Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw is, to my mind, the gold standard of what stage training does for an actor. Decades with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre gave her an authority that bends every scene toward her, whether she is playing Petunia Dursley in Harry Potter or the magnificently dry spymaster of Killing Eve, which earned her a BAFTA. The Olivier Awards and the honorary CBE merely confirm what the eye already knows: this is craft of the highest order. Whenever her name appears in a cast list, I immediately trust the entire production a little more. Cork should be proud.

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Name (English)

Fiona Shaw

Name (Japanese)

フィオナ・ショウ

Reading

ふぃおな・しょう

Born

July 10, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

County Cork, Ireland

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / performing artist / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dog

University

University College Cork

Awards & achievements

• Laurence Olivier Awards
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1997 Theatre World Award
• 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show
• 2019 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress
• Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
• 1999 honorary doctorate

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona%20Shaw
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73612

Tags

• County Cork
• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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