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).

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Fiona Shaw Movies

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Enola Holmes (2020)

Adventure Crime Mystery
Enola Holmes has grown up far from the rigid conventions of Victorian England, raised by an eccentric mother who taught her to think freely and fight hard. When that mother...
Score 7.2
2

The Tree of Life (2011)

Drama Fantasy
Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner moves between a 1950s Texas childhood and a grown man's fractured memory, tracing how one son carries his father's severity and his mother's grace into...
Score 6.7
3

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Adventure Fantasy
Without the shelter of Hogwarts, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are truly on their own. Grieving, hunted, and increasingly fractured by paranoia, the three friends set out across a bleak and...
Score 7.7
4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Adventure Fantasy
Back at Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry finds the wizarding establishment has chosen denial over truth. The Ministry refuses to acknowledge Voldemort's return, and the school has been handed...
Score 7.7
5

Fracture (2007)

Thriller
Ted Crawford shoots his wife, calls the police, and hands over the gun. The case looks airtight, almost insultingly so, for Willy Beachum, a sharp young prosecutor already angling toward...
Score 7.3
6

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Adventure Fantasy
Third year at Hogwarts arrives with a darker mood than Harry has known before. Dementors patrol the school grounds, draining joy from anyone who wanders too close. A convicted murderer...
Score 8.0
7

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Adventure Fantasy
Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts begins with a dire warning from a peculiar house-elf named Dobby, who will do anything to keep Harry away from school. He should have...
Score 7.7
8

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)

Adventure Fantasy
Eleven years spent sleeping under a staircase, eating scraps of attention from relatives who resent his existence. Then a letter arrives, and another, and hundreds more, and suddenly Harry Potter...
Score 7.9
9

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Adventure Comedy Family
Two Brooklyn plumbers named Mario and Luigi stumble into a parallel dimension where dinosaurs never went extinct and instead built a grimy, overcrowded city ruled by the tyrannical Koopa. Far...
Score 4.5

Fiona Shaw TV Shows

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True Detective (2014)

Drama Mystery
Each season of True Detective drops new detectives into a new crime, a new landscape, and a new web of moral compromise. The anthology format lets the show reinvent itself...
Score 8.3

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Fiona Shaw are Enola Holmes, The Tree of Life, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
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Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 10 titles starring Fiona Shaw, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Fiona Shaw maintains a strong average user rating of 7.3 out of 10 across all tracked titles.