Her better known act would become when styler Maxine Peacock in the long-running, popular British detergent 'Coronation Street' which is set & filmed around Manchester, England. Shaws's character met the tragical & unlucky prevent around 2002 when she was murdered by Richard Hillman. She has too appeared within many ITV dramas. Inside 2003 Shaw appeared as Sally in the stage play 'The Blue Room', starring alongside a bare Jason Connery (Sean Connery's son).

Shaw has struggled using bulimia and is reported to have had problems sustaining her marriage.