FrameThrower · Actors · Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw
6 films · 496 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2025
Born 10 July 1958 · County Cork, Ireland
Fiona Shaw is an Irish film and theatre actress. She did extensive work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, as well as in film and television. In 2020, she was listed at No. 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. She was made an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2001.
She won both the 1990 and 1994 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for roles in the plays Electra, As You Like It, The Good Person of Szechwan (1990), and Machinal (1994) and received a further three Olivier Award nominations for her roles in Mephisto (1986), Hedda Gabler (1992), and Happy Days (2008).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 496 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2025
- British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress2019
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- honorary doctorate1999
- Theatre World Award1997
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show1997
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 496 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Fiona takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Fiona takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 496 frames from Fiona Shaw's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.