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 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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5861 |
| Birthday | 1958-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | County Cork, Ireland |
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2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Fracture
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Dorian Gray
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The Tree of Life
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Persuasion
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Jane Eyre
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Park Avenue
7/1
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Hot Milk
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The English Teacher
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Maria's Child
3.333/3
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Hedda Gabler
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9/3
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2005
Ebb and Flo
8/1
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Pixels
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The Triumph of Love
6.143/21
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3 Men and a Little Lady
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Echo Valley
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Muse of Fire
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2002
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Colette
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Sacred Hearts
4.8/4
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1995
The Waste Land
10/2
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Titanic Town
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Lizzie
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Ammonite
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6.6/5
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Enola Holmes
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Kindred
5.4/31
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2012
Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The Christmas Letter
4.8/5
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2021
Russia vs. the World
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2026
Ladies First
0/0
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The Stalemate
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5.227/64
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Sense and Sensibility
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Twelfth Night
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The Man Who Shot Christmas
10/1
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The Education of Jane Cumming
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