Biography

Malcolm Tierney was born on February 25, 1938 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Braveheart (1995), The Saint (1997) and In the Name of the Father (1993). He was married to Andrea Schinko. He died on February 18, 2014 in the UK.

Steely blue eyes

He studied design at the Manchester School of Art. While working as a textile designer and printmaker, he became interested in amateur theater. He received a scholarship to a drama school in Kent, and landed his first acting job in 1962 at Bernard Miles's Mermaid theater in London.

Studied on a scholarship at the Rose Bruford drama school in Sidcup, Kent, in 1958. Secured his first acting job in 1962 at Bernard Miles's Mermaid Theatre in London.

Tierney was a working-class Mancunian and committed unionist who became a core member of the Workers' Revolutionary party in the 1970s.

His father was a boilermaker; his mother worked in the cotton mills.