Fiona Shaw

Cast

Fiona Shaw

Acting

Known for

Acting

Born

1958-07-10

From

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Manny Jacinto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Ladies First
6.0
MOVIE2026

Ladies First

as Felicity Chase

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.9
MOVIE2001

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

as Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7.7
MOVIE2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8.0
MOVIE2004

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

as Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7.7
MOVIE2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Petunia Dursley

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7.7
MOVIE2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

as Petunia Dursley

Pixels
5.8
MOVIE2015

Pixels

as Prime Minister (uncredited)

Enola Holmes
7.2
MOVIE2020

Enola Holmes

as Miss Harrison

IF
7.0
MOVIE2024

IF

as Grandmother

Fracture
7.3
MOVIE2007

Fracture

as Judge Robinson

The Tree of Life
6.7
MOVIE2011

The Tree of Life

as Grandmother

Dorian Gray
6.0
MOVIE2009

Dorian Gray

as Agatha

Super Mario Bros.
4.5
MOVIE1993

Super Mario Bros.

as Lena

That Christmas
7.2
MOVIE2024

That Christmas

as Ms. Trapper (voice)

Echo Valley
6.4
MOVIE2025

Echo Valley

as Leslie Oliver

The Black Dahlia
5.6
MOVIE2006

The Black Dahlia

as Ramona Linscott

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
7.5
MOVIE1989

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

as Dr. Eileen Cole

Jane Eyre
6.9
MOVIE1996

Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Reed

Persuasion
7.2
MOVIE1995

Persuasion

as Mrs. Croft

Ammonite
6.9
MOVIE2020

Ammonite

as Elizabeth Philpot

Lizzie
6.2
MOVIE2018

Lizzie

as Abby Borden

Colette
6.9
MOVIE2018

Colette

as Sido

The English Teacher
5.5
MOVIE2013

The English Teacher

as Narrator

Undercover Blues
6.1
MOVIE1993

Undercover Blues

as Novacek

Catch and Release
5.9
MOVIE2006

Catch and Release

as Mrs. Ellen Douglas

Hot Milk
5.9
MOVIE2025

Hot Milk

as Rose

The Avengers
4.5
MOVIE1998

The Avengers

as Father

3 Men and a Little Lady
5.9
MOVIE1990

3 Men and a Little Lady

as Miss Lomax

RKO 281
6.5
MOVIE1999

RKO 281

as Hedda Hopper

Sense and Sensibility
MOVIE2026

Sense and Sensibility

as Mrs. Jennings

Anna Karenina
6.1
MOVIE1997

Anna Karenina

as Lydia

The Stalemate
MOVIETBA

The Stalemate

Mind Games
6.3
MOVIE2001

Mind Games

as Frances O'Neil

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
7.4
MOVIE2022

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Muse of Fire
6.5
MOVIE2013

Muse of Fire

as Self

Mountains of the Moon
6.5
MOVIE1990

Mountains of the Moon

as Isabel

The Butcher Boy
6.8
MOVIE1998

The Butcher Boy

as Mrs. Nugent

The Hippopotamus
6.4
MOVIE2017

The Hippopotamus

as Anne Logan

Kindred
5.4
MOVIE2020

Kindred

as Margaret

Shakespeare's Sonnets
MOVIE2012

Shakespeare's Sonnets

We Believed
6.6
MOVIE2010

We Believed

as Emilie Ashurst

Park Avenue
7.0
MOVIE2025

Park Avenue

as Kit

Doctor Sleep
5.2
MOVIE2002

Doctor Sleep

as Catherine Lebourg

The Education of Jane Cumming
MOVIE2026

The Education of Jane Cumming

as Lady Cumming Gordon

The White King
5.3
MOVIE2016

The White King

as Kathrin Fitz

Sacred Hearts
4.8
MOVIE1985

Sacred Hearts

as Sister Felicity

Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
MOVIE2007

Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland

as Narrator (voice)

The Last September
5.2
MOVIE2000

The Last September

as Marda Norton

The Triumph of Love
6.1
MOVIE2001

The Triumph of Love

as Leontine

Titanic Town
5.3
MOVIE1998

Titanic Town

as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)

London Kills Me
5.9
MOVIE1991

London Kills Me

as Headley

The Rising: 1916
MOVIETBA

The Rising: 1916

as Countess Markievicz

Ebb and Flo
8.0
MOVIE2005

Ebb and Flo

as Narrator

Fireworks for Elspeth
MOVIE1983

Fireworks for Elspeth

as Elspeth

Maria's Child
3.3
MOVIE1993

Maria's Child

as Pauline

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
7.0
MOVIE2010

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

as Lady Gay Spanker

Twelfth Night
MOVIE1992

Twelfth Night

as Viola (voice)

Monstrous Beauty
MOVIETBA

Monstrous Beauty

as Aphra Ben

Richard II
9.0
MOVIE1997

Richard II

as Richard II

Out of Innocence
6.6
MOVIE2019

Out of Innocence

as Catherine Flynn

Love Song
MOVIE1985

Love Song

as Young Deirdre Walters

The Christmas Letter
4.8
MOVIE2019

The Christmas Letter

as Ms. Broom

Russia vs. the World
MOVIE2021

Russia vs. the World

as Narrator

Hedda Gabler
9.0
MOVIE1993

Hedda Gabler

as Hedda Gabler

Great Poets: In Their Own Words
MOVIE2014

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as Self

The Man Who Shot Christmas
10.0
MOVIE1984

The Man Who Shot Christmas

as Laura

The Waste Land
10.0
MOVIE1995

The Waste Land

as Herself

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