300: Rise of an Empire
2014
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Actor: 300: Rise of an Empire. Andrew Tiernan trained at the Drama Centre London. His earliest break came in 1991, when he was cast in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), at the same time he was cast as DC Rosper in the award winning television series Prime Suspect (1991), alongside Helen Mirren, Tom Bell and Tom Wilkinson.
- January 1, 1
- 1.80 m
- Ladywood, Birmingham, England, UK
Tiernan starred in Zack Snyder's 300, an adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel, in which he portrayed Ephialtes of Trachis. Filming took place from October 2005 to January 2006 in Montreal . To portray Ephialtes, Tiernan dressed in full body prosthetics which took 10 hours each day to complete. [1]
300 (2006) Andrew Tiernan: Ephialtes. Showing all 10 items. Jump to: Photos (8) Quotes (2) Photos. Quotes. Ephialtes : There is nothing to forgive, brave King. I know what I look like... King Leonidas : [quietly] You wear the crimson of a Spartan. Ephialtes : My mother's love led my parents to flee Sparta... lest I be discarded...
Andrew Tiernan. Actor: 300. Andrew Tiernan trained at the Drama Centre London. His earliest break came in 1991, when he was cast in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), at the same time he was cast as DC Rosper in the award winning television series Prime Suspect (1991), alongside Helen Mirren, Tom Bell and Tom Wilkinson.
The cast includes Lena Headey, Peter Mensah, David Wenham, Andrew Tiernan, Andrew Pleavin, and Rodrigo Santoro reprising their roles from the first film, alongside Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Hans Matheson, and Callan Mulvey.
Frank Miller 's 1999 comic book miniseries 300, the 2006 film adaptation of the same name, and the 2014 sequel, portray Ephialtes (played in the films by Andrew Tiernan) as a severely deformed Spartan exile whose parents fled Sparta to protect him from the infanticide he would have surely suffered as a disfigured infant.
