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Fiona Shaw

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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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Films Featuring Fiona Shaw

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

The Butcher Boy

19986.8

Fracture

20077.3

Dorian Gray

20096.0

The Tree of Life

20116.7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

The Avengers

19984.4

Undercover Blues

19936.0

The Black Dahlia

20065.6

Mountains of the Moon

19906.5

Catch and Release

20065.9

Love Song

Love Song

1985

Monstrous Beauty

Persuasion

19957.2

Jane Eyre

19966.9

Park Avenue

20258.5

RKO 281

19996.5

Hot Milk

20255.9

Fireworks for Elspeth

1983

IF

20246.9

The English Teacher

20135.6

Maria's Child

19933.3

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

2014

Hedda Gabler

19939.0

London Kills Me

19915.9

Richard II

19979.0

Anna Karenina

19976.1

Ebb and Flo

Ebb and Flo

20058.0

Pixels

20155.8

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

19897.5

The Triumph of Love

20016.1

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

20227.5

That Christmas

20247.1

Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland

2007

The White King

20165.3

The Rising: 1916

The Rising: 1916

Super Mario Bros.

19934.5

Mind Games

20016.3

3 Men and a Little Lady

19905.8

Echo Valley

20256.5

Muse of Fire

20136.5

The Hippopotamus

20176.4

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

20107.0

The Last September

20005.2

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Colette

20186.9

We Believed

20106.6

Sacred Hearts

19854.8

The Waste Land

199510.0

Titanic Town

19985.3

Lizzie

20186.2

Ammonite

20206.9

Out of Innocence

20196.6

Enola Holmes

20207.2

Kindred

20205.5

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

The Christmas Letter

20194.8

Russia vs. the World

2021

Ladies First

20266.0

The Stalemate

The Stalemate

Doctor Sleep

20025.2

Sense and Sensibility

2026

Twelfth Night

1992

The Man Who Shot Christmas

The Man Who Shot Christmas

198410.0

The Education of Jane Cumming

2027