Darwin Shaw

Darwin Shaw is an English stage, film and television actor. Formerly a medical doctor he retrained as an actor at LAMDA in 2004 after studying theatre in New York City. --- Shaw, the eldest of two boys was born in Brampton, Cumbria, England, where his grandfather was the local vicar (a relation of Orde Wingate). Shaw grew up in Leeds where his mother was a social worker and nurse and his father worked as a special needs teacher and race relations advisor for the BBC. He attended King's College London where he graduated as a medical doctor. Shaw's first job after graduating from LAMDA was in Deborah Warner's production of Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre with a cast which included Ralph Fiennes, Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale. His first feature film role was as Fisher, James Bond's first kill, in the opening of 2006's Casino Royale that introduced Daniel Craig as the new 007, and was directed by Martin Campbell. He played the jilted fiancée of Bollywood star Lisa Ray in the independent film I Can't Think Straight. Shaw played Asoka in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time released May 2010 in an action role protecting Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) and the dagger of time from Prince Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney production directed by Mike Newell. Sir Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina lead the accomplished cast which includes Ronald Pickup, Richard Coyle and Toby Kebbell. He worked for Pixar in spring, 2010, on the film John Carter of Mars with an ensemble cast which includes Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Taylor Kitsch and Dominic West directed by Oscar winner Andrew Stanton and in the following year in opening scene of Prometheus directed by Ridley Scottas one of the Elder Engineers.