
Born 1958
LCounty Cork, Ireland
Fiona Shaw is an Irish actress of extraordinary range, known for stage work at the RSC and National Theatre, the Harry Potter films (as Aunt Petunia Dursley), and the BBC/AMC series Killing Eve (2018–2022), in which she played the sardonic, enigmatic MI5 handler Carolyn Martens. She has been openly lesbian throughout her career, though characteristically understated about it. She was in a long relationship with actress Sunnyi Melles and later married Irish barrister Sonali Joshi in 2018. Shaw has been one of Britain's most admired stage performers for four decades, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress for Medea (2001).