NEWS

2009 August - AT will be playing the character of Chekha in a new British crime/vampire film directed by Steven Lawson called "Dead Cert". It is scheduled for release in 2010. The Fangoria website describes it as a "modern spin on Stoker's Dracula" as "ancient diseased invader/s" battle "very modern Brits". Should be good!

2009 June - ***PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW EMAIL ADDRESS:

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Filming begins on a new ITV1 series "Murderland" by David Pirie, to be shown in three parts. In it AT will be working with Robbie Coltrane for the second time. The last time they worked together was sixteen years ago when they both gave electrifying performances in the acclaimed episode of Cracker "To Say I Love You".

2009 May - Recently Andy has been filming an episode of The Bill and is working on an independent film project.

2009 Jan/Apr - Another busy time for Mr. T with two feature films being wrapped already; both of them directed by by people who he has worked with on previous films. One is "Mr. Nice" directed by Bernard Rose and based on the best-selling book written by Howard Marks which stars Rhys Ifans. And the second is "Freight" written and directed by Sturt St. Paul and also featuring Irish Heavyweight Boxing Champion Big Joe Egan. The UK working title for this film is "The Bogfather".

2008 Nov/Dec- A busy time for Mr. Tiernan! Firstly "Survivors" screened in the UK and received a great reception. Then he appeared as a policeman in an episode of "Casualty" shown on Sat 14th Dec on BBC1. He also played a leading role ("Blue") in a short film called "Harvest" for Channel 4's Coming Up series. It was written by Richard Bean.

2008 April - July - AT finished shooting an episode of the remake of the much-feted 1970's drama: "Survivors" in South Yorkshire. Altogether he appeared in three episodes of this engrossing end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it series. He also appeared in an episode of the hugely successful BBC series "New Tricks".

2008 Feb/March - A highly successful run of the play: "A Couple of Polish-Speaking Romanians" was held at London's Soho Theatre. Andrew starred as Pacha - one of the two main leads. The play was written by Dorota Maslwoska and directed by Lisa Goldman and also starred Andrea Rise-borough as Dzina. One reviewer described it as: "a deeply dark fairy tale"

2007 July - Dec - Mr. T did a spot of globe-trotting and filmed two productions back-to-back. The first was set in early Roman times and shot in Tunisia. It was an excellent dramatized documentary made by the BBC called: "Spartacus" - part of their "Heroes And Villians" series. He played a major role in it, that of the Gladiator Cruxus. The second project was set in 1942 and filmed in Lithuania; a war/horror/thriller film called "Stone's War" with Our Mr. T in the title role of the American officer Captain Martin Stone. The film has yet to be given a general release date.

2007 March 9th - "300" OPENED ACROSS THE US TO SELL-OUT HOUSES! According to the New York Daily paper it raked in $70 million within it's first four days of release - exceeding it's own budget cost of $60 million - and was "the biggest March opening ever" for an R-rated film!! This places it as a landmark in cinematic history. The film is awe-inspiring; one reviewer described it as "operatic film-making".

CLICK HERE to read an interview with AT about preparing for the role of Ephialtes.

2007 March 5th - Our Lad From Brum travels to LA for the premiere of Zack Snyder's film "300" was held at Grauman's Chinese Theater. We wished him a very hearty "BREAK A LEG!!" on the night as US audiences got their first chance to see him portray Ephialtes in this awesome film which is such a milestone in his career. The reviews of his performance were glowing. (Click here for a review from the 300 page.)

2006 December - The middle of the British winter saw Our Andy appearing as the character Steve Bright in the well-known series Midsomer Murders.

2006 October - Mr. T was busy with several different projects and underwent a change of management - for more details on this see the Contacts page.

2006 July - Andrew completed an episode of the highly-acclaimed British TV series "Dalziel and Pascoe". He played a character he claimed: "(made) a nice change from the bad men".

2006 May - He travels to Manchester to film an episode of the ITV production "Cold Blood".

2006 February - The filming for Frank Miller's "300" - directed by Zack Snyder - was completed and the post-production work began. Although Mr. Tiernan found the long days spent in the full-body prosthetics needed for his role as Ephialtes a bit uncomfortable (...think about it...) he has this to say about the film: "300 is all done and dusted now...it looks amazing, like a Caravaggio painting, a living embodiment of the graphic novel!"

2006 January - Life On Mars screened in the UK. This intriguing series differs from the usual police drama because it lands the lead character - modern-day cop DI Sam Tyler (John Simm) - mysteriously back in time in the 1970's. Andy played bad guy Kim Trent to excellent reviews. This series is ground-breaking television drama.

2005 December - Andrew completed filming "The Man Who Sold The World" directed by Louis Melville. He played an "evil priest" named Reverend Carmichael.

2005 November - The BBC 4 production of "Waste of Shame " aired in the UK. Our lad played the character of Ben Jonson in this serious version of "Shakespeare In Love". The character who, in his words, is "the geezer who gets ol' Shaky pxxxxd and finally pushes him over the edge!" The role of Shakespeare was played by Rupert Graves.

2005 Sept/Oct - AT appeared in:"Whose Baby", "Murphy's Law", "Rotter's Club" and the cult TV series "Life On Mars".

2005 September - He played a character called Forster, a terrorist involved in a group called "Shining Dawn", in a special two-part episode of the British drama "Spooks". This episode was directed by Antonia Bird. The storyline focused on the uncannily topical subject at the time of bombings on the London Underground. There was some controversy as to whether the program should be shown so close to the actual occurrence of these events in real life but they were finally screened in the UK on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th September.

2005 August/September - Andy flew to LA to be fitted for prosthetics for his role as "Ephialtes" in the film "300" written by Frank Miller.This big budget Warner Bros. production was shot in Vancouver. It was directed by Zack Snyder who also directed "Dawn Of The Dead". The story centred on the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 BC when Leonidas the King of Sparta and his Royal Guard of 300 were overwhelmingly outnumbered by their enemies the Persians. This battle inspired all of Greece to band together thus forming the first democracy. It also stars Gerard Butler (the Phantom from "Phantom Of The Opera") as King Leonidas. It's release date is set for 2007.

2005 August - "Snuff-Movie" was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival on August 27th. Andrew played the character of Bruce in this latest offering from Bernard Rose, director of the acclaimed "Candyman".

2005 April - Andrew Tiernan had a lead role as astronaut Victor Caroon in the BBC3's production of Nigel Kneale's 1953 cult classic "The Quatermass Experiment". This was an historic television event being the first live drama broadcast by the BBC in twenty years.