Fiona Shaw is Agrippa on Empire

		Sunday, Nov 23, 2008 08:40:28 AM

	EMPIRE

	JONATHAN CAKE as Tyrannus

	SANTIAGO CABRERA as Octavius

	EMILY BLUNT as Camane

	CHRIS EGAN as Agrippa

	VINCENT REGAN as Marc Antony

	DENNIS HAYSBERT as Magonius

	TRUDIE STYLER as Servilia

	JAMES FRAIN as Brutus

	COLM FEORE as Julius Caesar

	MICHAEL BYRNE as Cicero

	MICHAEL MALONEY as Cassius

	FIONA SHAW as Fulvia


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Fiona Shaw
Fulvia on the epic series Empire

Fiona Shaw, whom worldwide audiences will recognize for her comical characterization as Harry's wicked Aunt Petunia in the smash box office hits, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," will portray Roman matron Fulvia, an unusual, politically ambitious woman during Caesar's time.

Her other big screen appearances include starring as a criminal profiler in the U.K. film "Mind Games," the crime thriller "Doctor Sleep" with "ER's" Goran Visnjic, the Daniel Day-Lewis drama "My Left Foot," "The Avengers," opposite Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery, "Three Men and a Little Lady," "London Kills Me," "Super Mario Bros.," "Undercover Blues," co-starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid, "Jane Eyre," "Anna Karenina," "The Butcher Boy," "The Last September," the Italian romantic comedy "The Triumph of Love," co-starring with Mira Sorvino and Ben Kingsley, "Sacred Hearts," "The Man Who Shot Christmas," "Mountains of the Moon," by director Bob Rafelson, and "Persuasion."

Fiona's previous U.S. television appearances include portraying Hedda Hopper in the Orson Welles HBO biopic, "RKO 281," the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama, "The Seventh Stream," and the fantasy miniseries "Gormenghast." She has acted in numerous television films, with title roles in "Hedda Gabler" and "Richard II," as well as parts in "Love Song," "For the Greater Good," "Maria's Child," "The Wasteland" and the series "Great Britons." Additionally she has appeared on the British series' "The Last Machine" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

Fiona has repeatedly been recognized for her work in the theater. She has been honored with four Laurence Olivier Awards ("Electra," "As You Like It," "The Good Person of Sichaun" and "Machinal"), three London Critics Awards ("Electra," "The Good Person of Sichuan" and "Hedda Gabler") and two London Evening Standard Awards ("Machinal" and "Medea"). In 2001 she was awarded an honary CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and she has been presented with doctorates from the National University of Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, where she was also named Honorary Professor of Drama.

Additional stage performances include Royal Shakespeare Company productions of "Philistines," "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," "Mephisto," "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Merchant of Venice," "Hyde Park," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "New Inn"; as well as "The Powerbook," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," "The Waste Land," "Love's Labours Lost," "The Rivals" and "Bloody Poetry." She is a credited director for the NT Education Tour of "The Widower's Houses" and the Abbey Theatre Dublin's production of "Hamlet."

PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN County Cork, Ireland
BIRTHDATE July 10

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