1. Maura Therese Tierney was born on February 3,1965 and is an American actress.
36 Facts About Maura Tierney
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Maura Tierney is best known for her roles in the sitcom NewsRadio, the medical drama ER as Abby Lockhart and the mystery drama The Affair.
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Maura Tierney was born and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest of three children in an Irish American Catholic family.
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Maura Tierney's mother Pat is a real estate broker, while her father, Joseph M Tierney, was a prominent Boston politician who served on the Boston City Council for 15 years.
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Maura Tierney attended Mount Alvernia Academy Elementary School and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Massachusetts, where she studied drama, which led to her appearance at the Boston Globe Drama Festival.
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Maura Tierney's first starring role in a film was in a low-budget independent film called Dead Women in Lingerie, which was shot in 24 days.
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Maura Tierney had a number of small roles in film and television and a co-starring role in 704 Hauser, a short-lived 1994 spin-off of All in the Family.
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Maura Tierney first received regular national exposure with her leading role in the sitcom NewsRadio from 1995 to 1999.
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From 1999 to 2008, Maura Tierney played Nurse Abigail "Abby" Lockhart on ER, a character that began as a guest appearance in November 1999 and then expanded in February 2000 to a full-time regular role as an ER nurse and later after completion of medical school, a doctor.
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Maura Tierney was reunited with her NewsRadio co-star Khandi Alexander, who at that time had a recurring role on ER.
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Maura Tierney confirmed in April 2008 that she would be leaving ER shortly after the beginning of the show's fifteenth season.
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Maura Tierney returned to make a cameo appearance in one additional episode later in 2009 toward the end of the final season.
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Maura Tierney collaborated with NewsRadio writer Joe Furey for a special "Working with Joe Furey" featurette for Furey's film Love and Support.
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In 2004, Maura Tierney won the second-season tournament of Celebrity Poker Showdown against Lauren Graham, who had a guest role in the fourth season of NewsRadio.
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Maura Tierney returned to the stage in May 2006 in an appearance opposite Eric McCormack in the Off-Broadway premiere of Some Girl.
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Maura Tierney appeared in the 2008 films Semi-Pro, Baby Mama, The Go-Getter and Finding Amanda.
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Maura Tierney played the role of Laurel in the Off-Broadway play Three Changes with Dylan McDermott from September 16 to October 4,2008.
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Maura Tierney returned to television, playing the recurring character Kelly McPhee on Rescue Me in 2009 and 2011 during its final season.
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Maura Tierney replaced Joely Richardson as the female lead of The Whole Truth after Richardson left to spend more time with her family.
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Maura Tierney performed along with Frances McDormand in the Wooster Group's 2010 remounting of North Atlantic, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte.
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Maura Tierney herself conceived the idea for this play, which recreates a raucous debate on Women's Liberation that Norman Mailer organized with prominent feminists in 1971.
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In February 2011, Maura Tierney made her debut at the Gate Theatre in the Dublin premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage alongside Ardal O'Hanlon.
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Also in 2011, Maura Tierney appeared in one episode of The Office as Robert California's wife.
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In September 2012, Maura Tierney began a recurring role on the legal drama The Good Wife, playing Maddie Hayward.
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The role included scenes with the show's lead character Alicia Florrick, as played by Julianna Margulies; the two actors had previously worked together on ER, Margulies like Maura Tierney having previously played a lead character on that show.
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In 2013, Maura Tierney joined the cast of The Affair, playing Helen Solloway, for which she won the Golden Globe Award in 2016.
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In 2018, Maura Tierney co-starred with Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet in the dark family drama film Beautiful Boy, based on the memoir of the same name by David Sheff.
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In March 2020, Maura Tierney joined the cast of American Rust.
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In October 2020, Maura Tierney joined the cast of Your Honor.
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In 1992, Maura Tierney met actor-director Billy Morrissette on the first day he arrived in Los Angeles.
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Morrissette directed, and both he and Maura Tierney appear in, the 2001 film Scotland, PA.
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Maura Tierney filed for divorce in 2006 due to irreconcilable differences.
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On February 1,2009, Maura Tierney officiated at the wedding of her friend and former ER co-star Parminder Nagra to photographer James Stenson.
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Maura Tierney had surgery to remove a tumor from her breast in 2009.
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Maura Tierney had been cast in Parenthood but schedule conflicts with her cancer treatments led her to leave and she was replaced by Lauren Graham.
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Maura Tierney finished treatment and returned to work in a stage play in 2010.