Maura Tierney

Maura Tierney

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Birthday: 
3 February 1965, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birth Name: 
Maura Lynn Tierney
Height: 
157 cm
On the viewing horizon since the late 1980s, actress Maura Tierney has been a steady product of independent features, some hits and some misses, for close to a decade and a half. An odd and compelling beauty, she came from an upperscale Bostonian family and was raised in the Hyde Park district. Born February 3, 1965, the eldest child of three to a ... Show more »
On the viewing horizon since the late 1980s, actress Maura Tierney has been a steady product of independent features, some hits and some misses, for close to a decade and a half. An odd and compelling beauty, she came from an upperscale Bostonian family and was raised in the Hyde Park district. Born February 3, 1965, the eldest child of three to a prosperous politician and city councilman father and real estate agent mother, Maura initially studied at New York University but left school prior to graduation when she hooked up with the Circle-in-the-Square theater school. Following some stage plays including "Baby with the Bathwater" and "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," she moved to the West Coast in the late 1980s finding minor roles here and there in TV-movies and making the rounds on episodic shows such as Growing Pains (1985), Family Ties (1982) and Law & Order (1990). She met actor/husband Billy Morrissette after both were fired from the set of an eventually-scrapped Ralph Macchio series. After a few other failed pilots and a short-lived TV series, Maura made a minor film debut with The Linguini Incident (1991) and progressed to leading lady status in the B-movie spoof Dead Women in Lingerie (1991), which didn't go over well. She finally hit paydirt on TV when she won a female co-lead as smart but insecure newswriter Lisa Miller on the comedy series NewsRadio (1995). The show sailed along for a number of seasons due to the fine comedy instincts of Dave Foley, Andy Dick and the late Saturday Night Live (1975) player Phil Hartman. The show lost its oomph, however, as well as its audience after Hartman's tragic 1998 shotgun slaying, despite an assured replacement in fellow Saturday Night Live (1975) alumni Jon Lovitz. The show couldn't escape its bad aura, and it was gone the following year.Maura's work on the TV sitcom thrust her into the film comedy limelight with prominent roles in such films as the Jim Carrey vehicle Liar Liar (1997). She also showed up as sly, darker-edged femmes in the thriller Primal Fear (1996), Primary Colors (1998) and Instinct (1999). She received one of her best art-house roles as a heavy in her husband's feature Scotland, Pa. (2001)--he wrote and directed. It was back to steady TV work, however, into the millennium with the role of Abby, who was first a nurse and then a doctor, in the long-established and critically-acclaimed medical drama series ER (1994), where she still resides on the staff. The L.A.-based actress and her husband enjoy traveling in their spare time. Show less «

Maura Tierney's FILMOGRAPHY

American Rust - Season 2

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 21

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The Talk - Season 14

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The Iron Claw

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Your Honor - Season 2

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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 11

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 20

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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 10

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 19

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The Talk - Season 13

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American Rust - Season 1

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 18

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Your Honor - Season 1

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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 8

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Watch What Happens: Live - Season 17

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The Affair - Season 5

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The Report

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The Affair - Season 4

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Beautiful Boy

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The Daily Show - Season 23

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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Season 1

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Anything

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The Daily Show - Season 22

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Maura Tierney'S roles

Rachel Clement
Rachel Clement
Audrey Reede
Audrey Reede
Caroline
Caroline
Lynn
Lynn
Lynn Powell
Lynn Powell
Abby Lockhart
Abby Lockhart
Helen Solloway
Helen Solloway
Tanya
Tanya
Maddie Hayward
Maddie Hayward
Kelly McPhee
Kelly McPhee
Helen Solloway
Helen Solloway
Karen Barbour
Karen Barbour