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
Theater dates very quickly.
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
And I can remember that extraordinary moment when you first see the words, instead of having to make them out letter by letter.