Fiona Shaw

Also Known As: Fiona Mary Wilson, فیونا شاو, فایونا شاو

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: County Cork, Ireland

Adult: No

Birthday: July 10, 1958

Age: 66 years old

Gender: Female

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Butcher Boy
Fracture
Dorian Gray
The Tree of Life
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The Avengers
Undercover Blues
The Black Dahlia
Mountains of the Moon
Catch and Release
Love Song
Monstrous Beauty
Persuasion
Jane Eyre
Park Avenue
RKO 281
Hot Milk
Fireworks for Elspeth
IF
The English Teacher
Maria's Child
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Hedda Gabler
London Kills Me
Richard II
Anna Karenina
Ebb and Flo
Pixels
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The Triumph of Love
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
That Christmas
Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland
The White King
The Rising: 1916
Super Mario Bros.
Mind Games
3 Men and a Little Lady
Echo Valley
Muse of Fire
The Hippopotamus
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
The Last September
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Colette
We Believed
Sacred Hearts
The Waste Land
Titanic Town
Lizzie
Ammonite
Out of Innocence
Enola Holmes
Kindred
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Christmas Letter
Russia vs. the World
Ladies First
The Stalemate
Private View