Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw

  • Birthday: 1958-07-10
  • Place of birth: County Cork, Ireland
  • Also know as: Fiona Mary Wilson

Biography

Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook in the fourth season of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22). For her performance in Killing Eve, Shaw won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performances in the second seasons of Killing Eve and Fleabag, she received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series respectively. For the third season of Killing Eve, she was again nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Shaw has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She won the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Actress for various roles, including Electra, the 1994 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Machinal, and the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land. Her other stage work includes playing the title role in Medea in the West End and on Broadway (2001–2002). She was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Filmography

Fracture

2007

As Judge Robinson

The Butcher Boy

1998

As Mrs. Nugent

Dorian Gray

2009

As Agatha

The Tree of Life

2011

As Grandmother

The Avengers

1998

As Father

Undercover Blues

1993

As Novacek

The Black Dahlia

2006

As Ramona Linscott

Mountains of the Moon

1990

As Isabel

Catch and Release

2006

As Mrs. Ellen Douglas

Persuasion

1995

As Mrs. Croft

Jane Eyre

1996

As Mrs. Reed

RKO 281

2000

As Hedda Hopper

The English Teacher

2013

As Narrator

Hedda Gabler

1993

As Hedda Gabler

London Kills Me

1991

As Headley

Richard II

1997

As Richard II

Anna Karenina

1997

As Lydia

The Triumph of Love

2001

As Leontine

The White King

2017

As Kathrin Fitz

The Rising: 1916

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As Countess Markievicz

3 Men and a Little Lady

1990

As Miss Lomax

Super Mario Bros.

1993

As Lena

Mind Games

2001

As Frances O'Neil

Muse of Fire

2013

As Self

The Hippopotamus

2017

As Anne Logan

The Last September

2000

As Marda Norton

Colette

2018

As Sido

We Believed

2010

As Emilie Ashurst

Sacred Hearts

1985

As Sister Felicity

The Waste Land

1995

As Herself

Titanic Town

1998

As Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)

Lizzie

2018

As Abby Borden

Ammonite

2020

As Elizabeth Philpot

Out of Innocence

2019

As Catherine Flynn

Enola Holmes

2020

As Miss Harrison

Kindred

2020

As Margaret

The Christmas Letter

2019

As Ms. Broom

Russia vs. the World

2021

As Narrator

Hot Milk

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As Rose Papastergiadis

Maria's Child

1993

As Pauline

Pixels

2015

As Prime Minister (uncredited)

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

2022

As Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Love Song

1985

As Young Deirdre Walters

Monstrous Beauty

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As Aphra Ben

Park Avenue

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As Kit

Fireworks for Elspeth

1983

As Elspeth

IF

2024

As Grandmother

Ebb and Flo

2005

As Narrator

That Christmas

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As Ms. Trapper (voice)

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland

2007

As Narrator (voice)

Killing Eve: Production Diary

2018

As Carolyn Martens

Production

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