Andrew Tiernan
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).
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Movies (62)
Queer Edward II
2026 · Self (archive footage)
The Man with the Plan
2026 · Aneurin Bevan
Mi policía
2022 · Bert (uncredited)
Code of Silence
2021 · Peter Brodie
2003
2021 · Phil
Break Clause
2019 · Director
Burning Men
2019
The Good Soldier Schwejk
2018
UK18
2017 · Moore, Director, Story
Us and Them
2017 · Tommy
Le Fear II: Le Sequel
2016 · Dirk Heinz
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
2015 · Narrator/Himself
The Messenger
2015 · Father
Dragonfly
2014 · DS Blake, Director, Writer
Automata
2014 · Manager
Common
2014 · Peter O'Shea
The Bunker
2014
300: El Nacimiento de un Imperio
2014 · Ephialtes
War of the Dead
2011 · Martin Stone
Freight
2010 · Stanni
Mr. Nice
2010 · Alan Marcuson
Dead Cert
2010 · Chekha
Harvest
2009
300
2007 · Ephialtes
The Man Who Sold The World
2006 · Reverend Carmichael
A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005 · Ben Jonson
Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'
2005
Snuff-Movie
2005 · Constable Fred
The Quatermass Experiment
2005 · Victor Carroon
Whose Baby?
2004 · Dave
Rehab
2003 · Dean
El Pianista
2002 · Szalas
The Red Siren
2002 · Koesler
The Bunker
2001 · Cpl. Schenke
Mr In-Between
2001 · Andy
Hawkins
2001 · Freddie
Brilliant!
2001 · Art Critic
Lava
2001 · Squeegee merchant
Left Turn
2001 · John
Checkout Girl
2000 · Mark
The Criminal
1999 · Harris
The Protagonists
1999 · Mohammed
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1998 · Bunting
Juegos, trampas y dos armas humeantes
1998 · Man in Pub
The Scarlet Tunic
1998 · Muller
Map of the Scars
1998
Jugando con la muerte
1997 · Cyril
Face
1997 · Chris
Blanca Nieves en el bosque negro
1997 · Scar
Two Deaths
1996 · Captain Jorgu
Some Kind of Life
1995 · Mark
Entrevista con el Vampiro
1994 · Paris Vampire
Un hombre perdido en el tiempo
1994 · Cyprion's Man
Safe
1993 · Duggie
The Trial
1993 · Bethold the Student
As You Like It
1992 · Orlando / Oliver
The Guilty
1992 · Leo
Thacker
1992 · Davey Royce
Edward II
1991 · Piers Gaveston
Sweet Nothing
1990 · Dog
Dead Cat
1989 · Tramp's follower
Flying
· Gary
TV shows (51)
Joan
2024 · Paul
Dalgliesh
2021 · Malcolm Proctor
FBI: Internacional
2021 · Captain Luka Janic
Innocent
2018 · John Taylor
No Offence
2015 · Docherty
Safe House
2015 · Roger Lane
Code of a Killer
2015 · DS Geoff Taylor
The Great Fire
2014 · Vincent
The Driver
2014 · Darren
Padre Brown, detective
2013 · Archibald Drake
Ripper Street
2012 · James Self
Prisoners' Wives
2012 · DS David Hunter
Crimen en el paraíso
2011 · Paul Raynor
Injusticia
2011 · Michael Bankes
Luther
2010 · Richard Henley
Murderland
2009 · Whitaker
Survivors
2008 · Gavin
Merlín
2008 · Osgar
Heroes and Villains
2007
Life on Mars
2006 · Kim Trent
Doctor Who
2005 · Purcell
The Rotters' Club
2005 · Roy Slater
New Tricks
2004 · Sgt Major Sharratt
Murder Investigation Team
2003 · Gary Shale
The Afternoon Play
2003 · Bennett
Red Cap
2003
Foyle's War
2002 · Geoffrey Helliwell
Spooks
2002 · Forster (, Forster
Murphy's Law
2001 · Richard
Waking the Dead
2001 · Don Keech
In a Land of Plenty
2001 · Gary
Hornblower
1998 · Bunting
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Lenny Spearfish
Los asesinatos de Midsomer
1997 · Steve Bright
Ellington
1996 · Eddie Gilmour
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Jake McNally
The Sculptress
1996 · Gary O'Brien
Space Precinct
1994 · Andy Sturgeon
Middlemarch
1994
99-1
1994 · Billy Pink
Cracker
1993 · Sean
Between the Lines
1992 · David Panter
Heartbeat
1992 · Ray Nixon
Performance
1991 · Banquo
Prime Suspect
1991 · DC Rosper
The Chief
1990 · PC Steve Felsher
Nice Work
1989 · Raymond Wilcox
Screen One
1989 · Dog
Casualty
1986 · O'Neill, Col Danvers
Screen Two
1985 · Bethold the Student, Piers Gaveston
Taggart
1983