
About
Fiona Shaw
Overview
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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Known for
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2025 | Echo Valley | Actor | Jessie Oliver | 60 Fair |
2025 | Hot Milk | Actor | Rose | 58 Average |
2025 | Park Avenue | Actor | Kit | N/A N/A |
2024 | That Christmas | Actor | Ms. Trapper (voice) | 64 Fair |
2024 | IF | Actor | Grandmother | 67 Fair |
2022 | Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Actor | Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
2021 | Russia vs. the World | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
2020 | Ammonite | Actor | Elizabeth Philpot | 64 Fair |
2020 | Kindred | Actor | Margaret | 58 Average |
2020 | Enola Holmes | Actor | Miss Harrison | 71 Good |
2019 | The Christmas Letter | Actor | Ms. Broom | 58 Average |
2019 | Out of Innocence | Actor | Catherine Flynn | 58 Average |
2019 | Baptiste | Actor | Emma Chambers | 69 Fair |
2018 | Mrs Wilson | Actor | Coleman | 69 Fair |
2018 | Colette | Actor | Sido | 65 Fair |
2018 | Lizzie | Actor | Abby Borden | 59 Average |
2018 | Killing Eve | Actor | Carolyn Martens | 79 Good |
2017 | Private View | Actor | Jean | N/A N/A |
2017 | Private View | Actor | Jean | N/A N/A |
2017 | The Hippopotamus | Actor | Anne Logan | 59 Average |
2016 | The White King | Actor | Kathrin Fitz | 58 Average |
2016 | Maigret Sets a Trap | Actor | Madame Moncin | 63 Fair |
2016 | Maigret sets a trap | Actor | Pani Moncin | 61 Fair |
2015 | Pixels | Actor | Prime Minister (uncredited) | 58 Average |
2014 | Great Poets: In Their Own Words | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
2014 | True Detective | Actor | Rose Aguineau | 82 Very good |
2013 | Muse of Fire | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
2013 | The English Teacher | Actor | Narrator | 57 Average |
2012 | Shakespeare's Sonnets | Actor | N/A N/A |
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2011 | The Tree of Life | Actor | Grandmother | 66 Fair |
2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Actor | Petunia Dursley | 76 Good |
2010 | We Believed | Actor | Emilie Ashurst | 59 Average |
2010 | National Theatre Live: London Assurance | Actor | Lady Gay Spanker | 58 Average |
2009 | Creating the World of Harry Potter | Actor | Self - 'Petunia Dursley' | 69 Fair |
2009 | Dorian Gray | Actor | Agatha | 59 Average |
2007 | Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Actor | Petunia Dursley | 76 Good |
2007 | Fracture | Actor | Judge Robinson | 71 Good |
2006 | Catch and Release | Actor | Mrs. Ellen Douglas | 59 Average |
2006 | The Black Dahlia | Actor | Ramona Linscott | 56 Average |
2005 | Empire | Actor | Fulvia | 67 Fair |
2005 | Ebb and Flo | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Actor | Petunia Dursley | 79 Good |
2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Actor | Petunia Dursley | 76 Good |
2002 | Doctor Sleep | Actor | Lebourg | 57 Average |
2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Actor | Petunia Dursley | 78 Good |
2001 | The Triumph of Love | Actor | Leontine | 58 Average |
2001 | Mind Games | Actor | Frances O'Neil | 58 Average |
2000 | The Last September | Actor | Marda Norton | 58 Average |
2000 | RKO 281 | Actor | Hedda Hopper | 59 Average |
2000 | Gormenghast | Actor | Irma Prunesquallor | 69 Fair |
1998 | The Avengers | Actor | Father | 49 Bad |
1998 | Titanic Town | Actor | Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo) | 58 Average |
1998 | The Butcher Boy | Actor | Mrs. Nugent | 60 Fair |
1997 | Anna Karenina | Actor | Lydia | 58 Average |
1997 | Richard II | Actor | Richard II | 59 Average |
1996 | Jane Eyre | Actor | Mrs. Reed | 61 Fair |
1995 | Persuasion | Actor | Mrs. Croft | 61 Fair |
1995 | The Waste Land | Actor | Herself | 58 Average |
1995 | The Last Machine | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1993 | Undercover Blues | Actor | Novacek | 58 Average |
1993 | Super Mario Bros. | Actor | Lena | 48 Bad |
1993 | Maria's Child | Actor | Pauline | 58 Average |
1993 | Hedda Gabler | Actor | Hedda Gabler | N/A N/A |
1992 | Twelfth Night | Actor | Viola (voice) | N/A N/A |
1991 | London Kills Me | Actor | Headley | 58 Average |
1991 | For the Greater Good | Actor | Gillian Savage | N/A N/A |
1990 | 3 Men and a Little Lady | Actor | Miss Lomax | 58 Average |
1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Actor | Isabel | 59 Average |
1989 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Actor | Dr. Eileen Cole | 69 Fair |
1985 | Sacred Hearts | Actor | Sister Felicity | 58 Average |
1985 | Love Song | Actor | Young Deirdre Walters | N/A N/A |
1983 | Fireworks for Elspeth | Actor | Elspeth | N/A N/A |
The Stalemate | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Scotch Verdict | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Sense and Sensibility | Actor | Mrs. Jennings | N/A N/A |
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Monstrous Beauty | Actor | Aphra Ben | N/A N/A |
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Ladies First | Actor | N/A N/A |
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The Rising: 1916 | Actor | Countess Markievicz | N/A N/A |
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Ebb and Flo | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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Pride & Prejudice | Actor | Lady Catherine de Bourg | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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2013 | Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2013 | Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |