Fiona Shaw

Born: 1958-07-10

Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook in the fourth season of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22). For her performance in Killing Eve, Shaw won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performances in the second seasons of Killing Eve and Fleabag, she received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series respectively. For the third season of Killing Eve, she was again nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Shaw has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She won the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Actress for various roles, including Electra, the 1994 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Machinal, and the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land. Her other stage work includes playing the title role in Medea in the West End and on Broadway (2001–2002). She was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.


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That Christmas

as Ms. Trapper (voice)
Released: 2024-11-27

It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm...

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as Petunia Dursley
Released: 2001-11-16

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his...

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as Grandmother
Released: 2024-05-08

After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical...

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as Petunia Dursley
Released: 2002-11-13

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start...

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as Petunia Dursley
Released: 2004-05-31

Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of...

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as Petunia Dursley
Released: 2010-11-17

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the...

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as Petunia Dursley
Released: 2007-07-08

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings...

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Pixels

as Prime Minister (uncredited)
Released: 2015-07-16

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've...

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The Tree of Life

as Grandmother
Released: 2011-05-17

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of...

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Fracture

as Judge Robinson
Released: 2007-04-19

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut...

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Enola Holmes

as Miss Harrison
Released: 2020-09-23

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to...

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Super Mario Bros.

as Lena
Released: 1993-05-28

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved...

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Persuasion

as Mrs. Croft
Released: 1995-05-01

Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break...

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The Black Dahlia

as Ramona Linscott
Released: 2006-09-15

In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism,...

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The Avengers

as Father
Released: 1998-08-13

British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot...

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The English Teacher

as Narrator
Released: 2013-05-16

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an...

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Ammonite

as Elizabeth Philpot
Released: 2020-11-13

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to...

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

as Dr. Eileen Cole
Released: 1989-04-07

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class...

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Catch and Release

as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
Released: 2006-10-20

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best...

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Anna Karenina

as Lydia
Released: 1997-04-04

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an...

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Dorian Gray

as Agatha
Released: 2009-09-09

Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray...

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as Miss Lomax
Released: 1990-11-21

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her...

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The Butcher Boy

as Mrs. Nugent
Released: 1998-02-20

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with...

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Undercover Blues

as Novacek
Released: 1993-09-10

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a...

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Lizzie

as Abby Borden
Released: 2018-09-14

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a...

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Colette

as Sido
Released: 2018-09-21

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette...

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Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Reed
Released: 1996-01-20

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in...

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The Hippopotamus

as Anne Logan
Released: 2017-03-08

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of...

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Mountains of the Moon

as Isabel
Released: 1990-02-16

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find...

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RKO 281

as Hedda Hopper
Released: 2000-04-07

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater,...

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Kindred

as Margaret
Released: 2020-11-06

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon...

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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 2022-09-08

Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.

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The White King

as Kathrin Fitz
Released: 2016-06-18

Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside...

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Muse of Fire

as Self
Released: 2013-09-26

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about...

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The Triumph of Love

as Leontine
Released: 2001-09-07

A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince...

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National Theatre Live: London Assurance

as Lady Gay Spanker
Released: 2010-06-24

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a...

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Maria's Child

as Pauline
Released: 1993-03-28

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep...

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We Believed

as Emilie Ashurst
Released: 2010-11-12

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three...

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The Last September

as Marda Norton
Released: 2000-04-28

In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are...

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Echo Valley

as Jessie Oliver
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Reeling from a personal tragedy, Kate spends her days boarding and training horses at Echo...

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The Christmas Letter

as Ms. Broom
Released: 2019-12-22

Christmas-mad kid Henry tries to bring some much-needed cheer into a lonely old lady’s life in...

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Titanic Town

as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
Released: 1998-08-08

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than...

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Sacred Hearts

as Sister Felicity
Released: 1985-11-01

A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin...

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Mind Games

as Frances O'Neil
Released: 2001-01-06

A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic...

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Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as uncredited
Released: 2014-08-10

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some...

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Monstrous Beauty

as Aphra Ben
Released:

Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in...

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Out of Innocence

as Catherine Flynn
Released: 2019-04-12

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did...

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Hot Milk

as Rose Papastergiadis
Released: 2025-04-28

Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the...

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London Kills Me

as Headley
Released: 1991-12-13

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost,...

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

as uncredited
Released: 2012-07-18

Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this...

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Fireworks for Elspeth

as Elspeth
Released: 1983-10-02

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and...

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Killing Eve

as Carolyn Martens
Released: 2018-04-08

Being recruited by an intelligence agency puts Eve in the direct path of Villanelle, an...

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Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2007-07-30

Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the...

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Richard II

as Richard II
Released: 1997-01-01

The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity...

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Hedda Gabler

as Hedda Gabler
Released: 1993-03-27

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman....

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The Waste Land

as Herself
Released: 1995-03-24

Directed by Deborah Warner

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Russia vs. the World

as Narrator
Released: 2021-01-01

Fiona Shaw narrates this exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody...

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梅格雷的陷阱

as 曼森夫人 Madame Moncin
Released: 2016-03-28

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True Detective

as Rose Aguineau
First aired: 2014-01-12

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which...

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True Blood

as Marnie Stonebrook
First aired: 2008-09-07

Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic, blood vampires have progressed from...

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Agatha Christie's Marple

as Miss Katherine Greenshaw
First aired: 2004-12-12

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...

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Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee
First aired: 1956-04-01

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...

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Killing Eve

as Carolyn Martens
First aired: 2018-04-08

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go...

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Sherlock Holmes

as Miss Morrison
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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Inside No. 9

as Jean
First aired: 2014-02-05

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

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Star Wars: Andor

as Maarva Andor
First aired: 2022-09-21

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference...

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Fleabag

as Counsellor
First aired: 2016-07-21

A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman,...

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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

as Hedwin (voice)
First aired: 2014-12-05

Penn Zero is not your average kid - every day he's zapped into another dimension with his...

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Trial & Retribution

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-10-19

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began...

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Emerald City

as Mombi
First aired: 2017-01-06

In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and her K9 police dog are transported...

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Performance

as Hedda Gabler
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Performance

as Richard II
First aired: 1991-02-22

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

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Channel Zero

as Marla Painter
First aired: 2016-10-11

A horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.

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Maigret

as Madame Moncin
First aired: 2016-03-28

Adaptation of the novels written by Georges Simenon featuring his fictional French police...

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Mrs Wilson

as Coleman
First aired: 2018-11-27

After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison...

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Baptiste

as Emma Chambers
First aired: 2019-02-17

Battered by life, detective Julien Baptiste will investigate to the brink of obsession. Whatever...

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Viola (voice)
First aired: 1992-11-09

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...

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Empire

as Fulvia
First aired: 2005-06-28

As Conqueror Julius Caesar is drawing his last breath, he swears Tyrannus—Rome's finest...

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Gormenghast

as Irma Prunesquallor
First aired: 2000-01-17

At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than...

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For the Greater Good

as Gillian Savage
First aired: 1991-03-20

While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish...

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Simon Schama's John Donne

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-05-26

Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne.

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The Last Machine

as uncredited
First aired: 1995-01-07

A documentary series about the early period of cinema up to the year 1913.

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The Hand of Stalin

as Self - Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1990-10-16

Examining the legacy of Stalin's 25 years of crimes against humanity through the experiences of...

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Ebb and Flo

as Narrator
First aired:

Based on the books by Jane Simmons, this gentle animated series follows five-year-old Flo and...

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