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Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney Height 5' 3" Born February 3 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Maura Lynn Tierney :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 upperscale Bostonian family
and was raised in the Hyde Park district. Born February 3, 1965, the eldest
child of three to a prosperous politician and city councilman father and real
estate agent mother, Maura initially studied at New York University but 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 as "Growing Pains," "Family Ties" and "Law & Order." She met
actor/husband Billy Morrissette after both were fired from the set of an
eventually-scrapped Ralph Macchio series. After a few other failed pilots and a
short-lived TV series, Maura made a minor film debut with The Linguini Incident
(1991) and progressed to leading lady status in the B-movie spoof Dead Women in
Lingerie (1991), which didn't go over well. She finally hit pay dirt on TV when
she won a female co-lead as smart but insecure newswriter Lisa Miller on the
comedy series "NewsRadio" (1995). The show was mediocre at best but sailed along
for a number of seasons due to the fine comedy instincts of Dave Foley, Andy
Dick and the late SNL player Phil Hartman. The show lost its oomph, however, as
well as its audience after Hartman's tragic 1998 shotgun slaying, despite an
assured replacement in fellow SNL alumni Jon 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 the Jim Carrey vehicle Liar Liar (1997). She
also showed up as sly, darker-edged femmes in the thriller Primal Fear (1996),
Primary Colors (1998) and Instinct (1999). She received one of her best
art-house roles as a heavy in her husband's feature Scotland, Pa. (2001)--he
wrote and directed. It was back to steady TV work, however, into the millennium
with the role of Abby, a nurse, in the long-established and critically-acclaimed
medical drama series "ER" (1994), where she still resides on the staff. The
L.A.-based actress and her husband enjoy traveling in their spare time.
Now on Show Times The Affair, check it out finally Maura
gets naked and does the nasty, we can only hope it, she, keeps going!
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