The consummate actress, Maura Tierney has cultivated a well-respected career across film, television, and theater. Her work on the critically acclaimed Showtime series The Affair won her a Golden Globe and earned both Emmy and Critics Choice Television Award nominations. Her current film, the critically acclaimed A24 produced biopic The Iron Claw, saw Tierney as part of the NBR Award winning “Best Ensemble” alongside Lily James, Zac Efron, and Jeremy Allen White. The film follows the Von Erich wrestling dynasty and their impact on the sport from the 1960s to today. Tierney will next be seen in the 2024 film Twisters and in the upcoming second season of American Rust: Broken Justice on Prime Video co-starring Emmy Award winner Jeff Daniels.
Tierney earned kudos for her Emmy-nominated role across eight seasons of the top-rated NBC series ER. She previously sp
The consummate actress, Maura Tierney has cultivated a well-respected career across film, television, and theater. Her work on the critically acclaimed Showtime series The Affair won her a Golden Globe and earned both Emmy and Critics Choice Television Award nominations. Her current film, the critically acclaimed A24 produced biopic The Iron Claw, saw Tierney as part of the NBR Award winning “Best Ensemble” alongside Lily James, Zac Efron, and Jeremy Allen White. The film follows the Von Erich wrestling dynasty and their impact on the sport from the 1960s to today. Tierney will next be seen in the 2024 film Twisters and in the upcoming second season of American Rust: Broken Justice on Prime Video co-starring Emmy Award winner Jeff Daniels.
Tierney earned kudos for her Emmy-nominated role across eight seasons of the top-rated NBC series ER. She previously spent four years on the critically acclaimed NBC series NewsRadio. Most recently, she was seen in the Showtime Limited series Your Honor starring Bryan Cranston and appeared in the science-fiction anthology series for Amazon, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, with an impressive line-up of actors including Steve Buscemi, Bryan Cranston, and Vera Farmiga. She also had an arc on the 2012 and 2013 seasons of The Good Wife, as well as the critically acclaimed Rescue Me as the love interest of Dennis Leary’s character in 2009 and reprised the role for the show’s last season. She also starred opposite Rob Morrow in 2010 on ABC’s The Whole Truth.
Her film The Report told the story of Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones who was tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program uncovering shocking secrets. The critically acclaimed film featured Tierney starring opposite Adam Driver, Corey Stoll, and Annette Bening. Tierney also recently starred in the Prime Video film Beautiful Boy opposite Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet based on the memoir of the same name, which chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. She also starred in the independent film Anything opposite John Carroll Lynch and Matt Bomer, a film about the infinite possibility of love. Tierney’s upcoming film Twisters is the highly anticipated sequel to the 1996 disaster epic Twister and is set to hit theaters in 2024. The film produced by Warner Brothers and Frank Marshall will star Tierney alongside costars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Anthony Ramos.
Other film credits include Universal’s Baby Mama with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, New Line Cinema’s comedy Semi-Pro opposite Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, Magnolia Pictures’ Diggers opposite Paul Rudd and Ken Marino, Twentieth Century Fox’s comedy Welcome to Mooseport opposite Ray Romano and Gene Hackman, Instinct opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr., and Nature Calls with Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville. She earned critical praise for her role in Primary Colors as well as for her work opposite Jim Carrey in the smash hit Liar Liar. Tierney also appeared in the Christopher Nolan directed film Insomnia opposite Al Pacino, Hilary Swank and Robin Williams. Additional film credits include Primal Fear and Scotland PA.
Tierney has made an equal name for herself in theater. She made her Broadway debut in 2013 starring in Nora Ephron’s Lucky Guy alongside Tom Hanks. She worked with The Wooster Group, having starred in North Atlantic with Frances McDormand and most recently their production A Town Hall Affair in which she has appeared in New York, Los Angeles, Australia, London and soon to be in Japan. In 2006, she starred in the Off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute’s Some Girl(s), at the Lucille Lortel Theater, joining the cast with Eric McCormack, Fran Drescher, Judy Reyes and Brooke Smith. Additionally, she starred in Nicky Silver’s Three Changes with Dylan McDermott and in Yasmina Reza’s award-winning God of Carnage at the prestigious Gate Theater in Dublin.
Born and raised in Boston, she currently divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.
