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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw

Birthday: 1958-07-10 | Place of Birth: County Cork, Ireland

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Park Avenue

as    Kit

2025
Echo Valley

as    Leslie Oliver

2025
Hot Milk

as    Rose

2024
IF

as    Grandmother

2024
That Christmas

as    Ms. Trapper (voice)

2024
True Detective: Night Country

as    Rose Aguineau

2022
Killing Eve

as    Carolyn Martens

2022
Andor

as    Maarva Andor

2021
Russia vs. the World

as    Narrator

2020
Ammonite

as    Elizabeth Philpot

2020
Kindred

as    Margaret

2020
Enola Holmes

as    Miss Harrison

2019
Out of Innocence

as    Catherine Flynn

2019
Baptiste

as    Emma Chambers

2019
The Christmas Letter

as    Ms. Broom

2018
Lizzie

as    Abby Borden

2018
Killing Eve

as    Carolyn Martens

2018
Killing Eve: Production Diary

as    Carolyn Martens

2018
Killing Eve

as    Carolyn Martens

2018
Mrs Wilson

as    Coleman

2018
Colette

as    Sido

2017
The Hippopotamus

as    Anne Logan

2017
2016
The White King

as    Kathrin Fitz

2016
Maigret Sets a Trap

as    Madame Moncin

2016
Maigret Sets A Trap

as    Madame Moncin