Fiona Shaw
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"Fiona Mary Shaw", Order of the British Empire/CBE is an Irish actress and theatre and opera director. Although to international audiences she is primarily known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter (film series)/Harry Potter films or her role portraying List of True Blood characters#Seasonal antagonists/Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood, she is an accomplished classical actress. She has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre/National Theatre and was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire/CBE in 2001.

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The way I look at it is that I am a non-man playing somebody who perceives himself to be a non-man.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

I've enjoyed it and I would like to make more films because it allows me this terrible time I need to find out what it is I want to do.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

You can get very self-important about it, but the point is it's play.