Cast & creator
Fiona Shaw
Best known for The Simpsons, True Detective, Tony Awards
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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film credits
33
television credits
100
1956–2026 · acting roles
7.0
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (101)
Showing 101 of 101 credits
The Simpsons
Mrs. McCormick (voice)
1989
True Detective
Rose Aguineau
2014
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
True Blood
Marnie Stonebrook
2008
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Aunt Petunia Dursley
2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Petunia Dursley
2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Petunia Dursley
2004
Andor
Maarva Andor
2022
Sherlock Holmes
Miss Morrison
1984
Killing Eve
Carolyn Martens
2018
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Petunia Dursley
2007
Agatha Christie's Marple
Miss Katherine Greenshaw
2004
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Petunia Dursley
2010
Inside No. 9
Jean
2014
Performance
Hedda Gabler
1991Performance
Richard II
1991
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Hedwin (voice)
2014
Fleabag
Counsellor
2016
Bad Sisters
Angelica Collins
2022
Pixels
Prime Minister (uncredited)
2015
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
2026
Enola Holmes
Miss Harrison
2020
Ladies First
Felicity Chase
2026
Channel Zero
Marla Painter
2016
IF
Grandmother
2024
Fracture
Judge Robinson
2007
Echo Valley
Leslie Oliver
2025
Emerald City
Mombi
2017
The Tree of Life
Grandmother
2011
Ruby
Self
1997
Theatre Night
Clytemnestra
1985
That Christmas
Ms. Trapper (voice)
2024
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Viola (voice)
1992
Empire
Fulvia
2005
Dorian Gray
Agatha
2009
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Dr. Eileen Cole
1989
Mrs Wilson
Coleman
2018
Baptiste
Emma Chambers
2019
Super Mario Bros.
Lena
1993
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Miss Morrison
1984All for Love
Elspeth Erskine
1982
Maigret
Madame Moncin
2016
Catch and Release
Mrs. Ellen Douglas
2006
Gormenghast
Irma Prunesquallor
2000
The Black Dahlia
Ramona Linscott
2006
Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourg
2026
Colette
Sido
2018
3 Men and a Little Lady
Miss Lomax
1990
The Avengers
Father
1998
The Hand of Stalin
Self - Narrator (voice)
1990
Lizzie
Abby Borden
2018
Persuasion
Mrs. Croft
1995
The English Teacher
Narrator
2013
Anna Karenina
Lydia
1997
Ammonite
Elizabeth Philpot
2020
Hot Milk
Rose
2025
Undercover Blues
Novacek
1993
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Reed
1996
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Mind Games
Frances O'Neil
2001
Mountains of the Moon
Isabel
1990
For the Greater Good
Gillian Savage
1991
Doctor Sleep
Catherine Lebourg
2002
The Butcher Boy
Mrs. Nugent
1998
The Education of Jane Cumming
Lady Cumming Gordon
2026
Great Britons
Herself
2002
Muse of Fire
Self
2013
Sacred Hearts
Sister Felicity
1985
Park Avenue
Kit
2025
The Hippopotamus
Anne Logan
2017
RKO 281
Hedda Hopper
1999
London Kills Me
Headley
1991
Simon Schama's John Donne
2009
Mitchell & Kenyon in Ireland
Narrator (voice)
2007
The Last Machine
1995
The Triumph of Love
Leontine
2001
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Lady Gay Spanker
2010
Kindred
Margaret
2020
Ebb and Flo
Narrator
2005The Man Who Shot Christmas
Laura
1984
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Self
2014
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Director
2013
Titanic Town
Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
1998
The White King
Kathrin Fitz
2016
The Last September
Marda Norton
2000
Monstrous Beauty
Aphra Ben
Twelfth Night
Viola (voice)
1992The Rising: 1916
Countess Markievicz
Maria's Child
Pauline
1993
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
Richard II
Richard II
1997
We Believed
Emilie Ashurst
2010
Russia vs. the World
Narrator
2021
The Christmas Letter
Ms. Broom
2019
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
1993
Out of Innocence
Catherine Flynn
2019Love Song
Young Deirdre Walters
1985
Fireworks for Elspeth
Elspeth
1983The Stalemate
Ebb and Flo
Narrator
2005
The Waste Land
Herself
1995