Fiona Shaw Biography (3)
In 1990, she received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Rosalind in As You Like It, followed by a further Olivier Award for Best Actress and London Critics Award for her performance in The Good Person of Sechuan. She received a further Laurence Olivier Award and London Critics Award for her portrayal of Electra, again in 1990. This was followed in 1992 by the London Critics Award for her eponymous portrayal of Hedda Gabler and in 1993 she again received the Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Actress for Stephen Daldry's Machinal.
Other major stage productions include: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The Way of the World and Richard II for the Royal National Theatre; a world tour of The Wasteland; The Rivals; Bloody Poetry and Philistines; Les Liaisons Dangereuses; Mephisto; Much Ado About Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; Hyde Park and The Taming of the Shrew for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
In addition to her performances on stage, Shaw has also directed The Widowers Houses for the National Theatre Education Tour.
Shaw's memorable film credits include: Jim Sheridon's My Left Foot; Bob Rafelson's Mountains of the Moon; Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me; Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre; Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy; Deborah Warner's The Last September and recently Clare Peploe's The Triumph of Love.
For television, Shaw has reprised her roles in Hedda Gabler and The Wasteland, both for the BBC, as well as starring in Danny Boyle's For the Greater Good; Roger Michell's Persuasian; Andy Wilson's Gormenghast and as the star of Lynda La Plante's Mind Games.
In 1997, Shaw was awarded a doctorate at the National University of Ireland and made a Professor of Drama at the University of Cork, Ireland. This year she was awarded a doctorate from Trinity College Dublin and the French Government has awarded her an Officer des Artes et des Lettres. She received a CBE in this year's New Year's Honours List.
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