Biography
Jacob Tierney has been working as a professional actor since the age of six. Among his films are Josh and S.A.M. (Castle Rock/Sony) co-starring Joan Allen and Martha Plimpton, The Neon Bible (Miramax) co-starring Gena Rowlands, Denis Leary and Diana Scarwid and directed by Terence Davies, Rainbow, co-starring Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek and Dan Aykroyd and directed by Hoskins. This Is My Father, (Sony Pictures Classics) co-starring Aidan Quinn, James Caan, John Cusak and Stephen Rea and directed by Paul Quinn. The Life Before This co-starring Sarah Polley, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano and directed by Jerry Ciccoritti. You Can Thank Me Later, co-starring Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Genevieve Bujold and Mary McDonnell and directed by Shimon Dotan. Poor White Trash co-starring Sean Young, William Devane and Jaime Pressley. Blood co-starring Emily Hampshire and directed by Jerry Ciccorritti. He won a YTV Achievement award for Best Actor for CBC's Straight Up in 1998. Tierney will be next seen as the title character in CBC’s mini-series “Saint-Urbain’s Horseman” in the fall of 2008 opposite Elliott Gould, Andrea Martin and David Julian Hirsch, and Robert Cuffley’s Walk All Over Me, opposite Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer and Lothaire Bluteau.
Tierney’s short film Dad won the honourable mention for best short at the 2002 Atlantic and Austin Film Festivals. Dad also screened at the CFC’s Worldwide Short Film Festival and is distributed internationally by Brit Shorts.
Twist, Tierney’s debut feature starring Nick Stahl and Gary Farmer, world premiered as the only English language film in International Critics’ Week at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, and was invited to the Toronto, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Melbourne, Singapore and Seattle International Film Festivals, to name a few. The film was distributed by Montreal-based Christal Films throughout Canada, Strand Releasing in the U.S. and was also sold theatrically to France and other territories. The foreign rights are held by Content International.
Twist was also nominated for 4 Genie Awards: best actor (Stahl), best supporting actor (Farmer), best adapted screenplay (Tierney) and best original song (Ron Proulx/Jacob Tierney), winning the latter.
Tierney has written for CTV’s acclaimed series “The Eleventh Hour” (on the Gemini-nominated episode “Pot Kettle Black”) and spent 2007 adapting Remy Girard’s beloved radio series “LeGrand, Reporteur” into English for CBC Radio.
Currently in development as a writer/director are “The Trotsky” for Park Ex Pictures (Kevin Tierney) and Victorious Films (Victoria Hirst), set for production in 2008 and an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s “The Good Terrorist” for Rhombus Media (Niv Fishman).