FIONA SHAW is one of Ireland's most respected actresses, with a distinguished career on stage and screen. Her film credits include roles in "My Left Foot," "Mountains of the Moon," "Three Men and a Little Lady," "London Kills Me," "Super Mario Bros," "Undercover Blues," "Jane Eyre" and "Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina." She most recently starred as Mrs. Nugent in Neil Jordan's acclaimed "The Butcher Boy." Her television work includes "Sherlock Holmes" for Granada Television, "Love Song" for Anglia TV, "Maria's Child," "Hedda Gabler," "Persuasion" and "The Wasteland," all for the BBC.
Shaw's extensive theater credits include "The Rivals" at the National Theatre and "As You Like It," "Philistines" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Touring productions with the RSC include "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Merchant of Venice" and "Hyde Park." Her performance in "Electra" at the Barbican in London in 1990 gained her the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the London Critics Award. She received the London Critics Award again in 1992 for her performance in "Hedda Gabler" at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and in 1993 received the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Machinal" at the National Theatre.
Her other theater work includes roles in "Footfalls" at the Garrick Theatre, "Richard II" and "Way of the World" at the National, and her acclaimed performance of "The Wasteland" in Paris, Toronto, Montreal and on Broadway.

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