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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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Highest rated movies

98% 92% My Left Foot
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92% 75% RKO 281
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91% 71% Enola Holmes
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90% 86% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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87% 70% Colette Watchlist
87% 83% Persuasion
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86% Out of Innocence
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85% 60% The Tree of Life
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82% 80% Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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80% 82% Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

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57% No Score Yet That Christmas MS Trapper (Voice) - 2024
50% 86% IF Unknown (Character) $111.1M 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% 49% Lizzie Abby Borden (Character) $639.2K 2018
57% 47% 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
46% 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
23% 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
80% 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% 81% 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 78% 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

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79% 59% True Detective Rose Aguineau (Character) 2024
96% 87% Andor Unknown (Character) 2022
80% 73% Killing Eve Carolyn Martens (Character) 2018-2020 2022
86% 60% 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% 89% 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