Shaw was born in Liverpool and grew up in the suburb of Mossley Hill where she attended the Belvedere Academy.
[1] She took Saturday acting classes at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) from the age of 5 and then joined the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre at the age of 14, participating weekly and appearing in the company's Fiddler On The Roof and Romeo and Juliet productions in 2017.
[3] Shaw played Holly Meredith in Morecambe-based ITV crime drama The Bay alongside Morven Christie and Chanel Cresswell.
[4] In 2021, Shaw began starring as Jessie in The Irregulars, a Netflix paranormal show based on the world of Sherlock Holmes.
[5][6][7] Sky UK announced that Shaw would appear in a film about the British ceramic artist Clarice Cliff titled The Colour Room, alongside Phoebe Dynevor in the lead role, as well as Matthew Goode, David Morrissey, Kerry Fox and Luke Norris.