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

• 2026Ladies First — Felicity Chase
• Pride and Prejudice — Lady Catherine de Bourg
• 2026Sense and Sensibility — Mrs. Jennings
• 2026The Education of Jane Cumming — Lady Cumming Gordon
• 2025Echo Valley — Leslie Oliver
• 2025Hot Milk — Rose
• 2025Park Avenue — Kit
• 2024IF — Grandmother
• 2024That Christmas — Ms. Trapper (voice)
• Andor — Maarva Andor
• 2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Bad Sisters — Angelica Collins
• 2021Russia vs. the World — Narrator
• 2020Ammonite — Elizabeth Philpot
• 2020Enola Holmes — Miss Harrison
• 2020Kindred — Margaret
• Baptiste — Emma Chambers
• 2019Out of Innocence — Catherine Flynn
• 2019The Christmas Letter — Ms. Broom
• 2018Colette — Sido
• Killing Eve — Carolyn Martens
• 2018Lizzie — Abby Borden
• Mrs Wilson — Coleman
• Emerald City — Mombi
• 2017The Hippopotamus — Anne Logan
• Channel Zero — Marla Painter
• Fleabag — Counsellor
• Maigret — Madame Moncin
• 2016The White King — Kathrin Fitz
• 2015Pixels — Prime Minister (uncredited)
• Inside No. 9 — Jean
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — Hedwin (voice)
• True Detective — Rose Aguineau
• 2013Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin — Director
• 2013The English Teacher — Narrator
• 2012Shakespeare's Sonnets
• 2011The Tree of Life — Grandmother
• 2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Petunia Dursley
• 2010National Theatre Live: London Assurance — Lady Gay Spanker
• 2010We Believed — Emilie Ashurst
• 2009Dorian Gray — Agatha
• Simon Schama's John Donne
• True Blood — Marnie Stonebrook
• 2007Fracture — Judge Robinson
• 2007Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Petunia Dursley
• 2007Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Catch and Release — Mrs. Ellen Douglas
• 2006The Black Dahlia — Ramona Linscott
• 2005Ebb and Flo — Narrator
• Ebb and Flo — Narrator
• Empire — Fulvia
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Miss Katherine Greenshaw
• 2004Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Petunia Dursley
• 2002Doctor Sleep — Catherine Lebourg
• 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Petunia Dursley
• 2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — Aunt Petunia Dursley
• 2001Mind Games — Frances O'Neil
• 2001The Triumph of Love — Leontine
• Gormenghast — Irma Prunesquallor
• 2000The Last September — Marda Norton
• 1999RKO 281 — Hedda Hopper
• 1998The Avengers — Father
• 1998The Butcher Boy — Mrs. Nugent
• 1998Titanic Town — Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
• 1997Anna Karenina — Lydia
• 1997Richard II — Richard II
• 1996Jane Eyre — Mrs. Reed
• 1995Persuasion — Mrs. Croft
• The Last Machine
• 1993Hedda Gabler — Hedda Gabler
• 1993Maria's Child — Pauline
• 1993Super Mario Bros. — Lena
• 1993Undercover Blues — Novacek
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Viola (voice)
• 1992Twelfth Night — Viola (voice)
• For the Greater Good — Gillian Savage
• 1991London Kills Me — Headley
• Performance — Hedda Gabler, Richard II
• 19903 Men and a Little Lady — Miss Lomax
• 1990Mountains of the Moon — Isabel
• 1989My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown — Dr. Eileen Cole
• The Simpsons — Mrs. McCormick (voice)
• 1985Love Song — Young Deirdre Walters
• 1985Sacred Hearts — Sister Felicity
• Theatre Night — Clytemnestra
• Sherlock Holmes — Miss Morrison
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Miss Morrison
• 1984The Man Who Shot Christmas — Laura
• 1983Fireworks for Elspeth — Elspeth
• All for Love — Elspeth Erskine
• Monstrous Beauty — Aphra Ben
• The Rising: 1916 — Countess Markievicz
• The Stalemate

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2014Great Poets: In Their Own Words — Self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• Great Britons — Herself
• Ruby — Self
• 1995The Waste Land — Herself
• The Hand of Stalin — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee