Nicholas Shaw

Nicholas Shaw is an English actor born in 1982. He completed his secondary education at McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster before training at the Drama Centre London, where he graduated in 2004.

Shaw's screen career began the same year he graduated, when he took the lead role of Doug in The Rotters Club, a television series adapted from Jonathan Coe's novel. He subsequently appeared in guest roles across several British television productions, including Dalziel & Pascoe, Heartbeat, and Afterlife, and portrayed the poet John Keats in The Romantics. In 2006, he took on the lead role of Justin in the eight-part series Goldplated, and the following year starred in the television film All About Me alongside Phoebe Nicholls, Danny Webb, and Phil Davis. His television work continued with an appearance in a 2008 episode of Heroes and Villains focused on Hernán Cortés, in which he played Sandoval, and a role in the 2010 film The Possession of David O'Reilly. From 2010 to 2012, he portrayed John Fisher in the BBC series Land Girls.

Shaw's stage career has spanned major British theatrical institutions. In 2005, he played Benjamin in the Oxford Stage Company's UK tour of August Strindberg's Easter, in Gregory Moton's translation and directed by Dominic Dromgoole, a performance that earned him a commendation at the Ian Charleson Awards the following year. During the summer of 2007, he appeared in two productions at Shakespeare's Globe: The Merchant of Venice, alongside John McEnery, and Jack Shepherd's Holding Fire!, again directed by Dromgoole. The summer of 2008 saw him play Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Lysander in Twelfth Night, both at the Open Air Theatre in London.

In 2011, Shaw took the title role in Northern Broadsides' production of Hamlet. He returned to Northern Broadsides in February 2013 to play John in their production of Githa Sowerby's Rutherford and Son, adapted by Blake Morrison, which toured across Britain before closing at the St James Theatre in London in June of that year. In March 2012, he played the central character Misail Alexandrovich Polznev in Peter Gill's adaptation of Chekhov's A Provincial Life at National Theatre Wales in Cardiff.

Shaw made his Broadway debut in 2015, appearing in Wolf Hall Parts One & Two.