Movie • 2018
Sido
We Believed
Movie • 2010
Emilie Ashurst
Sacred Hearts
Movie • 1985
Sister Felicity
The Waste Land
Movie • 1995
Herself
Titanic Town
Movie • 1998
Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
Lizzie
Movie • 2018
Abby Borden
Ammonite
Movie • 2020
Elizabeth Philpot
Out of Innocence
Movie • 2019
Catherine Flynn
Enola Holmes
Movie • 2020
Miss Harrison
Kindred
Movie • 2020
Margaret
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Movie • 2012
The Christmas Letter
Movie • 2019
Ms. Broom
Russia vs. the World
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Ladies First
Movie
The Stalemate
Movie
Doctor Sleep
Movie • 2002
Lebourg
Sense and Sensibility
Movie • 2026
Mrs. Jennings
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1992
Viola (voice)
The Man Who Shot Christmas
Movie • 1984
Laura
The Education of Jane Cumming
Movie • 2026
Lady Cumming Gordon
Gormenghast
TV • 2000
Irma Prunesquallor
Empire
TV • 2005
Fulvia
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
True Blood
TV • 2008
Marnie Stonebrook
Baptiste
TV • 2019
Emma Chambers
The Last Machine
TV • 1995
Performance
TV • 1991
Hedda Gabler
Performance
TV • 1991
Richard II
Channel Zero
TV • 2016
Marla Painter
Ruby
TV • 1997
Self
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
TV • 2014
Hedwin (voice)
Fleabag
TV • 2016
Counsellor
Simon Schama's John Donne
TV • 2009
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Miss Morrison
Killing Eve
TV • 2018
Carolyn Martens
Mrs Wilson
TV • 2018
Coleman
True Detective
TV • 2014
Rose Aguineau
The Hand of Stalin
TV • 1990
Self - Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Miss Katherine Greenshaw
Great Britons
TV • 2002
Herself
Andor
TV • 2022
Maarva Andor
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Jean
Maigret
TV • 2016
Madame Moncin
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Viola (voice)
Theatre Night
TV • 1985
Ebb and Flo
TV • 2005
Narrator
Bad Sisters
TV • 2022
Angelica Collins
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Mrs. McCormick (voice)
Pride and Prejudice
TV
Lady Catherine de Bourg
Emerald City
TV • 2017
Mombi
For the Greater Good
TV • 1991
Gillian Savage