
Andrew Tiernan
Biography
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).
Filmography

The Pianist
2002 · 8.4

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · 8.1

The Rotters' Club
2005 · 8.0
Ellington
1996 · 8.0

The Sculptress
1996 · 8.0
Checkout Girl
2000 · 8.0

Hawkins
2001 · 8.0

Dead Cat
1989 · 8.0

Foyle's War
2002 · 7.9

Luther
2010 · 7.8

Prime Suspect
1991 · 7.8

Merlin
2008 · 7.8

Middlemarch
1994 · 7.8

Whose Baby?
2004 · 7.8

Father Brown
2013 · 7.7

Spooks
2002 · 7.7

Life on Mars
2006 · 7.7

Hornblower
1998 · 7.7

Doctor Who
2005 · 7.6

Jonathan Creek
1997 · 7.6

Murphy's Law
2001 · 7.6

FBI: International
2021 · 7.5

No Offence
2015 · 7.5

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1998 · 7.5

My Policeman
2022 · 7.5

Midsomer Murders
1997 · 7.5

Death in Paradise
2011 · 7.4

Prisoners' Wives
2012 · 7.4

Interview with the Vampire
1994 · 7.4

New Tricks
2004 · 7.3

300
2007 · 7.2

Waking the Dead
2001 · 7.2

Screen One
1989 · 7.2

Code of a Killer
2015 · 7.2

Heartbeat
1992 · 7.1

Screen Two
1985 · 7.1

Survivors
2008 · 7.1

Injustice
2011 · 7.1

The Chief
1990 · 7.0

Innocent
2018 · 7.0

The Driver
2014 · 7.0

Heroes and Villains
2007 · 7.0

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005 · 7.0

Rehab
2003 · 7.0

Burning Men
2019 · 7.0

The Great Fire
2014 · 6.9

Dalgliesh
2021 · 6.7

Red Cap
2003 · 6.7

Nice Work
1989 · 6.7

Taggart
1983 · 6.6

Cracker
1993 · 6.6

Joan
2024 · 6.6

The Afternoon Play
2003 · 6.5

Common
2014 · 6.5

Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · 6.4

Safe House
2015 · 6.4

Murder Investigation Team
2003 · 6.4

Performance
1991 · 6.3

Space Precinct
1994 · 6.3

Edward II
1991 · 6.3

Face
1997 · 6.3

Casualty
1986 · 6.2

300: Rise of an Empire
2014 · 6.1

Mr. Nice
2010 · 6.1

Snow White: A Tale of Terror
1997 · 6.1

Code of Silence
2021 · 6.0

The Trial
1993 · 6.0

As You Like It
1992 · 6.0

UK18
2017 · 6.0

Le Fear II: Le Sequel
2016 · 6.0

Automata
2014 · 5.9

Murderland
2009 · 5.8

2003
2021 · 5.8

Mr In-Between
2001 · 5.7

The Criminal
1999 · 5.7

The Bunker
2001 · 5.6

Two Deaths
1996 · 5.6

The Quatermass Experiment
2005 · 5.6

Between the Lines
1992 · 5.5

Playing God
1997 · 5.5

Us and Them
2017 · 5.5

Safe
1993 · 5.3
Left Turn
2001 · 5.3

The Red Siren
2002 · 5.2

The Protagonists
1999 · 5.2

Being Human
1994 · 5.1

The Scarlet Tunic
1998 · 5.1

Harvest
2009 · 5.0

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005 · 5.0

The Messenger
2015 · 4.9

Lava
2001 · 4.8

In a Land of Plenty
2001 · 4.7

Dead Cert
2010 · 4.3
The Man Who Sold The World
2006 · 4.3

War of the Dead
2011 · 4.2

Snuff-Movie
2005 · 4.1

The Bunker
2014 · 4.0

Freight
2010 · 3.6

The Guilty
1992 · 3.0

Dragonfly
2014 · 2.0

99-1
1994 · 0.0

Thacker
1992 · 0.0

The Man with the Plan
2026 · 0.0

The Good Soldier Schwejk
2018 · 0.0
Flying
— · 0.0
Some Kind of Life
1995 · 0.0

Map of the Scars
1998 · 0.0
Brilliant!
2001 · 0.0