- Born
- Birth nameFiona Mary Wilson
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989). The film is a telling of Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), an Irishman disgruntled with his confinement to a body horribly crippled by cerebral palsy but who found incredible success as an artist and writer. Shaw portrayed Eileen Cole, the doctor largely responsible for Christy's education and physical rehabilitation. Since, Shaw has received several accolades for her film and television performances.- IMDb mini biography by: Anthony Ronald Vario
- SpouseSonali Deraniyagala(2018 - present)
- ParentsMary WilsonDenis Wilson
- A fitness enthusiast, Shaw commutes around her home base in London on her bicycle.
- Her mother was a physicist and her father was an eye surgeon.
- Throughout the Harry Potter movie series, Shaw played "Petunia Dursley", Harry Potter's aunt, who had a strong aversion to any mention of or person connected to witchcraft or wizardry. Soon after finishing the last Potter movie, she started playing a witch possessed by a much-more powerful witch on the TV show, True Blood (2008).
- Graduated from University College Cork.
- She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Actress in her performance for "Machinal" at the Royal National Theatre.
- Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
- I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
- There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
- This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
- And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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