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 mainly have a nice time in my life.
I must do some film because I can't keep on doing plays at this rate or I'd die.
The way I look at it is that I am a non-man playing somebody who perceives himself to be a non-man.
I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need to find out what it is I want to do.
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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.
The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.
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.