Acting

Andrew Tiernan

Born 1965-11-30 · 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).

Credits

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Queer Edward II
as Self (archive footage)
2026
The Man with the Plan
as Aneurin Bevan
2026
Joan
as Paul
2024
My Policeman
as Bert (uncredited)
2022
Code of Silence
as Peter Brodie
2021
Dalgliesh
as Malcolm Proctor
2021
2003
as Phil
2021
FBI: International
as Captain Luka Janic
2021
Break Clause
Director
2019
Burning Men
2019
The Good Soldier Schwejk
2018
Innocent
as John Taylor
2018
UK18
as Moore
2017
UK18
Director
2017
UK18
Story
2017
Us and Them
as Tommy
2017
Le Fear II: Le Sequel
as Dirk Heinz
2016
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
as Narrator/Himself
2015
The Messenger
as Father
2015
No Offence
as Docherty
2015
Safe House
as Roger Lane
2015
Code of a Killer
as DS Geoff Taylor
2015
Dragonfly
as DS Blake
2014
Dragonfly
Director
2014
Dragonfly
Writer
2014
The Great Fire
as Vincent
2014
Automata
as Manager
2014
The Driver
as Darren
2014
Common
as Peter O'Shea
2014
The Bunker
2014
300: Rise of an Empire
as Ephialtes
2014
Father Brown
as Archibald Drake
2013
Ripper Street
as James Self
2012
Prisoners' Wives
as DS David Hunter
2012
Death in Paradise
as Paul Raynor
2011
War of the Dead
as Martin Stone
2011
Injustice
as Michael Bankes
2011
Freight
as Stanni
2010
Mr. Nice
as Alan Marcuson
2010
Dead Cert
as Chekha
2010
Luther
as Richard Henley
2010
Murderland
as Whitaker
2009
Harvest
2009
Survivors
as Gavin
2008
Merlin
as Osgar
2008
Heroes and Villains
2007
300
as Ephialtes
2007
Life on Mars
as Kim Trent
2006
The Man Who Sold The World
as Reverend Carmichael
2006
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
as Ben Jonson
2005
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
Snuff-Movie
as Constable Fred
2005
The Quatermass Experiment
as Victor Carroon
2005
Doctor Who
as Purcell
2005
The Rotters' Club
as Roy Slater
2005
Whose Baby?
as Dave
2004
New Tricks
as Sgt Major Sharratt
2004
Murder Investigation Team
as Gary Shale
2003
Rehab
as Dean
2003
The Afternoon Play
as Bennett
2003
Red Cap
2003
Foyle's War
as Geoffrey Helliwell
2002
The Pianist
as Szalas
2002
The Red Siren
as Koesler
2002
Spooks
as Forster (
2002
Spooks
as Forster
2002
Murphy's Law
as Richard
2001
The Bunker
as Cpl. Schenke
2001
Mr In-Between
as Andy
2001
Hawkins
as Freddie
2001
Waking the Dead
as Don Keech
2001
Brilliant!
as Art Critic
2001
Lava
as Squeegee merchant
2001
In a Land of Plenty
as Gary
2001
Left Turn
as John
2001
Checkout Girl
as Mark
2000
The Criminal
as Harris
1999
The Protagonists
as Mohammed
1999
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
as Bunting
1998
Hornblower
as Bunting
1998