Fiona Shaw
Gender: Female
Born: 10th July 1958 (currently 53 years old)
Nationality: Republic of Ireland
TV programs: Empire, Gormenghast, True Blood, Trial & Retribution, Theatre Night, Royal Variety Performance, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, National Theatre Live, The Last Machine
Movies: Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Super Mario Bros., Anna Karenina, The Black Dahlia, Catch and Release, Fracture, 3 Men and a Little Lady, Midsummer Dream, The Avengers, The Butcher Boy, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Triumph of Love, The Seventh Stream, The Tree of Life, My Left Foot, Dorian Gray, Undercover Blues, The Last September, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, Mountains of the Moon, Tell Me, RKO 281, Doctor Sleep, London Kills Me, The Waste Land, Wagner's Women, The Newton Boys, Empire
Fiona Shaw, CBE (born Fiona Mary Wilson on 10 July 1958) is an Irish actress and theatre director. Although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, she is an accomplished classical actress. Shaw was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001.
Shaw was born in County Cork, Ireland to a mixed-religious couple, and was raised Roman Catholic. Her father was an optic surgeon and her mother was a physicist.
She attended secondary school at Scoil Mhuire in Cork City. She received her degree in University College Cork. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and was part of 'new wave’ of actors to emerge from the Academy. She received much acclaim as Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Sheridan's The Rivals (1983).
Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), Winnie in Happy Days (2007), and the title roles in Electra (1988), The Good Person of Sechuan (1989), Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1998) and Medea (2000). She
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