Actress Fiona Shaw has revealed how she nearly quit acting after feeling “no joy” at one point in her career.<\/p>\n
The 68-year-old is best known for starring in Killing Eve and the Harry Potter franchise as the cold and repressed aunt Petunia Dursley.<\/p>\n
Despite her long and acclaimed career, the award-winning actress said she considered quitting in 2013 while she was performing in a New York production of The Testament Of Mary, a stage adaptation of Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn\u2019s novella.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Good Houskeeping UK, she said: “I was running one day between the matinee and the evening performance, and I saw the sign outside the theatre with my name on it.<\/p>\n
“I felt no joy. I just felt tired.<\/p>\n
“I thought I might stop acting and teach.”<\/p>\n
Shaw stars as wealthy widower and eager matchmaker Mrs Jennings alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in the upcoming Dolly Alderton film adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s Sense And Sensibility.<\/p>\n
Shaw said Edgar-Jones was a “lovely, enchanting girl” and that she has “every quality that I didn\u2019t have at her age; she can withhold”.<\/p>\n
“When I was in my late 20s, I was busy saying, \u2018Watch me do this!\u2019 It took a long time to learn that the camera doesn\u2019t want you to do any of that. I\u2019ve got it now, I think,” she added.<\/p>\n
The actress said her life has “surpassed any expectations” she had, and that despite being a film and TV star, she feels she is “quite ordinary”, describing herself as a “young old person”.<\/p>\n
Shaw was named best supporting actress at the Bafta TV awards in 2019 for her role as senior MI6 officer Carolyn Martens in Phoebe Waller-Bridge\u2019s BBC thriller Killing Eve.<\/p>\n
She also has won a number of Olivier awards including Actress of the Year in 1989\/1990 for her performances in Electra, As You Like It and The Good Person Of Sichuan followed by the best actress gong in 1994 for her role in Machinal at the National Theatre.<\/p>\n
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