Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw, CBEis an Irish actress and theatre and opera director, known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and her role as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood. She has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, twice winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress; for various roles including Electra in 1990, and for Machinal in 1994. She won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth10 July 1958
CityCounty Cork, Ireland
CountryIreland
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.