Fiona Shaw, christened Fiona Mary Wilson (natural July 10, 1958 to a mixed religion few) occurs as leading Irish stage actress world health organization regularly appears within London theatre. She was natural within County Cork, Ireland, and is widely repute one of a finest definitive actresses of the age.

When educational videos at a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, she received much plaudit when Julia in the National Theatre production of Richard Sheridan's The Rivals, a role which demonstrated her gift for comedy.

More luminary stage roles include Celia within As You Like It (1984), Madame de Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons (1985), Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1987), the name part inside Elektra (1988) and Hedda Gabler (1991).

She polemically played a lead around Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. Shaw collaborated by owning Warner in the total of occasions, in two stage & screen. Shaw has been linked romantically by using English actress Saffron Burrows.

Shaw has as well worked around film & television, including My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Gormenghast, and a Harry Potter films, in which she plays a impossible Aunt Petunia .

She was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001.

Selected Filmography
The Black Dahlia (2006) Catch and Release (2005) Midsummer Dream (2005) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Gormenghast (2000) (miniseries) The Avengers (1998) The Butcher Boy (1997) Anna Karenina (1997) Super Mario Bros. (1993) Hedda Gabler (1993) (TV) Mountains of the Moon (1990) My Left Foot'' (1989)