Fiona Shaw

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 series Killing Eve (2018), in which she played Carolyn Martens, the sardonic, enigmatic MI6 officer overseeing the Russia desk, a role that won her a BAFTA Award. She has been openly lesbian throughout her career, though characteristically understated about it, and has said the realization that she was gay came as a shock after she had dated men for years. She was previously in a long relationship with actress Saffron Burrows and married the Sri Lankan-born economist and memoirist Sonali Deraniyagala in 2018. Shaw has been one of Britain's most admired stage performers for four decades, twice winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress, for Electra and As You Like It (1990) and for Machinal (1994), and earning a Tony Award nomination for her Broadway performance in Medea (2002).