Post your questions for Fiona Shaw
<p>Four decades of roles on stage and screen range from Petunia Dursley in Harry Potter to Richard II, via My Left Foot, Fleabag and Super Mario Bros. Now she’s ready to discuss her career with you</p><p>You might associate Fiona Shaw with the theatre, and perhaps rightly so – she has won a stack of awards and wall to wall acclaim for many stage performances stretching back to the start of her acting career in the 1980s. These include the original RSC production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, Machinal in 1993 and (somewhat outrageously at the time), as Shakespeare’s Richard II in 1995.</p><p>But a talent as fine as this is not going to be left alone for long by the film and TV industries, and Shaw has been in demand on screen for decades. Her first biggish film role was as Christy Brown’s doctor in My Left Foot, and she went on to do a wild variety of things, some you might expect (Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, The Butcher Boy) and some you definitely wouldn’t – Three Men and a Little Lady, The Avengers (not that one, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(1998_film)">the other one</a>) and the legendarily bad Super Mario Bros.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/22/post-your-questions-for-fiona-shaw-petunia-dursley-harry-potter">Continue reading...</a>
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