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

Filmography

2025
Echo Valley

as Leslie Oliver

Movie
2025
Hot Milk

as Rose

Movie
2024
That Christmas

as Ms. Trapper (voice)

Movie
2024
IF

as Grandmother

Movie
2020
Enola Holmes

as Miss Harrison

Movie
2011
The Tree of Life

as Grandmother

Movie
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Petunia Dursley

Movie
2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

as Petunia Dursley

Movie
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

as Petunia Dursley

Movie
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as Petunia Dursley

Movie
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

as Petunia Dursley

Movie
1995
Persuasion

as Mrs. Croft

Movie
2018
Killing Eve

as Carolyn Martens

TV Show
2014
True Detective

as Rose Aguineau

TV Show