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 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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2026
Pride and Prejudice
TV show Lady Catherine de Bourg
2026
The Education of Jane Cumming
Movie Lady Cumming Gordon
2026
Sense and Sensibility
Movie Mrs. Jennings
2026
Ladies First
Movie Felicity Chase
2025
Park Avenue
Movie Kit
2025
Echo Valley
Movie Leslie Oliver
2025
Hot Milk
Movie Rose
2024
That Christmas
Movie Ms. Trapper (voice)
2024
IF
Movie Grandmother
2022
Andor
TV show Maarva Andor
2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Movie Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Bad Sisters
TV show Angelica Collins
2021
Russia vs. the World
Movie Narrator
2020
Ammonite
Movie Elizabeth Philpot
2020
Kindred
Movie Margaret
2020
Enola Holmes
Movie Miss Harrison