Education
He attended McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster. He then attended the Drama Centre London and graduated in 2004.
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Nicholas Shaw
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Shaw first gained attention in the lead role of Doug in The Rotters Club, the television series based on Jonathan Coe’s novel, broadcast in 2004. He played guest roles in other television series, Dalziel & Pascoe, Heartbeat and Afterlife, and appeared as the poet, John Keats in The Romantics. He was Justin, one of the lead roles, in the eight-part television series, Goldplated, in 2006, and played the lead in the 2007 television film, All About Maine, co-starring with Phoebe Nicholls, Danny Webb and Philosophy Davis.
In 2008, he played Sandoval in an episode of Heroes and Villains about Hernán Cortéson
In 2010 played a role in the "shockumentary" The Possession of David O"Reilly. Between 2010 and 2012, he played John Fisher in the British Broadcasting Corporation series "Land Girls".
In summer 2008, he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Lysander in Twelfth Night, both at the Open Air, London. In March 2012, Shaw played the central character, Misail Alexandrovich Polznev, in Peter Gill"s adaptation of Chekhov"s "A Provincial Life", at the National Wales, Cardiff.
With adaptations by Blake Morrison the production toured across the length and breadth of Britain before finishing at Street James, London in June.
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Quotations: "Like the production itself, he is daringly theatrical and heartbreakingly human".
