Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw trained at RADA

Theatre
Productions at the National: London Assurance, Mother Courage and Her Children, Happy Days (also New York and international tour), The Rivals, The Good Person of Sichuan, Machinal, the title role in Richard II, The Way of the World and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
For the RSC: As You Like It, Philistines, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Mephisto, Hyde Park, The Taming of the Shrew, New Inn, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice and Electra
Other work in theatre includes: The Waste Land, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Bloody Poetry, Mary Stuart, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Electra, Footfalls, The Waste Land, Destruction, Detroit III

As director: Widowers’ Houses (NT); Riders to the Sea, Hamlet

TV
Love Song, Maria's Child, Persuasion, Fireworks for Elspeth, For The Greater Good, Hedda Gabler, Persuasion, Gormenghast, Mindgames, The Seventh Stream, Empire and Trial and Retribution

Film
Noi Credevamo, Dorian Gray, The Tree of Life, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fracture, Catch and Release, Anna Karenina, Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone,  Jane Eyre, My Left Foot, The Black Dahlia, The Butcher Boy, The Last September, The Triumph of Love, Mountains of the Moon, Three Men and A Little Lady, London Kills Me, Super Mario Bros, Underground Blues, The Avengers, RKO 281 and Skin and Blister

Awards
Fiona Shaw was awarded London Critics’ Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Good Person of Sichuan, Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress for her perfomance in Machinal, an Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in Electra, an Olivier Award for Best Actress for As You Like it, and a London Critics’ Award for her performance in Hedda Gabler at Playhouse from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Fiona Shaw was awarded an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland and is Honorary Professor of Drama at Trinity College, Dublin

Published November 2009