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Fiona Shaw is an Irish actress in screen and stage. She did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
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Born 10 July 1958 · Q73612
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is there to throw a light on to darkness. What I like about the Baptiste series is that it is pitiless. I’ve always felt that the Greeks got that correct. The Christian ethic still dominates in the west – that if you do good things then good things happen. But it just isn’t like that, it is random and it is terrifying.
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for Killing Eve (2019).
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“is there to throw a light on to darkness. What I like about the Baptiste series is that it is pitiless. I’ve always felt that the Greeks got that correct. The Christian ethic still dominates in the west – that if you do good things then good things happen. But it just isn’t like that, it is random and it is terrifying.”
BroadwayWorld: Photos: Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw, & More Attend LADIES FIRST Screening
MacTech: Fiona Shaw joins second season cast of Apple TV+’s ‘Presumed Innocent’
Deadline.com: ‘Presumed Innocent’: Fiona Shaw Joins Season 2 Of Apple TV+ Legal Drama
Yahoo: Fiona Shaw was ‘scared’ to join tight-knit ‘Bad Sisters’ cast but ‘they were so welcoming I never wanted to leave them’
FirstShowing.net: Emma Mackey & Fiona Shaw Go to Spain in 'Hot Milk' Thriller Trailer
Yahoo: Fiona Shaw: ‘People were being shot out of cannons by the British – why aren’t we telling that story?’
Portrayed Rose Aguineau, a woman with a mysterious past who aids the protagonists, in season 4 of True Detective
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Deadline.com: Fiona Shaw, Katherine Waterston & Chaske Spencer Set For Indie Drama ‘Park Avenue’ From Director Gaby Dellal
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for Killing Eve (2019).
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Shaw began portraying Carolyn Martens, the head of MI6's Russia-focused branch, in BBC America's Killing Eve
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Starred as Catherine Greenshaw in Agatha Christie's Marple episode "Greenshaw's Folly"
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Shaw appeared in the National Theatre revival of Scenes from an Execution by Howard Barker
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Shaw appeared in The Waste Land at Wilton's Music Hall, and in a National Theatre revival of London Assurance
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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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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1999).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for The Waste Land (1997).
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1997).
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Winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her performance
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Shaw played Miss Morrison in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes episode The Adventure of the Crooked Man
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Starred as Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals (1983)
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1982).
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Born 1958-07-10.
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