Fiona Shaw
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-10
Place of Birth
County Cork, Ireland
Fiona Shaw
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.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Nov 16, 2001
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Jul 08, 2007
The Butcher Boy
Feb 20, 1998
Fracture
Apr 19, 2007
Dorian Gray
Sep 09, 2009
The Tree of Life
May 17, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Nov 17, 2010
The Avengers
Aug 13, 1998
Undercover Blues
Sep 10, 1993
The Black Dahlia
Sep 15, 2006
Mountains of the Moon
Feb 16, 1990
Catch and Release
Oct 20, 2006
Love Song
Apr 06, 1985
Monstrous Beauty
Persuasion
May 01, 1995
Jane Eyre
Jan 20, 1996
Park Avenue
Nov 14, 2025
RKO 281
Apr 07, 2000
Hot Milk
May 28, 2025
Fireworks for Elspeth
Oct 02, 1983
IF
May 08, 2024
The English Teacher
May 16, 2013
Maria's Child
Mar 28, 1993
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Aug 10, 2014
Hedda Gabler
Mar 27, 1993
London Kills Me
Dec 13, 1991
Richard II
Jan 01, 1997
Anna Karenina
Apr 04, 1997
Ebb and Flo
Apr 14, 2005
Pixels
Jul 16, 2015
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Apr 07, 1989
The Triumph of Love
Sep 07, 2001
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Sep 08, 2022
That Christmas
Nov 27, 2024
Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland
Jul 30, 2007
The White King
Jun 18, 2016
The Rising: 1916
Super Mario Bros.
May 28, 1993
Mind Games
Jan 06, 2001
3 Men and a Little Lady
Nov 21, 1990
Echo Valley
Jun 13, 2025
Muse of Fire
Sep 26, 2013
The Hippopotamus
Mar 08, 2017
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Jun 24, 2010
The Last September
Apr 28, 2000
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Nov 13, 2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
May 31, 2004
Colette
Sep 21, 2018
We Believed
Nov 12, 2010
Sacred Hearts
Nov 01, 1985
The Waste Land
Mar 24, 1995
Titanic Town
Aug 08, 1998
Lizzie
Sep 14, 2018
Ammonite
Nov 13, 2020
Out of Innocence
Apr 12, 2019
Enola Holmes
Sep 23, 2020
Kindred
Nov 06, 2020
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Jul 18, 2012
The Christmas Letter
Dec 22, 2019
Russia vs. the World
Jan 01, 2021
Ladies First
The Stalemate
Scotch Verdict
Doctor Sleep
Aug 16, 2002
Sense and Sensibility
Twelfth Night
Oct 01, 1992
Maigret Sets A Trap
Mar 28, 2016
Gormenghast
Jan 17, 2000
Empire
Jun 28, 2005
Trial & Retribution
Oct 19, 1997
True Blood
Sep 07, 2008
Baptiste
Feb 17, 2019
The Last Machine
Jan 07, 1995
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
Performance
Oct 05, 1991
For the Greater Good
Mar 20, 1991
Channel Zero
Oct 11, 2016
Ruby
May 12, 1997
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Dec 05, 2014
Emerald City
Jan 06, 2017
Fleabag
Jul 21, 2016
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Simon Schama's John Donne
May 26, 2009
Sherlock Holmes
Apr 24, 1984
Killing Eve
Apr 08, 2018
Mrs Wilson
Nov 27, 2018
True Detective
Jan 12, 2014
The Hand of Stalin
Oct 16, 1990
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dec 12, 2004
Great Britons
Oct 20, 2002
Andor
Sep 21, 2022
Inside No. 9
Feb 05, 2014
Maigret
Mar 28, 2016
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Nov 09, 1992
Theatre Night
Sep 15, 1985
Ebb and Flo
Bad Sisters
Aug 19, 2022
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989