Maura Tierney is formally again on NBC Thursday nights together with her new Regulation & Order function. Earlier than that, you might see her in American Rust, and when she stopped by to speak about that stunning Season 2 finale, TV Insider had her look again on her TV profession, which started with Scholar Change in 1987.
Quickly after that got here The Van Dyke Present. “Working with Dick Van Dyke was—he’s the nicest man and a legend, and I grew up watching his present, and his son Barry was nice,” Tierney recalled.
She then did Household Ties as a result of her little brother beloved the present. After that got here a visitor spot on Regulation & Order in 1991, and she or he admits she barely remembers it. (She’s removed from the primary particular person to visitor star on one of many reveals within the franchise earlier than becoming a member of as a brand new character later.)
Many know her from ER, which she beloved. “I used to be kind of a bridge between the unique crew [and the new one],” she mentioned. “I used to be there when lots of them left, after which lots of people got here on. We’re all nonetheless mates, and we had a blast doing that present.” She went on to do an arc on The Good Spouse, the place she loved catching up with Julianna Margulies.
Following ER was Rescue Me. “They referred to as me up and provided me this arc for this character that was fully totally different from Nurse Abby, supervisor for rock and roll bands. And it was enjoyable. I bought to expire of a burning constructing, and I simply was so glad to so shortly get to play a personality that was a catastrophe.”
Watch the complete video above for extra from Tierney wanting again on her roles, together with the one time she was a cartoon and one of many first streaming reveals, together with The Affair, Your Honor, and American Rust.
—Reporting by Leah Williams