Maura Lynn Tierney

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• Name: MAURA LYNN TIERNEY
• English name: MAURA LYNN TIERNEY
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Description: On the viewing horizon since the late 1980s, actress maura tierney has been a steady product of independent features, some hits and some misses, for close to a decade and a half. an odd and compelling beauty, she came from an upscale bostonian family and was raised in the hyde park district.born february 3, 1965, the eldest child of three of pat, a real estate agent, and joseph m. tierney, a prosperous politician and city councilman, maura lynn tierney initially studied at new york university. she left school prior to graduation when she hooked up with the circle-in-the-square theater school. following some stage plays including "baby with the bathwater" and "danny and the deep blue sea," she moved to the west coast in the late 1980s finding minor roles here and there in tv-movies and making the rounds on episodic shows such asgrowing pains(1985),family ties(1982) andlaw & order(1990). she met actor/husbandbilly morrissetteafter both were fired from the set of an eventually-scrappedralph macchioseries.after a few other failed pilots and a short-lived tv series, maura made a minor film debut withthe linguini incident(1991) and progressed to leading lady status in the b-movie spoofdead women in lingerie(1991), which didn't go over well. she finally hit paydirt on tv when she won a female co-lead as smart but insecure newswriter lisa miller on the comedy seriesnewsradio(1995). the show sailed along for a number of seasons due to the fine comedy instincts ofdavid foley,andy dickand the latesaturday night live(1975) playerphil hartman. the show lost its oomph, however, as well as its audience after hartman's tragic 1998 gunshot slaying, despite an assured replacement in fellowsaturday night live(1975) alumnijon lovitz. the show couldn't escape its bad aura, and it was gone the following year.maura's work on the tv sitcom thrust her into the film comedy limelight with prominent roles in such films as thejim carreyvehicleliar liar(1997). she also showed up as sly, darker-edged femmes in the thrillerprimal fear(1996),primary colors(1998) andinstinct(1999).into the millennium, maura received one of her best art-house roles as a heavy in her husband's featurescotland, pa.(2001) which he wrote and directed. following that came a mixture of offbeat parts in such films as the mystery thrillerinsomnia(2002) starringal pacinoandrobin williams; the romantic comedywelcome to mooseport(2004) withgene hackmanandray romano; thepaul rudddramedydiggers(2006); the sports comedysemi-pro(2008) withwill ferrellandsteve guttenberg; thetina fey/amy poehlerslapstick comedybaby mama(2008); and, more recently,nature calls(2012),anything(2017) andbeautiful boy(2018) oppositesteve carell.she also found steady tv work with the role of abby, who was first a nurse and then a doctor, in the long-established and critically-acclaimed medical drama serieser(1994), where she remained on the staff until the show left the air in 2009. she also found recurring roles onrescue me(2004),the good wife(2009) andthe affair(2014), and co-starred in the short-lived legal dramathe whole truth(2010) withrob morrow.

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• Birth date: Feb. 3, 1965, midnight
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• Height: 160

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