Biography
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 play...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Echo Valley
2025
as Jessie Oliver
Kate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, ...

Hot Milk
2025
as Rose Papastergiadis
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold ...

Park Avenue
2025
as Kit
Paralyzed by her life wrangling cattle in Alberta, Canada, Charlotte jumps into her Ford Bronco, flees her over-controlling husband, and lands back in...

That Christmas
2024
as Ms. Trapper (voice)
It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's...

IF
2024
as Grandmother
After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their ...

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
as Maarva Andor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.

Russia vs. the World
2021
as Narrator
Fiona Shaw narrates this exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a t...

Ammonite
2020
as Elizabeth Philpot
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite ...

Kindred
2020
as Margaret
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a cr...

Enola Holmes
2020
as Miss Harrison
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

The Christmas Letter
2019
as Ms. Broom
Christmas-mad kid Henry tries to bring some much-needed cheer into a lonely old lady’s life in this touching festive animation narrated by Kate Winsle...

Out of Innocence
2019
as Catherine Flynn
After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.

Colette
2018
as Sido
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France...

Lizzie
2018
as Abby Borden
Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control...

The Hippopotamus
2017
as Anne Logan
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.

The White King
2016
as Kathrin Fitz
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter,...

Maigret Sets A Trap
2016
as 曼森夫人

Pixels
2015
as Prime Minister (uncredited)
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
as Self
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
2013
Director
The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski (Piotr Beczala). This s...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

The English Teacher
2013
as Narrator
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil...

Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed performa...

The Tree of Life
2011
as Grandmother
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhoo...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Petunia Dursley
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

We Believed
2010
as Emilie Ashurst
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, s...

National Theatre Live: London Assurance
2010
as Lady Gay Spanker
Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charl...

Dorian Gray
2009
as Agatha
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance,...

Mitchell And Kenyon In Ireland
2007
as Narrator (voice)
Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70 ye...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Petunia Dursley
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Le...

Fracture
2007
as Judge Robinson
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put h...

Catch and Release
2006
as Mrs. Ellen Douglas
For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

The Black Dahlia
2006
as Ramona Linscott
In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer ...
Ebb and Flo
2005
as Narrator
Flo doesn't think of Ebb as a dog, and Ebb doesn't think of Flo as a small human, they just are the best of friends. Until Bird arrives to lovingly di...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Petunia Dursley
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Petunia Dursley
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Petunia Dursley
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with ...

The Triumph of Love
2001
as Leontine
A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love.

Mind Games
2001
as Frances O'Neil
A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach m...

The Last September
2000
as Marda Norton
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, a...

RKO 281
2000
as Hedda Hopper
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the...

The Avengers
1998
as Father
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the worl...

Titanic Town
1998
as Sue, TV Interviewer (Uncredited Cameo)
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally sho...

The Butcher Boy
1998
as Mrs. Nugent
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...

Anna Karenina
1997
as Lydia
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 1...

Richard II
1997
as Richard II
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.

Jane Eyre
1996
as Mrs. Reed
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Persuasion
1995
as Mrs. Croft
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea capt...

The Waste Land
1995
as Herself
A film version of a performance by Fiona Shaw of T.S. Eliot's poem.

Undercover Blues
1993
as Novacek
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...

Super Mario Bros.
1993
as Lena
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only ho...

Maria's Child
1993
as Pauline
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...

Hedda Gabler
1993
as Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up...

London Kills Me
1991
as Headley
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barel...

3 Men and a Little Lady
1990
as Miss Lomax
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary w...

Mountains of the Moon
1990
as Isabel
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victor...

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989
as Dr. Eileen Cole
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and...

Sacred Hearts
1985
as Sister Felicity
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Love Song
1985
as Young Deirdre Walters
The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University.

Fireworks for Elspeth
1983
as Elspeth
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her d...

Monstrous Beauty
N/A
as Aphra Ben
Barbara Field, born into poverty with a rare condition that means she is entirely covered in hair. Given the precious gift of an education, she is off...
The Rising: 1916
N/A
as Countess Markievicz
In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Fol...
Ladies First
N/A
An unrepentant womanizer finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart makes things even more complicated.
The Stalemate
N/A
A robber and sheriff, out of bullets and far from town, must negotiate their way out of an absurd, unending chase in the Old West.
Scotch Verdict
N/A