Maura Tierney: Summary
- Recent Role:
- Dr. Abby Lockhart on ER
- Gender:
- Female
- Birthday:
- 2-3-1965
- Birthplace:
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Birth Name:
- Maura Lynn Tierney
Like countless other Hollywood hopefuls, Maura struggled to get noticed and land a breakthrough role. Her first jobs were in made-for-TV movies: she played a mean cheerleader in Disney's 1987 movie for ABC titled Student Exchange, and had a forgettable role in the 1988 movie Crossing the Mob. That same year she was cast in The Van Dyke Show, a short lived series on CBS. This was followed by guest appearances on various television series like Family Ties, Booker, and Law & Order.
Maura's feature film debut was in 1991's Dead Women in Lingerie, though her formal resume lists her first movie credit as 1991's The Linguini Incident. Maura Lynn Tierney was born on February 3, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts, the oldest of three children, to a prosperous politician father, Joseph Tierney, and a real estate agent mother, Pat Tierney. She grew up in the exclusive Hyde Park district of Boston and attended Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Hingham, Massachusetts. In 1983 she moved to New York to...
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- 04/26/08 04:20am | report abuse
SHE IS AMAZING! She is so is so intruiging. I love watching her on ER every week and if she is not on ER it is not as interesting. She is good in any role she plays even if it is for a few minutes, she is just fun to watch. She should win so many awards. ...Continue »
- 04/12/08 10:36pm | report abuse
Maura Tierney is an amazingly talented actress, one of such caliber that she outranks many stars who have somehow gotten more famous than she. She deserves awards and recognition for being one of the best actors of our time. ...Continue »
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