Maura Tierney

Maura Tierney

Born: February 3, 1965
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maura Tierney (born February 3, 1965) is an American film and television actress, who is best known for her roles on NewsRadio and ER as well as The Affair, for which she won the Golden Globe Award in 2016.

Movies for Maura Tierney...

Twisters
Title: Twisters
Character: Cathy
Released: July 17, 2024
Type: Movie
As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Cooper, lured back to the open plains after a devastating encounter years prior, and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
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The Iron Claw
Title: The Iron Claw
Character: Doris "Dottie" Von Erich
Released: December 21, 2023
Type: Movie
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
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Title: American Rust
Character: Grace Poe
Released: September 12, 2021
Type: TV
A compelling family drama and a timeless story told through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris of a Pennsylvania Rust Belt town full of good people making bad choices.
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Fiona McKee
Released: December 6, 2020
Type: TV
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
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The Report
Title: The Report
Character: Bernadette
Released: September 12, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
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Title: Busy Tonight
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 28, 2018
Type: TV
Busy Phillips gives her hilarious and outspoken opinions on the latest pop culture stories and trending topics with candid celebrity guest interviews and original comedic segments.
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Beautiful Boy
Title: Beautiful Boy
Character: Karen Barbour
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
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Anything
Title: Anything
Character: Laurette Sachman
Released: May 11, 2018
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
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Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Irene Lee
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
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Title: The Affair
Character: Helen Solloway
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: TV
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.
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Title: Ruth & Erica
Character: Erica
Released: September 24, 2012
Type: TV
A woman struggles with her mother's reluctance to make the life changes necessary in light of her increasing frailty.
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Nature Calls
Title: Nature Calls
Character: Janine
Released: March 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Polar-opposite brothers Randy and Kirk never saw eye-to-eye, but their rivalry is taken to a new level when Randy hijacks Kirk's son's sleepover, taking the boys on a Scout Trip to remember.
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Title: The Whole Truth
Character: Kathryn Peale
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: TV
As District Attorney Kathryn Peale and defense attorney Jimmy Nolan rally their teams around their arguments and prepare to go head-to-head in the the courtroom, they make frantic moves and countermoves of complex legal wrangling to tilt justice in their favor.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Maddie Hayward
Released: September 22, 2009
Type: TV
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
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Title: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character: Self - Guest
Released: July 16, 2009
Type: TV
Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.
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Finding Amanda
Title: Finding Amanda
Character: Lorraine Mendon
Released: June 27, 2008
Type: Movie
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
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Baby Mama
Title: Baby Mama
Character: Caroline
Released: April 25, 2008
Type: Movie
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
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Semi-Pro
Title: Semi-Pro
Character: Lynn
Released: February 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Pets
Released: January 22, 2007
Type: Movie
When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
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Diggers
Title: Diggers
Character: Gina
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
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Title: The Office
Character: Mrs. California
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: TV
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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Welcome to Mooseport
Title: Welcome to Mooseport
Character: Sally Mannis
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: Movie
A US president who has retired after two terms in office returns to his hometown of Mooseport, Maine and decides to run for Mayor against another local candidate.
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Melvin Goes to Dinner
Title: Melvin Goes to Dinner
Character: Leslie
Released: December 4, 2003
Type: Movie
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
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Title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Rooftop Kisses
Title: Rooftop Kisses
Character: Denise
Released: June 23, 2002
Type: Movie
This is a film that tells the story of a twelve year old boy who has to come to terms with the death of his father as it relates to the selling of his boyhood home.
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Insomnia
Title: Insomnia
Character: Rachel Clement
Released: May 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Title: NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2002
Type: Movie
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
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Scotland, PA
Title: Scotland, PA
Character: Pat McBeth
Released: March 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who is much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
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Title: The Andy Dick Show
Released: February 27, 2001
Type: TV
The Andy Dick Show is an American sketch comedy series that aired on MTV from February 2001 to May 2002. The series was created by and starred comedian Andy Dick.
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Mexico City
Title: Mexico City
Character: Pam on Phone (voice)
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
When her brother disappears during a brief travel layover in Mexico, Mitch begins a desperate search that will eventually lead the young divorcee into the capital city's most notorious neighborhood. But even with the aid of the American Ambassador, her plight is only met with indifference and inaction from the authorities. As the story unfolds, Mitch is forced to look for help in the least likely places as she races against time in a dangerous quest to find answers and locate her brother.
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Title: Sammy
Character: Kathy Kelly (voice)
Released: August 8, 2000
Type: TV
Sammy is an American animated television series that aired from August 8 until August 15, 2000. Inspired by Spade's own family tree, the show turns on James Blake, a TV star who's absentee free-loading father Sammy resurfaces after James makes it big.
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Oxygen
Title: Oxygen
Character: Det. Madeline Foster
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances' oxygen runs out, Madeline pursues the trail laid by a killer calling himself Harry Houdini. After capturing him, Madeline brings Harry back to the police station, but is unable to get him to confess where Frances is buried. As time runs down, Harry gets inside the head of unstable, alcoholic Madeline.
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Instinct
Title: Instinct
Character: Lynn Powell
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
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Forces of Nature
Title: Forces of Nature
Character: Bridget
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
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The Thin Pink Line
Title: The Thin Pink Line
Character: Suzanne
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
A film crew in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, a quirky and potentially gay prisoner convicted of murdering his high school show choir teacher. As filming of the documentary progresses, evidence increases that Chauncey might be guilty after all.
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Primary Colors
Title: Primary Colors
Character: Daisy Green
Released: March 20, 1998
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
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Title: The View
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1997
Type: TV
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain, and Abby Huntsman, discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.
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Liar Liar
Title: Liar Liar
Character: Audrey Reede
Released: March 21, 1997
Type: Movie
Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.
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Title: King of the Hill
Character: Tanya (voice)
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.
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Primal Fear
Title: Primal Fear
Character: Naomi
Released: March 6, 1996
Type: Movie
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
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Mercy
Title: Mercy
Character: Simonet
Released: October 19, 1995
Type: Movie
A couple of people steal the daughter of a famous lawyer. Now they want money to give her back, but it's not just the money they want. They want revenge.
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Title: NewsRadio
Character: Lisa Miller
Released: March 21, 1995
Type: TV
The office politics and interpersonal relationships among the staff of WNYX NewsRadio, New York's #2 news radio station.
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Title: ER
Character: Abby Lockhart
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Title: 704 Hauser
Character: Cherlyn Markowitz
Released: April 11, 1994
Type: TV
704 Hauser is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from April to May 1994. A spin-off of All in the Family, the series is built around the concept of a black family, the Cumberbatches, moving into the former Queens home of Archie Bunker years after Bunker had sold the house. The All in the Family character Joey Stivic, Archie's grandson, makes a cameo in the first episode.
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Out of Darkness
Title: Out of Darkness
Character: Meg
Released: January 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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The Temp
Title: The Temp
Character: Sharon Derns
Released: February 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
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Fly By Night
Title: Fly By Night
Character: Denise
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A struggling rapper finds a way in when he is approached by a more respected, hardcore rapper.
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White Sands
Title: White Sands
Character: Noreen
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
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The Linguini Incident
Title: The Linguini Incident
Character: Cecelia
Released: May 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
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Dead Women in Lingerie
Title: Dead Women in Lingerie
Character: Molly Field
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Patricia 'Patti' Blaine
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Flying Blind
Title: Flying Blind
Released: July 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Melodrama set in Philadelphia, PA in 1965. Eddie Panvini (Panebianco), a teenage photographer from South Philadelphia facing the Vietnam draft joins the coffeehouse fringe in 1965 Philadelphia and struggles with several moral choices before deciding to go to Vietnam as a war photographer.
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Title: The Van Dyke Show
Character: Jillian Ryan
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: TV
The Van Dyke Show is an American situation comedy, starring Dick Van Dyke and his son Barry Van Dyke. The series marked the first time the real-life father-son actors worked together. The Van Dyke Show premiered on CBS in October 1988.
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Crossing the Mob
Title: Crossing the Mob
Character: Michelle
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
A young mother turns a young man's streetwise life around when she reveals to him that he is the father of her infant baby.
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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Student Exchange
Title: Student Exchange
Character: Kathy Maltby
Released: November 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Carol and Neil are are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their highschool. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange students from France and Italy were redirected to another school, she figures she and Neil could take their places and be in the middle of public interest for one semester.
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Title: Family Ties
Character: Darlene
Released: September 22, 1982
Type: TV
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
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Title: Today
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: TV
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.