Andrew Tiernan

Andrew James Tiernan (born on November 30 1965) is an English actor. Tiernan began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre and moved to London in 1984 to study a three-year Diploma in Acting at the Drama Centre London run by Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren. His theatre work has included Joe Penhall's The Bullet at the Donmar Warehouse, and a long-term collaboration with the Tony nominated Director; Wilson Milam (Director of Broadway hit; The Lieutenant of Inishmore) including Ché Walker's Flesh Wound at the Royal Court Theatre, London and two critically acclaimed productions of Sam Shepard plays; A Lie of the Mind at the Donmar Warehouse, London and True West at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre. In 2008, Andrew returned to the theatre in Dorota Maslowska's "A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians" at the Soho Theatre He gained the role of Piers Gaveston in Derek Jarman’s controversial film of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in 1991, after appearing in Lynda La Plante's award... full article at wikipedia