Anna Tierney is an English actress, born in Manchester to Irish and Austrian heritage and raised in Northolt, West London. She is the daughter of renowned actor Malcolm Tierney (Braveheart, Lovejoy, S ...Show More
Anna Tierney is an English actress, born in Manchester to Irish and Austrian heritage and raised in Northolt, West London. She is the daughter of renowned actor Malcolm Tierney (Braveheart, Lovejoy, Star Wars, Poldark and the original House Of Cards) and Linz born visual artist, Andrea Tierney.She studied Modern and Medieval Languages on a scholarship at Oxford University and speaks fluent German. She then trained at the prestigious Drama Centre London, where Michael Fassbender, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany and Gwendoline Christie trained before her. She was supported through drama school through various awards and the support of actors Jeremy Irons, Ian McKellen, Kitty Aldridge, Timothy West, Ian McShane and Roger Lloyd Pack.After leaving drama school she landed a role In the BBC's long running series 'Doctors', where she played Marianne Hartwell and has played various characters in the highly successful animation series 'Summer Lane Drive'. Recently she played Pandora in 'Psycho Goreman' which is set to have it's premiere at SXSW festival.She has performed with the UK's most prestigious theatre companies including The Globe, The National, The Royal Shakespeare Company and has created her own work, most notably 'Skate Hard, Turn Left' at the Battersea Arts Centre directed by Jemima James (Complicté associate director), a devised, highly physical theatre show performed entirely on roller skates. The show is inspired by the all-female, queer, full-contact sport of roller derby. She is a highly skilled skater in real life and played roller derby semi-professionally for 8 years with London Roller Derby.With 'Out Of Joint' theatre company she performed in the hit international tour of 'Our Country's Good', the classic play by award-winning playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker. They performed at the Guthrie Theater in the U.S. and then for the 25 Year anniversary revival at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater. It was here she met her partner, musician and singer Gabriel DeSantis of the bands Whitebrow and King Cardiac. She has worked with Timberlake on several other plays, notably 'What is the Custom of Your Grief?' for Women Centre Stage at the National Theatre and 'Jefferson's Garden', which won Best Play for the Writer's Guild Awards.As well as traditional roles on stage and screen, she has collaborated as a Performance Artist for international museums and Art festivals including the Singapore Biennale, Helmaus Zürich, This is Tomorrow and LUX Associate Artists. Hide
