Fiona Shaw
- Acting
- July 10, 1958 · Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
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
- Pride and Prejudice · Lady Catherine de Bourg
- 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 (Voice)
- 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
- Ebb and Flo · Narrator
- Ebb and Flo · Narrator
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Miss Katherine Greenshaw
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · Petunia Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets · Petunia Dursley
- Great Britons · Self
- Doctor Sleep · Catherine Lebourg
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone · Aunt Petunia Dursley
- The Triumph of Love · Leontine
- Mind Games · Frances O'Neil
- The Last September · Marda Norton
- Gormenghast · Irma Prunesquallor
- RKO 281 · Hedda Hopper
- The Avengers · Father
- Titanic Town · Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
- The Butcher Boy · Mrs. Nugent
- Ruby · Self
- Anna Karenina · Lydia
- Richard II · Richard II
- Jane Eyre · Mrs. Reed
- Persuasion · Mrs. Croft
- The Waste Land · Self
- The Last Machine
- Undercover Blues · Novacek
- Super Mario Bros. · Lena
- Maria's Child · Pauline
- Hedda Gabler · Hedda Gabler
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales · Viola (Voice)
- Twelfth Night · Viola (Voice)