Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw, CBE (* July 10, 1958 when Fiona Mary Wilson in County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish film and theater actress.
Biography
The daughter of an ophthalmologist and physicist studied philosophy at University College Cork and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1996, she spent two weeks in a monastery of the Benedictine nuns. The diary, which she kept on her experiences during this period, was broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 4. Currently she lives with her partner, actress Saffron Burrows, in London.
Career
Fiona Shaw is one of the most famous theater actresses in the UK and made primarily as a performer of classical pieces a name. So she played among others in Richard II in 1995 one of the main roles. In 2009, she starred in Mother Courage and her children once again the leading role. Also in Film and Television Shaw has appeared in many productions of classic plays and novels such as Hedda Gabler, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre or Jane Austen's seduction.
In addition, Shaw was involved in numerous feature films and showed in both The Avengers and melon as well as in Undercover Blues - A pretty cool trio her comedic talent. When younger audience, the actress is best known for her portrayal of Aunt Petunia Dursley in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter novels, in younger adults as a performer of Marnie in the series True Blood.
Since 2010 is again reinforced on the theater stage active and appeared in a piece in the National Theatre. Also in 2010 she appeared in the play John Gabriel Borkman with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in the theater of Dublin.