---
name: "Colin Tierney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-tierney"
fi1m_id: "colin-tierney"
imdb_id: "nm0862918"
tmdb_id: 151952
wikidata_id: "Q121227590"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T20:54:45.713444+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Colin Tierney

## Identity

Colin Tierney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-tierney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colin-tierney
- **IMDb ID:** nm0862918
- **TMDB ID:** 151952
- **Wikidata ID:** Q121227590
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121227590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151952

Actor. Born 1 January 1968 in Liverpool, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1968, Liverpool, England, UK
- **Active:** 1993–2009
- **Also known as:** Colin David Tierney
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121227590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/151952

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Cracker*](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md) (85)

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## Biography

Colin Tierney is a British actor, also credited as Colin David Tierney. Born in 1968 in Liverpool, England, he has appeared in numerous British television dramas and films.

He is known for roles including DC Bobby Harriman in *Cracker* (1993–94), Alf Lennon in *Nowhere Boy* (2009), Mungo Mortimer in *Midsomer Murders* (1997), Luke Shearwood in *Vera* (2011), Alan Fleming in *Foyle's War* (2002), Chief Supt Gerry Rydell in *DCI Banks* (2011), and DI Kevin Morrison in *Until I Kill You* (2024). Other credits include appearances in *Casualty*, *Endeavour*, *Mr Bates vs the Post Office* (2024) and *Lockerbie: A Search for Truth* (2025).

Tierney has worked extensively in theatre, with National Theatre credits including productions of *Othello* and *Paul*. He has been married to actor Indira Varma since 1996; they have one child.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, unitedagents.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Nowhere Boy* (2009), Fi1m 72, as Alf Lennon — [page](https://film.one/film/nowhere-boy.md)
- *Cracker* (1993), Fi1m 85, as Harriman — [page](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lockerbie: A Search for Truth* (2025), series, as Allan Crawford
- *Until I Kill You* (2024), series, as DI Kevin Morrison
- *National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet* (2021), as Lord Montague
- *Revealed: Cleopatra's Lost City* (2021), as Narrator
- *Inside the Cockpit: The Concorde Crash* (2019), as narrator
- *A Doll's House* (2019), as Dr. Rank
- *WW1: The Final Hours* (2018), as Narrator
- *The Kennedys: A Fatal Ambition* (2018), as SelfSelf-Narrator
- *Trump: An American Dream* (2017), series, as Narrator
- *Ramanujan* (2014), Actor
- *Mafia's Greatest Hits* (2012), series, as Narrator
- *DCI Banks* (2011), series, as Chief Supt Gerry Rydell
- *Vera* (2011), series, as Luke Shearwood — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Splintered* (2010), as Father Thomas
- *Nowhere Boy* (2009), as Alf Lennon — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/nowhere-boy.md)
- *Garrow's Law* (2009), series, as James Kelsall
- *Svengali* (2009), as Ellie The Barmaid
- *Mary Magdalene: Saint or Sinner?* (2008), as Narrator
- *Waterloo Road* (2006), series, as Reynold
- *The Search for the Northwest Passage* (2005), as Narrator
- *The Walk* (2005), as Greg
- *Serious & Organised* (2003), series, as Michael Abbott
- *Foyle's War* (2002), series, as Alan Fleming — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)
- *Tough Love* (2000), as DS Connolly
- *The Vice* (1999), series, as Martin
- *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (1997), series, as DS Clacey
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Mungo Mortimer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Cracker* (1993), series, as Harriman — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md)
- *Bye Bye Baby* (1992), as Skinner
- *Soldier Soldier* (1991), series, as Sgt Jim Freeman
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Michael Letts — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

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