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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw is an internationally-renowned Irish actor. Amongst her awards are:
The 2019 BAFTA Award, Best Supporting Actor: Killing Eve; and Best Actress Awards for: Electra; The Good Person of Sichuan; As You Like It; Hedda Gabler; Machinal at NT; Medea; Outstanding Solo Performance, TS Eliot’s, The Wasteland.

Her work on Irish writers includes: Samuel Beckett‘s Footfalls; Happy Days, NT; Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín, Barbican.

Work at The Abbey Theatre, Dublin: Hedda Gabler; John Gabriel Borkman; Happy Days and Medea.

Amongst her screen appearances: Killing Eve; Fleabag; Aunt Petunia in all the Harry Potter films; My Left Foot.

Readings

W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Fiona Shaw
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W.B. Yeats: 'Politics' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'A Woman Homer Sung' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Leda and The Swan' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Mermaid' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Second Coming' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'The Stolen Child' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Easter, 1916' read by Fiona Shaw
W.B. Yeats: 'Adam's Curse' read by Fiona Shaw
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