Jimmy Shaw

Jimmy Shaw is an American actor who has worked in film, television and theater. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Northern coastal Massachusetts. A journalism scholarship took him to New York and to The School of Visual Arts. A classmate asked him to help with an audition piece, Lyle Kessler's Orphans, for Uta Hagen's class at HB Studios; he had no lines but was accepted. His New York stage debut came as Karel in Charles Busch's Off Broadway comedy The Lady In Question at The Orpheum Theatre. He had smaller parts in series including Will and Grace, Sisters, Beverly Hills 90210 and Major Dad. After moving to Spain in 2001, he became known as Matthew on La Que Se Avecina and played Peter Fox in El Tiempo Entre Costuras. He returned to El Ministerio del Tiempo as Paul Walcott and received rave reviews in 2008 for his solo performance as Christopher in Dream Man.