Fiona Shaw
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Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish actress and theatre and opera producer.
She is best known for her appearances in Harry Potter's film series (2001–2010), as Marnie Stonebrook on season four of HBO's True Blood (2011) and as Carolyn Martens on BBC America's Killing Eve (2018–present), for which she received the 2019 BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Shaw has received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Support Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, for her appearances in the second seasons of Killing Eve and the comedy-drama Fleabag.
She received the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Machinal, as well as the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land.
(2001-02) She appeared in Medea in the West End and on Broadway as the title character.
In 2001, she was awarded an Honorary CBE.
Early life
Fiona Mary Wilson was born in Cobh, County Cork, on July 10, 1958, the granddaughter of physicist Mary T. (Flynn) Wilson and ophthalmic surgeon Denis Joseph Wilson (1922–2011), who wed in 1952. They owned a house in Montenotte. She obtained her degree in philosophy at University College Cork from Scoil Mhuire.
Denis Wilson, Shaw's father, studied medicine at University College Cork, where he competed rugby. He worked in London for a brief period before going to be an ophthalmologist as the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1960. On his return to Cork, he was transferred to Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, where he served until his departure, coincident with the transfer of the eye unit to Cork University Hospital. He volunteered at UCC and RCSI. Since retiring, De Iron Trote, a history of the Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, continued his interest in the arts by studying for a Diploma in Art History at UCC.
Personal life
Shaw, a lesbian, had been dating men for many years before realizing her sexual orientation, stating "It was a surprise." I was full of self-hatred and hoped to return to the fold shortly. But I didn't."
Shaw, a Roman Catholic, from 2002 to 2005. Saffron Burrows, an English actress, was his partner. Sonali Deraniyagala, a Sri Lankan economist, after reading Deraniyagala's biography, married in 2018.
Career
Shaw studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and was part of a "new wave" of actors to emerge from RADA. Julia in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals (1983), received a lot of attention as Julia. Celia in As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1989), Young Woman in Machinal (1993), and The Prime Minister of Sechuan (1989) Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime Minister of Sechuan (1990), Hedda Gabler (1989), The Prime Minister of Sechuan (1990) and Medea (2000) She presented T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York in 1996, receiving the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her appearance. Miss Morrison appeared in the 1984 edition "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and Catherine Greenshaw in Agatha Christie's "Greenshaw's Folly."
In Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995, Shaw played the male lead. Shaw has worked with Warner on several occasions, both on stage and film. Shaw has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot (1989), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), and five of Harry Potter's (1993) films in which she appeared Harry Potter's aunt. Shaw appeared in Brian DePalma's The Black Dahlia (2006) for a brief but central role.
Shaw worked with Deborah Warner in 2009, playing a key part in Tony Kushner's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Rupert Christiansen wrote about their professional relationship as "one of the most richly creative partnerships in theatre history" in a 2002 article for The Daily Telegraph. Other collaborations between the two women include Brecht's The Good Woman of Szechuan and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, the latter of which was made for television.
Shaw appeared in The Waste Land at Wilton's Music Hall in January 2010 and in a National Theatre revival of London Assurance in March 2010. Shaw appeared in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman in November 2010 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, alongside Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan. In 2011, the performance was also presented in the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Shaw appeared in Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker in 2012. United Solo, the world's biggest solo theatre festival, has lauded her appearance in The Testament of Mary on Broadway with the 2013 United Solo Special Award.
Shaw appeared in season four of the American television series True Blood. Marnie Stonebrook, Shaw's character, has been described as an underachieving palm reader who is spiritually possessed by a real witch. In BBC America's Killing Eve, Shaw began portraying Carolyn Martens, the head of MI6's Russia-focused branch. She was named Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series by the BAFTA for her role. In Mrs Wilson's later years, she served as a senior MI6 officer. Maarva Andor, the titular character's adoptive mother, appears in Star Wars television series Andor, a prequel to the film Rogue One.
Shaw is a three-time audiobook narrator; in October 2022, she was given an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award for her appearance of The Bullet That Missed, the third book in Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club series.