Andrew Tiernan

Andrew James Tiernan (born on 30 November 1965) is an English actor.

Biography

Theatre

Tiernan began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre and moved to London in 1984 to study a three-year Diploma in Acting at the Drama Centre London run by Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren. His theatre work has included Joe Penhall's The Bullet at the Donmar Warehouse, and a long-term collaboration with the Tony-nominated director Wilson Milam, including Ché Walker's Flesh Wound at the Royal Court Theatre and two critically acclaimed productions of Sam Shepard plays; A Lie of the Mind at the Donmar Warehouse and True West at the Bristol Old Vic. In 2008, Tiernan returned to the theatre in Dorota Maslowska's "A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians" at the Soho Theatre

Film

Tiernan played Piers Gaveston in Derek Jarman's controversial film of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in 1991, after appearing in Lynda La Plante's award-winning drama Prime Suspect. In the same year, he went on to star as Orlando and Oliver in Christine Edzard's version of Shakespeare's As You Like It playing alongside actors James Fox and Cyril Cusack.

He played Szalas in Roman Polanski's film The Pianist.

He has also worked with Antonia Bird on a number of improvisational film productions, including Safe (Bafta - Best single drama), Face, Rehab and Spooks.

Tiernan starred in Zack Snyder's 300, an adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel, in which he portrays Ephialtes of Trachis. Filming took place from October 2005 - January 2006 in Montreal. To portray Ephialtes, Tiernan dressed in full body prosthetics which took 10 hours each day to complete.^[1]

He appeared at Captain Martin Stone in Marko Mäkilaakso's Stone's War in 2008.

TV

In 1993, Tiernan appeared in the series Cracker in the episode "To Say I Love You". In 1998, in the British TV series Hornblower, he played Bunting in the second episode, "The Examination For Lieutenant". Other credits in television include Victor Carroon in The Quatermass Experiment and Kim Trent in Life on Mars. In 2005, he played Ben Jonson in A Waste of Shame, a William Shakespeare biopic presented as part of the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series. He recently appeared in an episode of crime drama Midsomer Murders as Steve Bright, a photography enthusiast who is strangled with his own camera strap.

Filmography

• Casualty (2009)
• Survivors (2008)
• Stone's War (2008) (post production)
• 300 (2007)
• Snuff-Movie (2006)
• The Quatermass Experiment (2005)
• The Rotters' Club (2005)
• Whose Baby? (2004)
• Rehab (2003)
• The Red Siren (2002)
• The Pianist (2002)
• The Bunker (2001)
• Mr In-Between (2001)
• Small Time Obsession (2000)
• The Criminal (1999)
• Hornblower (1998)
• The Scarlet Tunic (1998)
• Playing God (1997)
• Face (1997)
• Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
• The Sculptress (1996)
• Two Deaths (1995)

References

External links

• Andrew Tiernan Connection - Myspace Fan Site
• Andrew Tiernan Connection - Unofficial Fan Site
• Andrew Tiernan at the Internet Movie Database