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Fiona Shaw
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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 Hap…
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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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Fiona Shaw's Filmography
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The Education of Jane Cumming
as Lady Cumming Gordon
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
Ladies First
as Felicity Chase
Park Avenue
as Kit
Echo Valley
as Leslie Oliver
Hot Milk
as Rose
That Christmas
as Ms. Trapper (voice)
IF
as Grandmother
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Russia vs. the World
as Narrator
Ammonite
as Elizabeth Philpot
Kindred
as Margaret
Enola Holmes
as Miss Harrison
The Christmas Letter
as Ms. Broom (voice)
Out of Innocence
as Catherine Flynn
Colette
as Sido
Lizzie
as Abby Borden
The Hippopotamus
as Anne Logan
The White King
as Kathrin Fitz
Pixels
as Prime Minister (uncredited)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
as Self
Muse of Fire
as Self
The English Teacher
as Narrator
Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Tree of Life
as Grandmother
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Petunia Dursley
We Believed
as Emilie Ashurst
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
as Lady Gay Spanker
Dorian Gray
as Agatha
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
as Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Petunia Dursley
Fracture
as Judge Robinson
Catch and Release
as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
The Black Dahlia
as Ramona Linscott
No Poster
Ebb and Flo
as Narrator
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Petunia Dursley
Doctor Sleep
as Catherine Lebourg
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Aunt Petunia Dursley
The Triumph of Love
as Leontine
Mind Games
as Frances O'Neil
The Last September
as Marda Norton
RKO 281
as Hedda Hopper
The Avengers
as Father
Titanic Town
as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
The Butcher Boy
as Mrs. Nugent
Anna Karenina
as Lydia
Richard II
as Richard II
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Reed
Persuasion
as Mrs. Croft
The Waste Land
as Herself
Undercover Blues
as Novacek
Super Mario Bros.
as Lena
Maria's Child
as Pauline
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
Twelfth Night
as Viola (voice)
London Kills Me
as Headley
3 Men and a Little Lady
as Miss Lomax
Mountains of the Moon
as Isabel
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
as Dr. Eileen Cole
Sacred Hearts
as Sister Felicity
No Poster
Love Song
as Young Deirdre Walters
No Poster
The Man Who Shot Christmas
as Laura
Fireworks for Elspeth
as Elspeth
Monstrous Beauty
as Aphra Ben
Maigret Sets A Trap
as 演员
No Poster
The Stalemate
No Poster
The Rising: 1916
as Countess Markievicz