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Irish actress (born 1958)
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Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. Known for 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 the 1990 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). She received 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 Tobin 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 in 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, as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her role as a Counselor 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).

Shaw was born Fiona Mary Wilson on 10 July 1958 in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, and ophthalmic surgeon Denis Joseph Wilson (1922–2011), who wed in 1952. They maintained a home in Montenotte. She attended secondary school at Scoil Mhuire in Cork, and received her degree in philosophy at University College Cork. Shaw studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, graduating in 1982 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).

In 1983, she starred as Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals (1983). Her theatrical roles include Celia in As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), Lady Franjul in The New Inn (1987), Young Woman in Machinal (1993), for which she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress. Shaw notably played the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. She performed T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York to great acclaim in 1996, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One Person Show for her performance. Winnie in Happy Days (2007), and the title roles in Electra (1988), The Good Person of Sechuan (1989), Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1998) and Medea (2000). In 2009, Shaw collaborated with Deborah Warner again, taking the lead role in Tony Kushner's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. In a 2002 article for The Daily Telegraph, Rupert Christiansen described their professional relationship as "surely one of the most richly creative partnerships in theatrical history." Other collaborations between the two women include productions of Brecht's The Good Woman of Szechuan and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, the latter was adapted for television. In 2010, Shaw appeared in The Waste Land at Wilton's Music Hall, and in a National Theatre revival of London Assurance. In November 2010, Shaw starred in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan. The play was also staged in New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011. In 2012, Shaw appeared in the National Theatre revival of Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker. The world's largest solo theatre festival, United Solo, recognised her performance in The Testament of Mary on Broadway with the 2013 United Solo Special Award.

In 1984, Shaw played Miss Morrison in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode The Adventure of the Crooked Man. She appeared in My Left Foot (1989), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Undercover Blues (1993), Persuasion (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), The Avengers (1998), Gormenghast (2000), and five of the Harry Potter films in which she played Harry Potter's aunt. Shaw had a brief but key role in Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia (2006). Shaw appeared in season four of the American TV show True Blood. Shaw's character, Marnie Stonebrook, has been described as an underachieving palm reader who is spiritually possessed by an actual witch. In 2013, she starred as Catherine Greenshaw in Agatha Christie's Marple episode "Greenshaw's Folly". In 2018, Shaw began portraying Carolyn Martens, the head of MI6's Russia focused branch, in BBC America's Killing Eve. For her performance, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series. Later the same year, she played a senior MI6 officer in Mrs Wilson. For her role as a Counselor in Phoebe Waller Bridge series Fleabag (2019) she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. Shaw starred in the Star Wars television series Andor as the titular character's adoptive mother, Maarva Andor.

Shaw is a lesbian, although she had dated men for many years before realising her sexual orientation, stating "It was a shock. I was full of self hatred and thought I would come back into the fold shortly. But I just didn't." From 2002 to 2005, Shaw was the partner of English actress Saffron Burrows. She met Sri Lankan economist Sonali Deraniyagala after reading Deraniyagala's memoir, and they married in 2018. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Year Title Role Notes 1984 The Man Who Shot Christmas Laura Short film 1985 Sacred Hearts Sister Felicity 1989 My Left Foot Dr. Eileen Cole 1990 Mountains of the Moon Isabel Three Men and a Little Lady Miss Lomax 1991 London Kills Me Headley 1992 The Big Fish Unknown role Short film Ridin' High: The Video Dancer Direct to Video 1993 Super Mario Bros. Lena Undercover Blues Novacek 1995 Persuasion Mrs. Croft The Waste Land Unknown role Short film 1996 Jane Eyre Mrs. Reede 1997 Anna Karenina Lydia The Butcher Boy Mrs. Nugent 1998 The Avengers Father 1999 The Last September Marda Norton 2001 The Triumph of Love Leontine Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Petunia Dursley 2002 Close Your Eyes Catherine Lebourg Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Petunia Dursley 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Petunia Dursley 2005 Midsummer Dream The Witches Voice; English version 2006 The Black Dahlia Ramona Linscott Catch and Release Mrs. Douglas 2007 Fracture Judge Robinson Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Petunia Dursley 2009 Dorian Gray Agatha 2010 National Theatre Live: London Assurance Lady Gay Spanker We Believed Emilie Ashurst Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Petunia Dursley Tell Me Martha Short film 2011 The Tree of Life Grandmother 2013 The English Teacher Narrator The Daisy Chain Narrator Short film 2015 Pixels Prime Minister Uncredited 2016 The White King Kathrin Fitz Out of Innocence Catherine Flynn 2017 The Hippopotamus Anne Logan 2018 Lizzie Abby Borden Colette Sido 2020 Ammonite Elizabeth Philpot Enola Holmes Miss Harrison Kindred Margaret 2024 IF Bea's Grandmother Post production Hot Milk Post production That Christmas Ms. Trapper (voice) Post production

Year Title Role Notes 1983 All for Love Elspeth Episode: "Fireworks for Elspeth" 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Miss Morrison Episode: "The Crooked Man" 1985 Love Song Young Deirdre TV movie 1990 Theatre Night Clytemnestra Episode: "Iphigenia at Aulis" 1991 For the Greater Good Gillian Savage 2 episodes 1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Viola (voice) Episode: "Twelfth Night" 1992,1995 Screen Two Pauline Episode: "Maria's Child" Mrs. Croft Episode: "Persuasion" 1993,1997 Performance Hedda Gabler Episode: "Hedda Gabler" Richard II Episode: "Richard II" 1994 Seascape Unknown role TV movie 1999 RKO 281 Hedda Hopper TV movie 2000 Gormenghast Irma Prunesquallor Miniseries (4 episodes) 2001 Mind Games Frances O'Neil TV movie The Seventh Stream Mrs. Gourdon TV movie 2005 Empire Fulvia Miniseries (3 episodes) 2007 Trial & Retribution Jo Wilson QC Episode: "Mirror Image: Part 2" 2009 Dido and Aeneas – Didon et Énée Comédienne dans le prologue TV movie 2011 True Blood Marnie Stonebrook Recurring role (12 episodes) 2013 Marple Miss Katherine Greenshaw Episode: "Greenshaw's Folly" 2014 Masterpiece Mystery Miss Katherine Greenshaw Episode: "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple VII: Greenshaw's Folly" 2015 Lumen D'Laria TV movie 2015–17 Sarah & Duck Music Lady 2 episodes 2016 Maigret Sets a Trap Madam Moncin TV movie Channel Zero Marla Painter Series regular (6 episodes) 2017 Emerald City Mombi 2 episodes Inside No. 9 Jean Episode: "Private View" Penn Zero: Part Time Hero Hedwin Voice; Episode: "Mr. Rippen" 2018 Mrs. Wilson Coleman Miniseries (3 episodes) 3Below: Tales of Arcadia Birdie / Halcon Voice; Episode: "Flying the Coop" 2018–22 Killing Eve Carolyn Martens Series regular (31 episodes) 2019 Fleabag Counsellor Episode: "#2.2" 2021 Baptiste Emma Chambers Series regular (6 episodes) 2022 Andor Maarva Andor Series regular (5 episodes) 2024 True Detective: Night Country Rose Aguineau Series regular (5 episodes)