
Andrew Tiernan
Born November 30, 1965 · Ladywood, Birmingham, England, UK
Andrew Tiernan (born 30 November 1965, Birmingham, England) is a British actor and director. He is best known as Ephialtes in 300 (2006) and 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Sean Kerrigan in Cracker (1993), and for roles in Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Pianist (2002), and My Policeman (2022). On television he has appeared in Prime Suspect, Hornblower, Doctor Who (2011), Merlin (2012), and Father Brown. As a director and producer, he founded Keeps on Burning Films and directed Dragonfly (2015) and UK18 (2017).
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Pianist

300

Interview with the Vampire

300: Rise of an Empire

Automata

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Snuff-Movie

My Policeman

Thacker

The Red Siren

The Man with the Plan

The Bunker

Being Human

Playing God

Safe

Face

Edward II

Code of Silence

The Bunker

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Mr. Nice

Two Deaths

Queer Edward II

Lava

The Trial

Freight

War of the Dead

As You Like It

Dead Cert

Mr In-Between

Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

The Quatermass Experiment

Harvest

The Guilty

Us and Them

Common

The Messenger

Le Fear II: Le Sequel

The Criminal

The Protagonists

Map of the Scars

Whose Baby?

Rehab

The Good Soldier Schwejk
TV Shows

Death in Paradise

Father Brown

Heartbeat

Spooks

FBI: International

Screen Two

Merlin

New Tricks

Waking the Dead

Foyle's War

Dalziel and Pascoe

Taggart

Ripper Street

Prime Suspect

Jonathan Creek

Performance

Cracker

Life on Mars

Screen One

The Chief

Dalgliesh

Between the Lines

Space Precinct

Murphy's Law

No Offence

Hornblower

Innocent

The Afternoon Play

Middlemarch

Murder Investigation Team

Code of a Killer

Safe House

Survivors

Heroes and Villains

99-1

Prisoners' Wives

Injustice

Joan

Red Cap

The Driver

The Great Fire

The Rotters' Club

Nice Work

Murderland

In a Land of Plenty













