
Fiona Shaw
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings
2025Park Avenue as Kit
2025Echo Valley as Leslie Oliver
2025Hot Milk as Rose
2024That Christmas as Ms. Trapper (voice)
2024IF as Grandmother
2022Andor as Maarva Andor
2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Bad Sisters as Angelica Collins
2021Russia vs. the World as Narrator
2020Ammonite as Elizabeth Philpot
2020Kindred as Margaret
2020Enola Holmes as Miss Harrison
2019The Christmas Letter as Ms. Broom
2019Out of Innocence as Catherine Flynn
2019Baptiste as Emma Chambers
2018Mrs Wilson as Coleman
2018Colette as Sido
2018Lizzie as Abby Borden
2018Killing Eve as Carolyn Martens
2017The Hippopotamus as Anne Logan
2017Emerald City as Mombi
2016Channel Zero as Marla Painter
2016Fleabag as Counsellor
2016The White King as Kathrin Fitz
2016Maigret as Madame Moncin
2015Pixels as Prime Minister (uncredited)
2014Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Hedwin (voice)
2014Great Poets: In Their Own Words as Self
2014Inside No. 9 as Jean
2014True Detective as Rose Aguineau
2013Muse of Fire as Self
2013The English Teacher as Narrator
2012Shakespeare's Sonnets
2011The Tree of Life as Grandmother
2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Petunia Dursley
2010We Believed as Emilie Ashurst
2010National Theatre Live: London Assurance as Lady Gay Spanker
2009Dorian Gray as Agatha
2009Simon Schama's John Donne
2008True Blood as Marnie Stonebrook
2007Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland as Narrator (voice)
2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Petunia Dursley
2007Fracture as Judge Robinson
2006Catch and Release as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
2006The Black Dahlia as Ramona Linscott
2005Empire as Fulvia
2005Ebb and Flo as Narrator
2005Ebb and Flo as Narrator
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Petunia Dursley
2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Petunia Dursley
2002Great Britons as Herself
2002Doctor Sleep as Lebourg
2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Petunia Dursley
2001The Triumph of Love as Leontine
2001Mind Games as Frances O'Neil
2000The Last September as Marda Norton
2000RKO 281 as Hedda Hopper
2000Gormenghast as Irma Prunesquallor
1998The Avengers as Father
1998Titanic Town as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
1998The Butcher Boy as Mrs. Nugent
1997Trial & Retribution
1997Ruby as Self
1997Anna Karenina as Lydia
1997Richard II as Richard II
1996Jane Eyre as Mrs. Reed
1995Persuasion as Mrs. Croft
1995The Waste Land as Herself
1995The Last Machine
1993Undercover Blues as Novacek
1993Super Mario Bros. as Lena
1993Maria's Child as Pauline
1993Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Viola (voice)
1992Twelfth Night as Viola (voice)
1991London Kills Me as Headley
1991Performance as Hedda Gabler
1991Performance as Richard II
1991For the Greater Good as Gillian Savage
19903 Men and a Little Lady as Miss Lomax
1990The Hand of Stalin as Self - Narrator (voice)
1990Mountains of the Moon as Isabel
1989The Simpsons as Mrs. McCormick (voice)
1989My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown as Dr. Eileen Cole
1985Sacred Hearts as Sister Felicity
1985Theatre Night
1985Love Song as Young Deirdre Walters
1984The Man Who Shot Christmas as Laura
1984Sherlock Holmes as Miss Morrison
1983Fireworks for Elspeth as Elspeth
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
—The Stalemate
—Pride & Prejudice as Lady Catherine de Bourg
—The Rising: 1916 as Countess Markievicz
—Ladies First
—Monstrous Beauty as Aphra Ben
—Scotch Verdict









