RIP Jimmy Shaw

 

American born actor Jimmy Shaw died in Lisbon, Portugal after an operation for pancreatic cancer on October 11^th. He was only 59. He was born in Los Angeles on April 6, 1966, and raised in Northern coastal Massachusetts. He went to New York on a journalism scholarship to The School of Visual Arts. In 2001 he went to Spain to study Spanish for three months and was offered a job as an English teacher and stayed. He leaped to international popularity within the Spanish speaking world as Matthew on Spain's prime time hit comedy series "La Que Se Avecina" where he had a recurring role for three seasons, He was Peter Fox in the internationally acclaimed Spanish miniseries "El Tiempo Entre Costuras" (Netflix) and turned his reputation in Spain as a standout comedy performer on its head with a nuanced dramatic performance. He went on to work in numerous Spanish prime time series and films and balanced a career between Madrid and Los Angeles. Shaw appeared in three Euro-westerns: as a prisoner in 2012’s “Dust & Bullets”, as Cam McKewan in the 2022 TV mini-series “The English” and as an American accent advisor on 2023’s “Strange Way of Life”.