Born Patsy Sloots, Shaw' career began in the aftermath of World Wr II, with her first notable role in the British noir It Always Rains on Sunday. Her second husband Bruno Colleano was killed in a car accident in 1958, a loss from which Shaw never recovered. She died , aged only 49, in 1978.

• It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

  
• To the Public Danger (1948)

  
• 三十儿立 (2017)

  
• The Diplomatic Corpse (1958)

  
• My Brother's Keeper (1948)