Fiona Shaw
Born	July 10, 1958 (1958-07-10) (age 49) County Cork, Ireland

Fiona Shaw, CBE (Hon) (born July 10, 1958) is a leading Irish actress who regularly appears in London theatre, although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. County Cork (Contae Chorcaí is the most southerly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London 's "Theatreland" The following are Fictional characters in the Harry Potter book series written by J Harry Potter is a series of seven Fantasy novels written by British author J She has been regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation. ^[1][2] Shaw was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. ^[3]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Shaw was born Fiona Mary Wilson in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, to a mixed-religious couple and was raised Catholic. County Cork (Contae Chorcaí is the most southerly and the largest of the modern counties of Ireland. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". ^[4][5] Her father was an eye surgeon^[6] and her mother was a physicist. A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning ^[7] She liked to be called "Fe Fe" in her childhood years and attended secondary school at Scoil Mhuire In Cork City. She received her degree in University College Cork. University College Cork ( UCC) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, the university is located in Cork. 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 (1983), a role which demonstrated her gift for comedy. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as one of the most prestigious Drama schools in the world London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Royal National Theatre, located on the South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 &ndash 7 July 1816 was an Irish playwright and Whig Statesman. The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a Comedy of manners in five acts Despite her natural comic abilities, Shaw has opted more often than not for roles showcasing her extreme but unaffected emotional intensity. These performances have earned her numerous stage awards.

Career

Her 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), 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). As You Like It is a Pastoral Comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons) is a French The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594 Happy Days is a play in two acts written in English, by Samuel Beckett. Electra or Elektra (Ηλέκτρα / Ēlektra) is a Greek tragic play by Sophocles. Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a Novella by Muriel Spark, by far the best known of her works Medea (Μήδεια / Mēdeia) is a tragedy play written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced She performed T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York to great acclaim in 1996. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. The Waste Land ( 1922) is a highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous ^[8]

She controversially played the lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595 Deborah Warner CBE (born 12 May 1959) is a British director of Theatre and Opera. Shaw has collaborated with Warner on a number of occasions, on both stage and screen. Shaw has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Gormenghast, and a number of the Harry Potter films in which she plays the insufferable Aunt Petunia. My Left Foot The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 Drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Jane Eyre is a 1996 film adaption of Charlotte Brontë 's 1847 novel of the same name. Persuasion is a form of Social influence. It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea attitude or action by rational and symbolic (though not always Harry Potter is a series of seven Fantasy novels written by British author J The following are Fictional characters in the Harry Potter book series written by J

Shaw had a brief but key role in Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia. She also made an appearance in Sherlock Holmes as a family friend of the widow in The Crooked Man

Personal life

For a number of years, Shaw has been romantically linked in the press with actress Saffron Burrows. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Saffron Dominique Burrows (born October 21, 1972) is an English actress and former Fashion model. ^[9][10][11] Neither actress has publicly confirmed or denied the relationship; however, they do live together in a house in the small Essex town of Thaxted. The two appeared together in the National Theatre's production of The PowerBook,^[12] a play based on the novel of the same name by Jeanette Winterson in which they played lovers. Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist

Filmography

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2008)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Fracture (2007)
• Catch and Release (2007)
• The Black Dahlia (2006)
• Midsummer Dream (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
• Doctor Sleep (2002)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
• Gormenghast (2000) (TV)
• The Avengers (1998)
• The Butcher Boy (1997)
• Anna Karenina (1997)
• Jane Eyre (1996)
• Persuasion (1995)
• Undercover Blues (1993)
• Super Mario Bros. (1993)
• Hedda Gabler (1993) (TV)
• Three Men and a Little Lady (1990)
• Mountains of the Moon (1990)
• My Left Foot (1989)

References

External links

• Fiona Shaw at the Internet Movie Database
• Fiona Shaw at the Internet Broadway Database
• World Theatre - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, January 2002

The Internet Broadway Database ( IBDB) is an online Database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short originally part of the WWII Allied Relief Fund is a New York City -based organization "dedicated to supporting

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