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Fiona Shaw
Highest Rated: 98% My Left Foot (1989)
Lowest Rated: 5% The Avengers (1998)
Birthday: Jul 10, 1958
Birthplace: County Cork, Ireland
An Irish-born stage actress often (to her dismay) compared to Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw has been making inroads onscreen as well since the late 1980s. Intense and fiercely intellectual off-stage and on, this statuesque brunette with a great aquiline profile graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1982 and promptly made her debut in "Love's Labour's Lost." Since then, she has turned in one powerful--sometimes controversial--stage performance after another, including Celia in "As You Like It" (1985), Erika in "Mephisto" (1986), a near-psychotic Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" (1987-1988) and "Mary Stuart" (1988 and 1996), earning a reputation as a superb classical actress/daredevil. Shaw's most hotly-debated role was as "Richard II," which she played in 1995 and which marked her sixth collaboration (since 1988) with her longtime friend, director Deborah Warner. The two made their NYC debut in 1996 with a hit staging of "The Waste Land," T. S. Eliot's 433-line poem about death and resurrection. Critics praised Shaw for her brilliant performance in the tour de force which had the actress standing alone on a bare stage, conjuring up a bleak gallery of characters lost in a realm of spiritual blight.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | IF | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 69% | 85% | Ammonite | Elizabeth Philpot (Character) | $160.9K | 2020 |
| 69% | 53% | Kindred | Margaret (Character) | $8.7K | 2020 |
| 91% | 71% | Enola Holmes | Miss Harrison (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 87% | 70% | Colette | Sido (Character) | $5.1M | 2018 |
| 66% | 48% | Lizzie | Abby Borden (Character) | $639.2K | 2018 |
| 57% | 48% | The Hippopotamus | Anne Logan (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Untitled | Narrator | - | 2017 |
| 86% | No Score Yet | Out of Innocence | Catherine Flynn (Character) | - | 2016 |
| 73% | 58% | The White King | Kathrin Fitz (Voice) | - | 2016 |
| 43% | 31% | The English Teacher | Narrator | $60.2K | 2013 |
| 85% | 60% | The Tree of Life | Grandmother (Character) | $13.3M | 2011 |
| 77% | 85% | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Aunt Petunia (Character) | $295.0M | 2010 |
| 43% | 39% | Dorian Gray | Agatha (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 78% | 81% | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Aunt Petunia (Character) | $292.0M | 2007 |
| 22% | 55% | Catch and Release | Mrs. Douglas (Character) | $15.3M | 2006 |
| 32% | 27% | The Black Dahlia | Ramona Linscott (Character) | $22.5M | 2006 |
| 90% | 86% | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Petunia Dursley (Character) | $249.4M | 2004 |
| 44% | 35% | Hypnotic | Lebourg (Character) | $39.4K | 2003 |
| 82% | 80% | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Petunia Dursley (Character) | $262.0M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mind Games | Frances O'Neil (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 49% | 50% | Triumph of Love | Leontine (Character) | $448.5K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Seventh Stream | Mrs. Gourdon (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 81% | 82% | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Petunia Dursley (Character) | $317.9M | 2001 |
| 40% | 60% | Gormenghast | Unknown (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 42% | 33% | The Last September | Marda Norton (Character) | $470.0K | 1999 |
| 92% | 75% | RKO 281 | Hedda Hopper (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 5% | 15% | The Avengers | Father (Character) | $23.4M | 1998 |
| 26% | 66% | Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina | Lydia (Character) | $791.8K | 1997 |
| 77% | 82% | The Butcher Boy | Mrs. Nugent (Character) | $2.0M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paul McCartney's Standing Stone | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Reed (Character) | $5.2M | 1996 |
| 87% | 83% | Persuasion | Mrs. Croft (Character) | $3.7M | 1995 |
| 29% | 29% | Super Mario Bros. | Lena (Character) | $20.8M | 1993 |
| 37% | 67% | Undercover Blues | Paulina Novacek (Character) | $12.0M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Maria's Child | Pauline (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | London Kills Me | Headley (Character) | $169.0K | 1991 |
| 40% | 43% | Three Men and a Little Lady | Miss Elspeth Lomax (Character) | $71.6M | 1990 |
| 65% | 77% | Mountains of the Moon | Isabel Arundell (Character) | $1.4M | 1990 |
| 98% | 92% | My Left Foot | Dr. Eileen Cole (Character) | $14.5M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sacred Hearts | Sister Felicity (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 57% | True Detective | Rose Aguineau (Character) | 2024 |
| 96% | 86% | Andor | Unknown (Character) | 2022 |
| 80% | 73% | Killing Eve | Carolyn Martens (Character) | 2018-2020 2022 |
| 86% | 59% | Baptiste on Masterpiece | Emma Chambers (Character) | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Killing Eve: Killer Episodes | Unknown (Character) | 2021 |
| 100% | 93% | Fleabag | Counsellor (Character) | 2019 |
| 91% | 100% | Mrs Wilson | Coleman (Character) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait Artist of the Year | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sarah & Duck | Music Lady (Character) | 2015 2017 |
| 38% | 78% | Emerald City | Mombi (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 93% | 85% | Channel Zero | Marla Painter (Character) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Life of Books | Host | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Mystery! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 68% | 72% | True Blood | Marnie Stonebrook (Character) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Empire | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |