ABSTRACT
Fiona Shaw has performed many key stage roles, including Celia to Juliet Stevenson’s Rosalind in the RSC production in Stratford of As You Like It (1986), and Rosalind in Tim Albery’s production of the same play at the Old Vic Theatre (1989). Her extensive credits include work with director Deborah Warner in Elektra (stage and film versions) and the controversial production of Beckett’s Footfalls in 1994. She won Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role in Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, produced at the Royal National Theatre in 1993/4. She played the eponymous king in Deborah Warner’s production of Richard II, at the National Theatre in 1995. She has also worked extensively in TV and film, including roles in My Left Foot, Mountains of the Moon, and the 1995 BBC television production of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. She is also a theatre director, and has recently toured in Ireland with her version of Hamlet. In 1994/5, she directed workshops and production extracts from As You Like It for the Open University BBC (see photo).
