Fiona Shaw movies

She has been regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation.12. 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 Sheridans The Rivals (1983), a role which demonstrated her gift for comedy.

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.
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). She performed T.S. Eliots poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York to great acclaim in 1996.Ben Brantly, Memory and Desire: Hearing Eliots Passion, New York Times November 18, 1996She controversially played the lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. 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.Personal lifeFor a number of years, Shaw has been romantically linked in the press with actress Saffron Burrows."Mad About Saffron", Sydney Morning Herald, May 15 2004"A hint of Saffron", The Observer, May 5 2002 Neither actress has publicly confirmed or denied the relationship.

Fiona Shaw Movies

All movies starring Fiona Shaw.

• Catch and Release
• Fracture
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Jane Eyre
• My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
• Persuasion
• The Other Side