Biografia

A fitness enthusiast, Shaw commutes around her home base in London on her bicycle.

Her mother was a physicist and her father was an eye surgeon.

Throughout the Harry Potter movie series, Shaw played "Petunia Dursley", Harry Potter's aunt, who had a strong aversion to any mention of or person connected to witchcraft or wizardry. Soon after finishing the last Potter movie, she started playing a witch possessed by a much-more powerful witch on the TV show, True Blood (2008).

Graduated from University College Cork.

She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Actress in her performance for "Machinal" at the Royal National Theatre.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.