Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw

Born 1958-07-10 (age 67) County Cork, Ireland
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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

Ladies First
Ladies First

2026

as Felicity Chase

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Pixels
Pixels

2015

as Prime Minister (uncredited)

IF
IF

2024

as Grandmother

Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes

2020

as Miss Harrison

Fracture
Fracture

2007

as Judge Robinson

The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life

2011

as Grandmother

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.

1993

as Lena

Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray

2009

as Agatha

Persuasion
Persuasion

1995

as Mrs. Croft

Echo Valley
Echo Valley

2025

as Leslie Oliver

That Christmas
That Christmas

2024

as Ms. Trapper (voice)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia

2006

as Ramona Linscott

Ammonite
Ammonite

2020

as Elizabeth Philpot

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

1996

as Mrs. Reed