My Take
Maura Tierney is one of those quietly indispensable actors who keeps showing up in great work without ever making a big fuss about it, and I genuinely love her for that. She did a full decade on ER as Abby Lockhart — not a cameo, not a brief arc, but ten years of carrying emotionally grueling storylines with real grit and zero melodrama. Then she turned around and won a Golden Globe for The Affair, playing a kind of complicated hurt that's really hard to fake. She trained at NYU Tisch, grew up in Massachusetts, and there's something about her that feels grounded in all of that — no Hollywood gloss, just craft. Seeing her pop up in The Iron Claw was a reminder that when filmmakers want someone who will make a scene land without overselling it, she's who they call.
Overview
Maura Lynn Tierney (born February 3, 1965) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on the sitcom NewsRadio (1995–1999), Abby Lockhart on the medical drama ER (1999–2009), and Helen Solloway on the mystery drama The Affair (2014–2019), the last of which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made…
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Maura Tierney
- Name (Japanese)
- モーラ・ティアニー
- Reading
- もーら・てぃあにー
- Born
- February 3, 1965 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Snake
- Origin
- Hyde Park, Massachusetts, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / stage actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | The Iron Claw | — |
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.