Registration for this event will open on Monday, September 21 at 12 PM.
Celebrated and BAFTA Award-winning star of the stage and screen, Fiona Shaw. Introduced by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Speak Now is a new speaker series at Columbia University School of the Arts. Speak Now features artists whose work reaches a broad public and embodies the spirit of adventurous creativity that is the hallmark of the School of the Arts.
Fiona Shaw is an Cork-born actor who has become one of Great Britain’s most celebrated stage and screen treasures. Appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and awarded the Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, she is renowned internationally for her contributions to dramatic arts.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), Fiona has led a number of major productions. She was named Best Actress at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her performances in Machinal at London’s National Theatre and Medea in the West End of London. The former brought her a Lawrence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress, and the latter brought her an Obie Award and Tony Award nomination when the play moved to Broadway. She also received both the Lawrence Olivier and Evening Standard awards as Best Actress for her performances in Electra and The Good Person of Sichuan, and The London Critics Award for her performance as Hedda Gabler.
In New York, her work has included Happy Days at Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Testament of Mary on Broadway. She was awarded the New York Critics Prize for The Waste Land performed at Liberty Theatre.
Recently Shaw won a BAFTA Award for her performance in the hit series Killing Eve, which also brought her a Primetime Emmy nomination. In the same year, she received an Emmy nomination for Fleabag. Her recent work on television also includes her Emmy nominated performances in Andor. Known to Irish Audiences for Bad Sisters, she has just finished shooting an upcoming series in Hollywood called Presumed Innocent, also Pride and Prejudice for Netflix. Her film credits include the recurring role of Petunia Dursley in five Harry Potter films, Bob Rafelson’s Mountains of the Moon,Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, and recently Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, Park Avenue, Ammonite, Colette, and soon to be released, the movie of Sense and Sensibility, Ladies First, The Education Of Jane Cumming, and her first cowboy film, Stalemate.