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Fiona Shaw CBE (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),[1][2] and Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–22).

Fiona Shaw CBE
Shaw in 2011
Born	Fiona Mary Wilson (1958-07-10) 10 July 1958 (age 64) Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
Occupation	Actress theatre director
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Hugh Shaw (divorced) Sonali Deraniyagala ​ (m. 2018)​
Partner	Saffron Burrows (2002–2005)

For her performance in Killing Eve, Shaw won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.[3] 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.[4] For the third season of Killing Eve, she was again nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.[5]

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.[6] In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[7]

Early life

Shaw was born Fiona Mary Wilson on 10 July 1958 in Cobh,[8] County Cork, the daughter of physicist Mary T. (Flynn) Wilson[9] and ophthalmic surgeon Denis Joseph Wilson (1922–2011), who wed in 1952.[10] They maintained a home in Montenotte.[11][12] She attended secondary school at Scoil Mhuire in Cork, and received her degree in philosophy at University College Cork.

Shaw's father, Denis Wilson, studied medicine at University College Cork where he played rugby. He worked for a short time as a GP in London before training to be an ophthalmologist as the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1960. On his return to Cork he was appointed to the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, where he worked until his retirement, which coincided with the transfer of the eye unit to Cork University Hospital. He taught at UCC and the RCSI. After retiring he wrote De Iron Trote, a history of the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and continued his interest in the arts by studying for a Diploma in Art History at UCC.[13]

Career

Shaw trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and was part of a "new wave" of actors to emerge from RADA. She received much acclaim as Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals (1983).[14] 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, 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). 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.[15] She played Miss Morrison in the 1984 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" and Catherine Greenshaw in Agatha Christie's Marple episode "Greenshaw's Folly" in 2013.

Shaw notably played the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. Shaw has collaborated with Warner on a number of occasions, on both stage and screen. Shaw has also worked in film and television, including 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).

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."[16] 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.[17]

Shaw appeared in The Waste Land at Wilton's Music Hall in January 2010 and in a National Theatre revival of London Assurance in March 2010.[18] In November 2010, Shaw starred in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan.[19][20] The play was also staged in New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2011.[21] 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.[22]

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.[23] 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.[24] She currently stars in the Star Wars television series Andor, a prequel to the movie Rogue One, as the titular character's adoptive mother, Maarva Andor.[25]

Shaw is an award-winning audiobook narrator; in October 2022, Shaw was awarded an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award for her performance of The Bullet That Missed, the third book in Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series.[26]

Personal life

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."[27]

A Catholic,[28] from 2002 to 2005, Shaw was the partner of English actress Saffron Burrows.[29] She met Sri Lankan economist Sonali Deraniyagala after reading Deraniyagala's memoir,[30] and they married in 2018.[31]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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	TBA	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
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)	[32]
2022	Andor	Maarva Andor	Series regular (4 episodes)	[25]

Other projects

• When Love Speaks (2002, EMI Classics): "It is thy will thy image should keep open"
• Simon Schama's John Donne: 2009[33][34]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Category
1986	Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role	As You Like It / Mephisto	Nominated
1990	Olivier Award for Best Actress	Electra / As You Like It / The Good Person of Szechwan	Won
1992	Olivier Award for Best Actress	Hedda Gabler	Nominated
1993	Evening Standard Award for Best Actress	Machinal	Won
1994	Olivier Award for Best Actress		Won
1997	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance	The Waste Land	Won
2001	Evening Standard Award for Best Actress	Medea	Won
2003	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play		Nominated
	Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play		Nominated
2008	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play	Happy Days	Nominated
	Olivier Award for Best Actress		Nominated
2017	Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for Best TV Supporting Actress	Channel Zero	Nominated
2019	British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress	Killing Eve	Won
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Fleabag	Nominated
2020	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Killing Eve	Nominated

References

External links

• Fiona Shaw at IMDb
• Fiona Shaw at the Internet Broadway Database
• World Theatre – Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, January 2002
• Fiona Shaw interviewed by Sophie Elmhirst on New Statesman, September 2009
• Fiona Shaw (director) on Operabase

На других языках

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[de] Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw, CBE (* 10. Juli 1958 als Fiona Mary Wilson in Cobh, County Cork), ist eine irische Film- und Theaterschauspielerin.

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[es] Fiona Shaw

Fiona Mary Wilson (Condado de Cork, Munster, Irlanda, 10 de julio de 1958), conocida como Fiona Shaw, es una actriz irlandesa e inglesa que trabaja habitualmente en la zona teatral de Londres, aunque internacionalmente se le conoce gracias a sus papeles como Petunia Dursley (de soltera Petunia Evans) en las películas de Harry Potter y como Caroyln Martens en la popular serie Killing Eve.

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[ru] Шоу, Фиона

Фио́на Мэ́ри Уи́лсон (англ. Fiona Mary Wilson, более известная как Фио́на Шо́у (англ. Fiona Shaw); род. 10 июля 1958 (1958-07-10)) — ирландская актриса и театральный режиссёр. Наиболее известна ролью Петунии Дурсль в серии фильмов о Гарри Поттере.

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