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Birthplace:
Cork, Ireland
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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
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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"
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