Maura Tierney
Actor | Producer | Writer
Actor | Producer | Writer
Maura Therese Tierney (born February 3, 1965) is an American film and television actress, who is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on the sitcom NewsRadio, Abby Lockhart on the television medical drama ER, and Helen Solloway on the television drama The Affair, for which she won the Golden Globe Award in 2016.
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As: Bernadette
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.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Michael C. Hall | Jon Hamm | Annette Bening | Adam Driver | Sarah Goldberg
As: Karen Barbour
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.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Felix Van Groeningen
Stars: Amy Ryan | Maura Tierney | Steve Carell | Timothée Chalamet | Christian Convery
As: Laurette Sachman
After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Timothy McNeil
Stars: John Carroll Lynch | Maura Tierney | Matt Bomer | Micah A. Hauptman | Margot Bingham
As: Janine
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.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Todd Rohal
Stars: Rob Riggle | Patton Oswalt | Maura Tierney | Patrice O'Neal | Johnny Knoxville
As: Lorraine Mendon
A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Peter Tolan
Stars: Steve Coogan | Peter Facinelli | Matthew Broderick | Maura Tierney | Brittany Snow
As: Caroline
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.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Michael McCullers
Stars: Tina Fey | Dax Shepard | Greg Kinnear | Amy Poehler | Sigourney Weaver
As: Lynn
Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the National Basketball Association (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. The Tropics are the worst team in the league and ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Kent Alterman
Stars: Will Ferrell | Andrew Daly | Woody Harrelson | Maura Tierney | André Benjamin
As: Pets
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.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Martin Hynes
Stars: Kathleen M. Darcy | Zooey Deschanel | Lou Taylor Pucci | Giuseppe Andrews | Jena Malone
As: Gina
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.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Katherine Dieckmann
Stars: Josh Hamilton | Maura Tierney | Ron Eldard | Ken Marino | Sarah Paulson
As: Dr. Sally Mannis
A US president (Gene Hackman) 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 (Ray Romano).
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Marcia Gay Harden | Gene Hackman | Maura Tierney | Ray Romano | June Squibb
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.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Bob Odenkirk
Stars: Maura Tierney | Annabelle Gurwitch | Jenna Fischer | Stephanie Courtney | Michael Blieden
As: Denise
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.
Runtime: 23 min.
Directed by: Andrew Bernstein
Stars: Anton Yelchin | Allison Janney | Maura Tierney
As: Rachel Clement
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.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Martin Donovan | Hilary Swank | Robin Williams | Al Pacino | Maura Tierney
As: Pat McBeth
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has 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.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Billy Morrissette
Stars: Kevin Corrigan | James Rebhorn | Christopher Walken | Maura Tierney | James Le Gros
As: Pam on Phone (voice)
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 ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: Robert Patrick | Roberto Sosa | Stacy Edwards | Jorge Robles | Johnny Zander
As: Det. Madeline Foster
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: Laila Robins | Adrien Brody | James Naughton | Terry Kinney | Maura Tierney
As: Lynn Powell
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.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: George Dzundza | Donald Sutherland | Anthony Hopkins | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Maura Tierney
As: Bridget Cahill
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.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Bronwen Hughes
Stars: Ben Affleck | Blythe Danner | Steve Zahn | Sandra Bullock | Maura Tierney
As: Suzanne
In this mockumentary, a film team in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, the quirky, 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. Will the team prove Chauncey's innocence ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Joe Dietl | Michael Irpino
Stars: Jennifer Aniston | Illeana Douglas | Joe Dietl | Bruce Daniels | Michael Irpino
As: Daisy Green
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 ...
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kathy Bates | Adrian Lester | Billy Bob Thornton | John Travolta
As: Audrey Reede
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.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Cary Elwes | Jim Carrey | Swoosie Kurtz | Maura Tierney
As: Naomi Chance
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 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Laura Linney | Richard Gere | Alfre Woodard | John Mahoney | Frances McDormand
As: Simonet
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.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: Sam Rockwell | John Rubinstein | Maura Tierney | Novella Nelson | Amber Kain
As: Meg
Diana Ross dramatizes multiple personality disorder.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Larry Elikann
Stars: Lindsay Crouse | Maura Tierney | Stack Pierce | Diana Ross | Beah Richards
As: Sharon Derns
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Tom Holland
Stars: Oliver Platt | Timothy Hutton | Dwight Schultz | Lara Flynn Boyle | Steven Weber
As: Denise
A struggling rapper finds a way in when he is approached by a more respected, hardcore rapper.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Steve Gomer
Stars: Ron Brice | Jeffrey D. Sams | Maura Tierney
As: Noreen
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.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Mickey Rourke | Samuel L. Jackson | M. Emmet Walsh | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
As: Molly Field
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Erica Fox
Stars: Dennis Christopher | June Lockhart | Maura Tierney | Jerry Orbach | John Romo
As: Cecelia
A waitress (Rosanna Arquette), a barman (David Bowie) and an underwear designer (Eszter Balint) try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: David Bowie | Rosanna Arquette | Andre Gregory | Buck Henry | Eszter Balint
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.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Vince DiPersio
Stars: Frank Whaley | Maura Tierney | Richard Panebianco | Emily Longstreth | Leon
As: Michelle
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.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Steven Hilliard Stern
Stars: Patti D'Arbanville | Jason Bateman | Louis Giambalvo | Maura Tierney | Evan Mirand
As: Kathy Maltby
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.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Mollie Miller
Stars: Heather Graham | Viveka Davis | O.J. Simpson | Todd Field | Gavin MacLeod