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Home/People/Fiona Shaw
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Born
Jul 10, 1958
Age 67
Place of Birth
County Cork, Ireland
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

67
Movies
31
TV Shows
1
Directed
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Fiona Shaw

Acting

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

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The Education of Jane Cumming

as Lady Cumming Gordon
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Park Avenue

as Kit
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Echo Valley

as Leslie Oliver
2025
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Hot Milk

as Rose
2025
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That Christmas

as Ms. Trapper (voice)
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IF

as Grandmother
2024
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
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Russia vs. the World

as Narrator
2021
Ammonite poster

Ammonite

as Elizabeth Philpot
2020
Kindred poster

Kindred

as Margaret
2020
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Enola Holmes

as Miss Harrison
2020
The Christmas Letter poster

The Christmas Letter

as Ms. Broom
2019
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Out of Innocence

as Catherine Flynn
2019
Colette poster

Colette

as Sido
2018
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Lizzie

as Abby Borden
2018
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The Hippopotamus

as Anne Logan
2017
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The White King

as Kathrin Fitz
2016
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Pixels

as Prime Minister (uncredited)
2015
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Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as Self
2014