Fiona Shaw Joins 4th Season of TRUE BLOOD

According to Deadline.com, Fiona Shaw is set to join the cast of Alan Ball's True Blood for its fourth season. Th stage star will play Marnie, 'a mousy, timid and secretly self loathing storefront medium and palm reader who is taken over by the spirit of a powerful witch.'

Shaw is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Aunt petunia in the Harry Potter series. Her notable theatrical roles include Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It, Madame de Volanges in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew, Winnie in Happy Days (2007), and the title roles in Electra, The Good Person of Sechuan, Hedda Gabler (1991), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Medea. She performed T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land as a one-person show at the Liberty Theatre in New York to great acclaim in 1996, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for her performance.

Shaw played the lead in Richard II, directed by Deborah Warner in 1995. Shaw has collaborated with Warner on a number of occasions, on both stage and screen. Shaw has also worked in film and television, including My Left Foot, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Gormenghast, and a number of the Harry Potter films in which she plays the insufferable Aunt Petunia.