- Juliet Shaw
Infobox character
name = Juliet Shaw
caption =
portrayer =Anna Chancellor
gender = Female
first = 2005
last = current
last_cause =
occupation = Head of Yalta, former National Security Coordinator
family = Unknown
spouse = Unknown
children = UnknownJuliet Shaw is a fictional character in the British TV show
Spooks , portrayed by British actressAnna Chancellor . She rose fast as a spy, achieving the position of National Security Coordinator, at the Cabinet Office. She worked withHarry Pearce on a number of operations during the 1970s.Harry Pearce describes her as ruthless, right-wing, and crazy, who'll stop at nothing to protect Britain. She is driven and single-minded, with a take-no-prisoners attitude, which some find highly attractive. She cares little for the impact of her words, and will often talk bluntly rather than in a roundabout way.She was left apparently paralysed from the waist down by a car bomb attack on the Home Secretary, Nicholas Blake in Series 5 Episode 1, during a chain of terrorist attacks, but reappeared later in the series in a wheelchair. Juliet may harbour a grudge against
Ros Myers , since it was her father, Sir Jocelyn Myers, who organised the chain of attacks that ultimately led to the car bomb and her paralysis. However, she reappears in series 6 as a high-ranking Yalta operative – stating that she had been working with the CIA under deep cover – freely walking around and apparently unparalysed which may suggest she has been in their employ for some time...In the same episode that she is revealed as a member of Yalta, she is the person who 'kills' Ros by injecting her with what she thought was a lethal nerve agent. Believing Ros to be dead, Juliet escaped to fight another day; however, unbeknownst to her, Adam had switched the syringes and so Ros was merely put into a death-like state until her funeral, where Adam helped her escape into anonymity.
External links
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/spooks/personnel_js.shtml BBC site]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/01/spooks_anna.shtml Press release]
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