Fiona Shaw
Known for Acting · 97 credits
- Born
- 1958-07-10 (age 67)
- Place of birth
- 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).
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Known For
TV Shows (30)
The Simpsons
1989
as Mrs. McCormick (voice)
True Detective
2014
as Rose Aguineau
True Blood
2008
as Marnie Stonebrook
Andor
2022
as Maarva Andor
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Bad Sisters
2022
as Angelica Collins
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Miss Morrison
Killing Eve
2018
as Carolyn Martens
Inside No. 9
2014
as Jean
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014
as Hedwin (voice)
Fleabag
2016
as Counsellor
Performance
1991
as Hedda Gabler / Richard II
Channel Zero
2016
as Marla Painter
Emerald City
2017
as Mombi
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Viola (voice)
Maigret
2016
as Madame Moncin
Empire
2005
as Fulvia
Baptiste
2019
as Emma Chambers
Ruby
1997
as Self
Gormenghast
2000
as Irma Prunesquallor
Mrs Wilson
2018
as Coleman
Theatre Night
1985
as Clytemnestra
Pride and Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourg
For the Greater Good
1991
as Gillian Savage
Great Britons
2002
as Herself
The Last Machine
1995
The Hand of Stalin
1990
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Simon Schama's John Donne
2009
Ebb and Flo
2005
as Narrator
Movies (67)
Ladies First
2026
as Felicity Chase
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Petunia Dursley
Pixels
2015
as Prime Minister (uncredited)
IF
2024
as Grandmother
Enola Holmes
2020
as Miss Harrison
Fracture
2007
as Judge Robinson
The Tree of Life
2011
as Grandmother
Super Mario Bros.
1993
as Lena
Dorian Gray
2009
as Agatha
Persuasion
1995
as Mrs. Croft
Echo Valley
2025
as Leslie Oliver
Ammonite
2020
as Elizabeth Philpot
Hot Milk
2025
as Rose
That Christmas
2024
as Ms. Trapper (voice)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989
as Dr. Eileen Cole
The Black Dahlia
2006
as Ramona Linscott
Jane Eyre
1996
as Mrs. Reed
Undercover Blues
1993
as Novacek
Catch and Release
2006
as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
The Avengers
1998
as Father
The English Teacher
2013
as Narrator
Colette
2018
as Sido
3 Men and a Little Lady
1990
as Miss Lomax
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lizzie
2018
as Abby Borden
Anna Karenina
1997
as Lydia
Mountains of the Moon
1990
as Isabel
The Butcher Boy
1998
as Mrs. Nugent
Sense and Sensibility
2026
as Mrs. Jennings
RKO 281
1999
as Hedda Hopper
The Hippopotamus
2017
as Anne Logan
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Kindred
2020
as Margaret
Doctor Sleep
2002
as Catherine Lebourg
The Triumph of Love
2001
as Leontine
Park Avenue
2025
as Kit
The Stalemate
Mind Games
2001
as Frances O'Neil
The White King
2016
as Kathrin Fitz
Titanic Town
1998
as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
as Lady Gay Spanker
We Believed
2010
as Emilie Ashurst
The Education of Jane Cumming
2026
as Lady Cumming Gordon
Maria's Child
1993
as Pauline
London Kills Me
1991
as Headley
Twelfth Night
1992
as Viola (voice)
The Last September
2000
as Marda Norton
Sacred Hearts
1985
as Sister Felicity
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
The Christmas Letter
2019
as Ms. Broom
Hedda Gabler
1993
as Hedda Gabler
Out of Innocence
2019
as Catherine Flynn
The Rising: 1916
as Countess Markievicz
Monstrous Beauty
as Aphra Ben
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Fireworks for Elspeth
1983
as Elspeth
Russia vs. the World
2021
as Narrator
The Waste Land
1995
as Herself
Richard II
1997
as Richard II
Ebb and Flo
2005
as Narrator
Love Song
1985
as Young Deirdre Walters
The Man Who Shot Christmas
1984
as Laura
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
as Self
About Fiona Shaw
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 Szec… With 97 credits spanning from 1956 to 2026, Fiona Shaw has appeared in 67 films and 30 TV shows.
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- Ladies First (2026) — as Felicity Chase
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) — as Petunia Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Petunia Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — as Petunia Dursley
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — as Petunia Dursley
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