Fiona Shaw

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.

On screen

  • The Education of Jane Cumming
  • Ladies First
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Park Avenue
  • Hot Milk
  • Echo Valley
  • IF
  • That Christmas
  • Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
  • Russia vs. the World
  • Ammonite
  • Enola Holmes
  • Kindred
  • Out of Innocence
  • The Christmas Letter
  • Colette
  • Lizzie
  • The Hippopotamus
  • The White King
  • Pixels
  • Great Poets: In Their Own Words
  • The English Teacher
  • Muse of Fire
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • The Tree of Life
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  • National Theatre Live: London Assurance
  • We Believed
  • Dorian Gray
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Fracture
  • Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
  • The Black Dahlia
  • Catch and Release
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Doctor Sleep
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • The Triumph of Love
  • Mind Games
  • The Last September
  • RKO 281
  • The Butcher Boy
  • The Avengers
  • Titanic Town
  • Richard II
  • Anna Karenina
  • Jane Eyre
  • Persuasion
  • The Waste Land
  • Undercover Blues
  • Maria's Child
  • Hedda Gabler
  • Super Mario Bros.
  • Twelfth Night
  • London Kills Me
  • Mountains of the Moon
  • 3 Men and a Little Lady
  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
  • Sacred Hearts
  • Fireworks for Elspeth
  • Monstrous Beauty

Behind the camera

  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

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