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'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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 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.
A relationship is sent by God and accident.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.