Fiona Shaw profile
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Fiona Shaw

10th July 1958 County Cork, Ireland Acting

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.

65 Movies 30 TV Shows 2 In Production 97 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

IF poster
IF 8th May 2024 as Grandmother
Ammonite poster
Ammonite 13th November 2020 as Elizabeth Philpot
Lizzie poster
Lizzie 14th September 2018 as Abby Borden
Pixels poster
Pixels 16th July 2015 as Prime Minister (uncredited)
RKO 281 poster
RKO 281 20th November 1999 as Hedda Hopper
Titanic Town poster
Titanic Town 8th August 1998 as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
Love Song poster
Love Song 6th April 1985 as Young Deirdre Walters
Andor poster
Andor 21st September 2022 as Maarva Andor
Baptiste poster
Baptiste 17th February 2019 as Emma Chambers
Maigret poster
Maigret 28th March 2016 as Madame Moncin
Ruby poster
Ruby 12th May 1997 as Self
The Education of Jane Cumming poster Coming soon
The Education of Jane Cumming 22nd October 2026 as Lady Cumming Gordon
Sense and Sensibility poster Coming soon
Sense and Sensibility 11th September 2026 as Mrs. Jennings