She was reunited with her NewsRadio co-star Khandi Alexander, who at that time also had a recurring role on ER. įrom 1999 to 2008, Tierney played Nurse Abigail "Abby" Lockhart on ER, a character that began as a guest appearance in November 1999 and then expanded in February 2000 to a full-time regular role as an ER nurse and later after completion of medical school, a doctor. So then, when ER called (.) that was a way to stay in that would remain interesting for me. Hen NewsRadio got canceled, (.) I thought, there's probably not gonna be something like again for me. While part of the NewsRadio cast, she also starred in several successful films of the late 1990s and early 2000s such as Primal Fear, Liar Liar, Primary Colors, Forces of Nature and Welcome to Mooseport.Īfter NewsRadio was canceled, Tierney decided not to star in another sitcom: She first received regular national exposure with her leading role in the sitcom NewsRadio from 1995 to 1999. Tierney had a number of small roles in film and television and a co-starring role in 704 Hauser, a short-lived 1994 spin-off of All in the Family.
Tierney's first starring role in a film was in a low-budget independent film called Dead Women in Lingerie, which was shot in 24 days. Career Īfter appearing in several plays, Tierney moved to Los Angeles in 1987, earning her big break with a role in Disney's made-for-TV film Student Exchange. After graduation, she attended New York University, where she majored first in dance and then in drama. Tierney attended Mount Alvernia Academy Elementary School and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Massachusetts, where she studied drama, which led to her appearance at the Boston Globe Drama Festival.
Tierney, was a prominent Boston politician who served on the Boston City Council for 15 years. Her mother Pat (née James) is a real estate broker, while her father, the late Joseph M. Tierney was born and raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest of three children in an Irish American Catholic family.
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