Fiona Shaw
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Fiona Shaw, Honorary CBE (christened Fiona Mary Wilson) is a leading Irish stage actress who regularly appears in London theatre.
Biography
She was born on 10 July, 1955 in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, to a mixed religion couple, and is widely regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of the age.
After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, she received much acclaim as Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Sheridan's The Rivals, a role which demonstrated her gift for comedy. Despite her natural comic abilities, Shaw opts more often than not for roles showcasing her extreme but unaffected emotional intensity. These performances have earned her numerous stage awards.
Other notable theatrical roles include Celia in As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), and the title roles in Elektra (1988), The Good Person of Sechuan (1989), Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1998) and Medea (2000).
She controversially played the lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. Shaw has collaborated with Warner on a number of occasions, on both stage and screen.
Shaw has been linked romantically with English actress Saffron Burrows.
Shaw has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Gormenghast, and the Harry Potter films (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), in which she plays the insufferable Aunt Petunia .
She was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001.
Selected filmography
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- Catch and Release (2005)
- Midsummer Dream (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
- Gormenghast (2000) (miniseries)
- The Avengers (1998)
- The Butcher Boy (1997)
- Anna Karenina (1997)
- Persuasion (1995)
- Super Mario Bros. (1993)
- Hedda Gabler (1993) (TV)
- Mountains of the Moon (1990)
- My Left Foot (1989)
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