Maura Tierney

At 59 years old, Maura Tierney has this physical status:

Maura Lynn Tierney (born February 3, 1965) is an American film and television actress.

She is best known for her appearances on TV (1995-1999), Abby Lockhart on the medical drama ER (1999–2009), and Helen Solloway on the mystery drama The Affair (2014–2019), the last of which received her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film. Tierney appeared in numerous films, including Primal Fear (1996), Liar Liar (1997), Primary Colors (1998), Forces of Nature (1999), Insomnia (2002), Beautiful Boy (2018), and The Report (2019).

Early life

Tierney was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, as the eldest of three children in an Irish Catholic family. Pat (née James), a real estate broker, was a Boston politician, while her father, Joseph M. Tierney, was a prominent Boston politician who served on the Boston City Council for 15 years.

Tierney attended Mount Alvernia Academy Elementary School and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Massachusetts, where she concentrated on drama, which culminated in her appearance at the Boston Globe Drama Festival. She attended New York University, where she first studied in dance and then drama, and then in drama.

Personal life

Billy Morrissette, an actress, married the actor-director Billy Morrissette on February 1, 1993, just days before her 28th birthday, when the two met on the set of an unaired television series. Due to irreconcilable inconsistencies, she filed for divorce in 2006.

Tierney officiated at the wedding of her friend and former ER co-star Parminder Nagra to photographer James Stenson on February 1, 2009.

In 2009, Tierney underwent surgery to remove a tumor from her breast. She had been cast in Parenthood, but scheduling conflicts with her cancer treatments led her to her resignation and she was replaced by Lauren Graham. Tierney completed the healing process and returned to work in a stage play in 2010.

Tierney was hit by a vehicle while riding her bike in 2018 and thrown to the ground. Despite being taken away from the ambulance wearing a neck brace, she was released from the hospital with "no major injuries."

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Career

Tierney made her first appearance in several plays before heading to Los Angeles in 1987, earning her first break with her appearance in Disney's made-for-TV film Student Exchange. Tierney's first acting appearance in a film was in Dead Women in Lingerie, a low-budget independent film that was shot in 24 days.

Tierney appeared in numerous small film and television appearances, as well as a co-starring role in 704 Hauser, a short-lived 1994 spin-off of All in the Family. She first gained national recognition for her work in the sitcom NewsRadio from 1995 to 1999. Although she was part of the NewsRadio cast, she appeared in many hit films of the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Primal Fear, Liar Liar, Primary Colors, Forces of Nature, and Welcome to Mooseport.

Tierney did not want to appear in another sitcom after NewsRadio was cancelled: he didn't want to appear in another sitcom.

Tierney played Nurse Abigail "Abby" Lockhart on ER, a character that debuted on November 1999 and then expanded to a full-time job as an ambulance nurse and a doctor later in life after completion of medical school. Khandi Alexander, a co-star on NewsRadio, was reunited with her, who at the time appeared on ER on a regular basis. Tierney's work on ER earned her an Emmy Award nomination within a year, a nodulation she attributes to a "thorough" story arc starring Sally Field as Lockhart's mother Maggie Wycenski, who suffers from bipolar disorder.

Tierney revealed in April 2008 that she would leave the Emergency Room shortly after the show's fifteenth season began. She made her final regular appearance on the show in October 2008 after nearly ten years on the series. She made a cameo appearance in one additional episode later in 2009, towards the end of the final season.

Insomnia, Christopher Nolan's second highest-profile film when being part of the ER cast, was Tierney's 2002 film Insomnia. She also appeared in Scotland, Pa., where she played a Lady Macbeth-like character created specifically for her by Billy Morrissette, her husband at the time. Critics lauded her for her success. She also coproduced with NewsRadio writer Joe Furey on a special "Working with Joe Furey" featurette for Furey's film Love and Help.

Tierney won Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown's second-season tournament against Lauren Graham, who appeared on NewsRadio for the fourth time in 2004. In May 2006, Tierney appeared alongside Eric McCormack in Some Girls' Off Broadway premiere. She appeared in the 2008 films Semi-Pro, Baby Mama, The Go-Getter, and Finding Amanda. Tierney appeared in the Off Broadway play Three Changes with Dylan McDermott from September 16 to October 4, 2008.

Tierney returned to television in 2009 and 2011, playing Kelly McPhee, the FX series Rescue Me recurring character. After Richardson left to spend more time with her family, Joely Richardson became the female lead of the ABC television show The Whole Truth in 2010. Tierney's role in the show, a legal drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, marked her return to television after recovering from breast cancer and cancer treatment. Due to poor viewership, ABC cancelled The Whole Truth after four episodes.

Tierney joined The Wooster Group, a New York City-based experimental theatre company. In the Wooster Group's 2010 remounting of North Atlantic, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, she appeared alongside Frances McDormand. She appeared in The Town Hall Affair, from 2016 to 2019, also directed by LeCompte. Tierney invented the play, which revives a raucous discussion of Women's Liberation that Norman Mailer initiated with influential feminists in 1971.

Tierney made her debut in February 2011 at the Gate Theatre in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, a play starring Ardal O'Hanlon. Tierney appeared in one episode of The Office (S8E9: "Mrs. California") as Robert California's wife.

Tierney started appearing on CBS' The Good Wife in September 2012, playing Maddie Hayward. Scenes with the show's lead character, Alicia Florrick, were performed by Julianna Margulies; the two actors had previously appeared together on ER, with Margulies like Tierney previously playing a lead character on the show. Tierney appeared on Showtime's The Affair in 2013, portraying Helen Solloway, for which she received the Golden Globe Award in 2016.

Tierney appeared alongside Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet in the dark family drama film Beautiful Boy, which is based on David Sheff's memoirs. Tierney was described in The Report as "an acute, motivated, slightly vengeful Counterterrorism specialist determined to get behind any initiative that promises to gain intelligence that will prevent another attack from happening."

In the West Coast premiere of Jen Silverman's play Witch at the Geffen Playhouse, directed by Marti Lyons, Tierney played Elizabeth.

Tierney appeared in Showtime's American Rust in March 2020.

Tierney appeared on Your Honor in October 2020.

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