Andrew Tiernan

Andrew James Tiernan (born 30 November 1965) is a British actor and director.

Early life Tiernan spent his childhood in Ladywood, Birmingham. He began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre, and worked at the Midlands Art Centre, In 2008, Tiernan returned to the theatre in Dorota Maslowska's A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians co-starring with Andrea Riseborough at the Soho Theatre.

Film Tiernan played Piers Gaveston in Derek Jarman's controversial film of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II (1991), after appearing in Lynda La Plante's award-winning drama Prime Suspect, alongside Helen Mirren. He portrayed the character again in the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire (2014).

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

TV In 1993, Tiernan appeared in the series Cracker, in the episode "To Say I Love You". In 1997, he played Banquo in the Shakespeare adaptation for BBC MacBeth on the Estate alongside James Frain and Susan Vidler. 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, Kim Trent in Life on Mars and Lenny Spearfish in the BBC TV series Jonathan Creek, in "The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish" (1999). 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 appeared in an episode of crime drama Midsomer Murders, as Steve Bright, a photography enthusiast who is strangled with his own camera strap and in Dalziel & Pascoe as a lottery winner in the two-part episodes "Fallen Angel". In 2012, he appeared as DS Hunter in the BBC drama Prisoners' Wives.

Directing In 2015, Tiernan made his directorial debut with the feature film Dragonfly, followed in 2017 by UK18, and in 2019 by Break Clause.

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