Fiona Shaw


  • Date of Birth: 10 July, 1958
  • Place of Birth: County Cork, Ireland
  • Biography: Fiona Shaw, CBE (Hon) (born July 10, 1958) is a leading Irish actress and theatre director. Although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, she is regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation.... Read more

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To do so, he says, is "an end to self-respect". But he has someone reply that the bankers who presided over the ongoing global financial meltdown were, of course, blinded by their own self-belief too. ... Full Article

For a time, it looked as though the wheels had come off Mother Courage's cart before she'd even begun her monumental journey across the battlefields of Europe in the Thirty Years War. ... Full Article

"Actress," it turned out, was not always the kindest of labels: It affirmed a woman's vocation but also could be used to question her morals. ... Full Article

Shaw appeared in the Harry Potter films Actress Fiona Shaw has joined the panel of judges for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. She will join writer and academic Hermione Lee, who will be chairing the judging panel. ... Full Article

The 66-year-old picked up her first Tony Award for her acclaimed role as a tortured mother in Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece, Long Day's Journey Into Night. ... Full Article

The consummate actor's actress, Irish mummer Fiona Shaw is currently spilling blood and making critics swoon (and even causing one audience member to faint) in Medea , the ancient tragedy that seems to resonate with today's anxiety-ridden New Yorkers. ... Full Article

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