Anna Tierney

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. In August 2021 Anna began filming as a series regular opposite Alfred Molina in the hotly anticipated 'Three Pines' Inspector Gamache series. The stories, based on the best-selling crime novels written by Louise Penny, have been adapted for screen by Emilia Di Girolamo and are produced by Amazon Prime, Left Bank Pictures and Sony, alongside execs Alfred Molina, Emilia Di Girolamo, Andy Harries, Sharon Hughff, John Phillips and Sam Donovan. Anna trained at the Drama Centre London and 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 graduating she landed a role In the BBC's long running series 'Doctors', where she played Marianne Hartwell. In 2020 she voiced various characters in the hit animation series 'Summer Lane Drive' and played Pandora in 'Psycho Goreman' which premiered at SXSW festival and became an instant cult classic. That same year she filmed the Channel 4 and Story Films drama 'Deceit' written by Emilia Di Girolamo, portraying the real life mother and victim, Samantha Bisset. She has performed with the UK's most prestigious theatre companies: The Globe, The National, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic. She created the show '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. Over intensive rehearsal periods, she trained the troupe of actors to roller skate, inspired by the queer, full-contact sport of roller derby. Anna 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 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 Minneapolis and then for the 25 Year anniversary at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theater. It was here she met her partner, acclaimed musician and singer Gabriel DeSantis of the bands Whitebrow and King Cardiac. She has worked with Wertenbaker 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. She studied Modern and Medieval Languages on a scholarship at Oxford University and speaks fluent German. 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.