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Fiona Shaw. Actress: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989).
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Fiona Mary Shaw (b. 10 July, 1958, County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actress and theatre and opera director. She has appeared in over 40 productions in her career. She portrays Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films.
•She was awarded the 1989 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her performances in Electra and The Good Person of Sichuan.
•She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1990 (1989 season) for Best Actress in a New Play for Electra, As You LIke It and The Good Person of Sichaun.
•She was awarded the 1991 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actress for her performance in Hedda Gabler.
•She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Actress for her performance in Machinal at the Royal National Theatre.
•She was awarded an honorary C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 2001.
•She was awarded the 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Medea at the Queen's Theatre in London, England.
•Although Petunia is a Muggle who despised and resented witchcraft and witches, Fiona Shaw ironically played a powerful witch in the vampire series True Blood, known as Marnie Stonebrook.
•In the critically panned Super Mario Bros Movie (1993), Fiona Shaw's character (Lena) says to Princess Daisy that she's got "[her] mother eyes". Ironically, this sentence is said by many characters, the few exceptions including Petunia.
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•Fiona Shaw at the Internet Movie Database
In film, she played Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010). Other notable film roles include in My Left Foot (1989), Persuasion (1995), Jane Eyre (1996), The Tree of Life (2011), Colette (2018), Ammonite (2020), and Enola Holmes (2020).
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) Fiona Shaw as Aunt Petunia Dursley.
May 11, 2016 · Fiona looks incredibly at home on the clean but rather dilapidated sofa, and we are surrounded by thousands of letters inviting Harry to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Fiona Shaw portrayed Petunia Dursley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Fiona Shaw shows up in Andor as well and her monologue in that show brought me to tears. And that character was so different from Aunt Petunia I almost didn't recognize her. Love her so much.
