
Fiona Shaw
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-07-10 (66 years old)
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).
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Known For
Acting
Monstrous Beauty
as Aphra Ben
The Rising: 1916
as Countess Markievicz
(2025)
Hot Milk
as Rose Papastergiadis
(2025)
Echo Valley
as Jessie Oliver
(2025)
Park Avenue
as Kit
(2024)
IF
as Grandmother
(2024)
That Christmas
as Ms. Trapper (voice)
(2022)
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2021)
Russia vs. the World
as Narrator
(2020)
Enola Holmes
as Miss Harrison
(2020)
Ammonite
as Elizabeth Philpot
(2020)
Kindred
as Margaret
(2019)
The Christmas Letter
as Ms. Broom
(2019)
Out of Innocence
as Catherine Flynn
(2018)
Colette
as Sido
(2018)
Lizzie
as Abby Borden
(2017)
The Hippopotamus
as Anne Logan
(2016)
The White King
as Kathrin Fitz
(2015)
Pixels
as Prime Minister (uncredited)
(2014)
(2013)
The English Teacher
as Narrator
(2013)
Muse of Fire
as Self
(2012)
(2011)
The Tree of Life
as Grandmother
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Petunia Dursley
(2010)
We Believed
as Emilie Ashurst
(2010)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Lady Gay Spanker
(2009)
Dorian Gray
as Agatha
(2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Petunia Dursley
(2007)
Fracture
as Judge Robinson
(2007)
Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
The Black Dahlia
as Ramona Linscott
(2006)
Catch and Release
as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
(2005)
Ebb and Flo
as Narrator
(2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Petunia Dursley
(2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Petunia Dursley
(2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Petunia Dursley
(2001)
The Triumph of Love
as Leontine
(2001)
Mind Games
as Frances O'Neil
(2000)
RKO 281
as Hedda Hopper
(2000)
The Last September
as Marda Norton
(1998)
The Avengers
as Father
(1998)
The Butcher Boy
as Mrs. Nugent
(1998)
Titanic Town
as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
(1997)
Anna Karenina
as Lydia
(1997)
Richard II
as Richard II
(1996)
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Reed
(1995)
Persuasion
as Mrs. Croft
(1995)
The Waste Land
as Herself
(1993)
Super Mario Bros.
as Lena
(1993)
Undercover Blues
as Novacek
(1993)
Maria's Child
as Pauline
(1993)
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
(1991)
London Kills Me
as Headley
(1990)
3 Men and a Little Lady
as Miss Lomax
(1990)
Mountains of the Moon
as Isabel
(1989)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
as Dr. Eileen Cole
(1985)
Sacred Hearts
as Sister Felicity
(1985)
Love Song
as Young Deirdre Walters
(1983)
Fireworks for Elspeth
as Elspeth
Crew
(2013)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Director