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Fiona Shaw Biography (1960?-)

Born c. 1960, in Cork, Ireland; father, an eye surgeon; married; husband's name, Hugh; children: two daughters.

Nationality

Irish

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress

Birth Details

1960?

Cork, Ireland

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• Julia Melville, The Rivals, National Theatre Company, Olivier Theatre, London, 1983
• Mary Shelley, Bloody Poetry, Hampstead Theatre, London, 1984
• Celia, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon, England, then Barbican Theatre, London, both 1985
• Madame de Volanges, Les liaisons dangereuses, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon, 1985, then The Pit, London, 1986
• Tatyana Vasilyevna, The Philistines, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon, 1985, then The Pit, 1986
• Erika Bruckner, Mephisto, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 1986
• Prudence, The New Inn, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, 1987
• Mistress Carol, Hyde Park, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, 1987, then The Pit, 1988
• Katherine, The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon, 1987, then Barbican Theatre, 1988
• Title role, Mary Stuart, Greenwich Theatre, London, 1988
• Title role, Electra, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit, 1988-89
• Rosalind, As You Like It, Old Vic Theatre, London, 1989
• Shen The/Shui Ta, The Good Person of Sichuan, National Theatre Company, Olivier Theatre, 1989-90
• Shakespeare--As He Liked It, Haymarket Theatre, London, 1990
• Title role, Richard II, Royal National Theatre, London, 1996
• The Waste Land (solo dramatic reading), Kunsten Festival des Arts,Brussels, Belgium, then Liberty Theatre, New York City, 1997
• Also appeared in the title role, Hedda Gabler, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, then West End production, London; in Footfalls, Garrick Theatre, London; and in Machinal, Royal National Theatre; appeared as Rosaline, Love's Labour's Lost, and in Titus Andronicus,both Royal Shakespeare Company.
• Major Tours
• Portia, The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company, Britishcities, 1986-87
• Beatrice, Much Ado about Nothing, Royal Shakespeare Company, British cities, 1986-87
• Film Appearances
• Sister Felicity, Sacred Hearts, Reality/Film Four, 1984
• Dr. Eileen Cole, My Left Foot (also known as My Left Foot: TheStory of Christy Brown), Miramax, 1989
• Isabel Arundell (some sources cite Isabel Adams), Mountains of the Moon, TriStar, 1990
• Miss Lomax, Three Men and a Little Lady, 1990
• Headley, London Kills Me, 1991
• Lena, Super Mario Bros., 1993
• Novacek, Undercover Blues, 1993
• Pauline, Maria's Child, 1993
• Mrs. Croft, Persuasion, 1995
• Mrs. Reed, Jane Eyre (also known as Charlotte Bronte's JaneEyre), Miramax, 1996
• Lydia, Anna Karenina (also known as Anna Karenine), WarnerBros., 1997
• Mrs. Nugent, The Butcher Boy, Warner Bros., 1997
• Father, The Avengers, Warner Bros., 1998
• Marda Norton, The Last September, Trimark, 1999
• Frances O'Neil, Mind Games, 2000
• Aunt Petunia Dursley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), Warner Bros., 2001
• The Triumph of Love, 2001
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Voice of Viola, Twelfth Night, 1992
• Title role and program host, "Hedda Gabler," Masterpiece Theatre,PBS, 1993
• The Waste Land, BBC, 1995
• Episodic
• Miss Morrison, "The Crooked Man," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1984
• Herself, Ruby, 1997
• Other Television Appearances
• Young Deirdre, Love Song, Anglia Television, then Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1987
• Gillian Savage, For the Greater Good, 1991
• Seascape, 1994
• The Last Machine (series), 1995
• Title role, Richard II, 1997
• Hedda Hopper, RKO 281 (movie), HBO, 1999
• Voice of Irma Prunesquallor, Gormenghast, BBC America, 2000
• Also appeared in Fireworks for Elspeth.
• RECORDINGS
• Audio Books
• The Banyan Tree, Time Warner, 2000
• WRITINGS
• Books
• Composing Myself: A Journey through Postpartum Depression, Steerforth, 1998

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• American Theatre, March, 1997, p. 12.
• Newsweek, January 15, 1996, p. 67.