Fiona Shaw

Nationality:
Irish
Birthdate:
07/10/1955
Birthplace:
Cork, Ireland
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biography
An Irish-born stage actress often (to her dismay) compared to Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw has been making inroads onscreen as well since the late 1980s. Intense and fiercely intellectual off-stage and on, this statuesque brunette with a great aquiline profile graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1982 and promptly made her debut in "Love's Labour's Lost". Since then, she has turned in one powerful--sometimes controversial--stage performance after another, including Celia in "As You Like It" (1985), Erika in "Mephisto" (1986), a near-psychotic Katherine in "The Taming of the Continued
Credits
Mrs. Douglas
2007
Ramona Linscott
2006
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Fulvia
2005
Fulvia
2005
Fulvia
2005
Leontine--The Spinster Sister
2002
Father
1998
Mrs Nugent
1998
Lydia
1997
Mrs Croft
1995
Hedda Hopper
Catherine Lebourg
Headley
Sister Felicity
Isabel Arundell
Pauline
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Raised on the outskirts of Cork, Ireland
1980 
Moved to London to study at RADA
1983 
Made professional stage debut in "Love's Labour's Lost" (date approximate)
1983 
Played Julia Melville in "The Rivals" at London's Olivier Theatre
1984 
Film debut as Sister Felicity in "Sacred Hearts"
Continued