Fiona Shaw was born on Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958 and is an Irish film and theatre actress.
22 Facts About Fiona Shaw
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Fiona Shaw was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
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Fiona Shaw won the 1990 Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actress for roles in the plays Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Szechwan, and Machinal.
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Fiona Shaw received three Olivier Award nominations for her roles in Mephisto, Hedda Gabler, and Happy Days.
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Fiona Shaw made her Broadway debut playing the title role in Medea for which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Fiona Shaw returned to Broadway in the Colm Tobin play The Testament of Mary.
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Fiona Shaw played Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve, for which she received the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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Fiona Shaw starred in the BBC One series Baptiste, and the Disney+ series Andor.
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Fiona Shaw attended secondary school at Scoil Mhuire in Cork, and received her degree in philosophy at University College Cork.
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Fiona Shaw notably played the male lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995.
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Fiona Shaw performed T S Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York to great acclaim in 1996, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her performance.
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In 2009, Fiona Shaw collaborated with Deborah Warner again, taking the lead role in Tony Kushner's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children.
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In 2010, Fiona Shaw appeared in The Waste Land at Wilton's Music Hall, and in a National Theatre revival of London Assurance.
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In November 2010, Fiona Shaw starred in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan.
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In 2012, Fiona Shaw appeared in the National Theatre revival of Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker.
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Fiona Shaw had a brief but key role in Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia.
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Fiona Shaw appeared in season four of the American TV show True Blood.
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In 2018, Fiona Shaw began portraying Carolyn Martens, the head of MI6's Russia-focused branch, in BBC America's Killing Eve.
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Fiona Shaw starred in the Star Wars television series Andor, as the titular character's adoptive mother, Maarva Andor.
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Fiona Shaw is an award-winning audiobook narrator; in October 2022, Fiona Shaw was awarded an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award for her performance of The Bullet That Missed, the third book in Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series.
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From 2002 to 2005, Fiona Shaw was the partner of English actress Saffron Burrows.
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Fiona Shaw met Sri Lankan economist Sonali Deraniyagala after reading Deraniyagala's memoir, and they married in 2018.