November 17 - 23, 2024
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Maura Tierney Olivia Williams stars in “Dune: Prophecy”
OF LAW & ORDER ON NBC/PEACOCK Q: It’s interesting to see Maura Tierney as a regular cast member on “Law & Order” now. Sometimes, actors return to that franchise after having been guest stars in it earlier. Is that the case with her? A: In fact, it is. Early in her career, before she became a co-star of “NewsRadio” and “ER,” Tierney also appeared on NBC in a Season 2 episode of the parent “Law & Order” show titled “Aria,” about a would-be actress whose drug-overdose death was blamed on her demanding mother. At the time, Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks played the prosecutors in the series, while Chris Noth and Paul Sorvino were teamed as the police detectives. Tony Roberts and comedian Lewis Black also were in the guest cast. That episode originally aired in 1991, so it would take a long memory or a true “Law & Order” devotee to remember that Tierney had first been on the series then. She also had done a short stint on CBS’s “The Van Dyke Show” (teaming father-and-son Dick and Barry) and a guest turn on NBC’s “Family Ties” before that, and TV work would continue to be a career mainstay for her.
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Though she was intended to be a star of NBC’s second, longer-lasting attempt at a series inspired by the movie “Parenthood,” health considerations caused Tierney to leave that project (she was succeeded on the show by Lauren Graham). However, Tierney went on to recurring roles on FX’s “Rescue Me” and CBS’s “The Good Wife,” and she had an especially prominent part as Helen Solloway on Showtime’s “The Affair.” Showtime actually gave her a lot of employment in recent years, since she also was featured there on “Your Honor” and “American Rust.”