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Fiona Shaw is an acclaimed Irish actress known for her work in film, theatre, and television. She has won numerous awards, including an Olivier Award, and has had notable roles in the Harry Potter series, True Blood, and Killing Eve.
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Fiona Shaw is an Irish film and theatre actress. She did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empireby Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
She won the 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for roles in the plays Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Szechwanfor which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She returned to Broadway in the Colm Tobin play The Testament of Mary (2013).
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).
Her television roles include Hedda Hopper in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999), and Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood (2011). She played Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018-22), for which she received the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. For her role as a counselor in Fleabag (2019), she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination. She starred in the BBC One series Baptiste (2021), and the Disney+ series Andor (2022).
Fiona Shaw is an Irish film and theatre actress. She was born Fiona Mary Wilson on July 10, 1958.
Fiona Shaw won the 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her roles in several plays. She has also received three Olivier Award nominations and a Tony Award nomination.
Fiona Shaw played Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series, and has had roles in movies like My Left Foot, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, The Tree of Life, Colette, and Ammonite.
Fiona Shaw has had roles on TV shows like RKO 281, True Blood, Killing Eve (for which she won a BAFTA TV Award), Fleabag, Baptiste, and Andor.
In 2001, Fiona Shaw was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
Fiona Shaw made her Broadway debut playing the title role in Medea in 2002, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
Fiona Shaw did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in addition to her film and television roles.
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Irish actress (born 1958)
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
Irish actress (born 1958)
So I just play the character, I play the lines.
Irish actress (born 1958)
One moment cannot be the most important.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I’m bored by it.
Irish actress (born 1958)
There’s something about the Irish that is remarkable.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Acting doesn’t have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Once you’ve done one style, you leave it for a while.
Irish actress (born 1958)
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It’s exciting when you hit on a new way.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
Irish actress (born 1958)
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Irish actress (born 1958)
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Irish actress (born 1958)
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
Irish actress (born 1958)
My mother taught me to read.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
Irish actress (born 1958)
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
Irish actress (born 1958)
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Theater dates very quickly.
Irish actress (born 1958)
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Irish actress (born 1958)
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
Irish actress (born 1958)
I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Irish actress (born 1958)
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Irish actress (born 1958)
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
Irish actress (born 1958)