Ute Shaw was born and raised in Germany. She got her first job in show business at the age of 19 as assistant to a talent manager and agent in Cologne. While raising a beautiful daughter, she started her own business and worked as a TV-Producer and organized hundreds of celebrities for many prime time shows and every major German TV-station. Shows included the German equivalent to Saturday Night Live, the Johnny Carsen show, and a candid camera show.
She was the manager and agent for German celebrities including Karl Dall, Jochen Busse, and Anke Engelke. She managed and helped build their very successful careers over the last 30 years. One of her stars hosted the German broadcast of the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, and was the host of the European Film Awards (EFA) and the film festival Berlinale.
As a Media-Consultant she was involved with the annual Zurich Filmfestival in Switzerland, arranging VIPs and organizing the judges. Over the years she has attended major award ceremonies as well as media markets such as MIPCOM.
Since the late 1990’s, she has also actively worked with charity organizations to help raise awareness and donations for worthwhile projects. She was the producer of the UNICEF Saturday night prime time Telethon on ZDF in Germany. She also actively helped the European medical aid organization Action Medeor, an organization which fights Aids and Malaria and is instantly present when catastrophies happen anywhere in the world. She also supports smaller localized charity projects in Canada, Germany, Tanzania and the Bahamas.
Ute Shaw lives in Toronto, Canada where she works with the not-for-profit 24 GOOD DEEDS, as the Head of North America. Ute has successfully launched the 24 GOOD DEEDS Charity Advent Calendar in 2020 in Canada. It was founded in Germany in 2011 (24 gute Taten Adventskalender) by Sebastian Wehkamp.
