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Jacob Tierney
Tierney in September 2007
Born	(1979-09-26) September 26, 1979 (age 45) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupations	Actor director screenwriter producer
Years active	1986–present
Father	Kevin Tierney

Jacob Daniel Tierney (born September 26, 1979) is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for playing Eric in Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–1992) and as the co-writer, director, and executive producer of the sitcom Letterkenny (2016–2023), in which he also plays Pastor Glen.

Early life

Jacob Daniel Tierney was born in Montreal on September 26, 1979, the son of teacher Terry (née Smiley) and film producer Kevin Tierney (1950–2018). He is of Irish and Jewish descent. His younger sister, Brigid, is an actress.

Career

Tierney started his career as a child actor, beginning at age six. Aside from acting, Tierney also writes and directs. He made his directorial debut in 2002 with his short film titled Dad.

Since Dad, Tierney has written and directed the feature films Twist (2003), for which he was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, The Trotsky (2009), which garnered him two Canadian Comedy Awards and a Genie Award, Good Neighbours (2010), and Preggoland (2014). He has also directed episodes of the television sitcom Mr. D and Gavin Crawford's comedy special Gavin Crawford's Wild West. In 2012, Tierney participated in the jury of the Air Canada enRoute Film Festival.

Tierney made his stage directing debut in 2015 with a production of Travesties by Tom Stoppard at the Segal Centre in Montreal. In 2017, he returned to the Segal Centre to direct Noises Off by Michael Frayn.

Tierney is the co-writer, director, and executive producer of the sitcom Letterkenny, in which he also stars as Pastor Glen. At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, Tierney won several awards for his work on the series, including the Canadian Screen Award for Best Comedy Series. In 2018, Tierney won the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Direction in a Comedy Series, as well as Best Writing in a Comedy Series alongside Letterkenny creator and star Jared Keeso.

Tierney is openly queer.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ Hays, Matthew (13 September 2010), "Jacob Tierney's unneighbourly conduct", The Globe and Mail
2. Schneller, Joanna (23 December 2020), "Letterkenny co-creator Jacob Tierney has cracked the code of television", The Globe and Mail
3. "Jacob Tierney – Writer/Director".
4. Kelly, Brendan (13 March 2010), "There's no drama for the Tierneys", Montreal Gazette
5. ^ "Exclusive Interview with "The Trotsky" Writer/Director Jacob Tierney » My Cinema | My Entertainment World". www.myentertainmentworld.ca. 16 January 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
6. ^ "awards database". academy.ca/. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
7. Stevenson, Jane (2009-09-16). "Canadian Baruchel channels Trotsky". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
8. ^ "Canadian Comedy Awards". NOW Toronto Magazine - Think Free. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
9. "Jacob Tierney on his latest film, Preggoland". Montreal Gazette. 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
10. Knight, Chris. "VIFF: Director Jacob Tierney's latest labour follows fake pregnancy". www.nationalpost.com. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
11. "Thunderbird — The Canadian Screen Awards Nominations was today and here is the full list of television nominees…". thunderbird.tv. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
12. "enRoute | The 2012 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival Jury". Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
13. Burke, Jim (17 April 2015), "Madcap wink at history in Stoppard's Travesties", Montreal Gazette
14. Burke, Jim (3 February 2017), "When Noises Off hits the right tone, it's a miracle of calibrated chaos", Montreal Gazette
15. "Letterkenny's love affair with Sudbury". Sudbury Star. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
16. Furdyk, Brent (March 12, 2017). "2017 Canadian Screen Awards: And The Winners Are…". ET Canada. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
17. "Exclusive Interview: Letterkenny's Jacob Tierney "We might be at peak gay!"". The Queer Review. 9 January 2021.
18. "The winners of the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival". www.theprovince.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
19. "2015 nominees" (PDF). dgc.ca. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
20. "» Winners Omaha Film Festival". omahafilmfestival.org. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
21. "2017 TV Nominees - Academy.ca". Academy.ca. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
22. "2017 WGC Screenwriting Awards Finalists". www.wgc.ca. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

External links

• Jacob Tierney at IMDb

• 1979 births
• Living people
• 20th-century Canadian male actors
• 21st-century Canadian male actors
• 21st-century Canadian male writers
• 21st-century Canadian screenwriters
• Anglophone Quebec people
• Best Original Song Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
• Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
• Canadian Comedy Award winners
• Canadian male child actors
• Canadian male film actors
• Canadian male screenwriters
• Canadian male television actors
• Canadian television directors
• Canadian male voice actors
• Canadian people of Irish descent
• Film directors from Montreal
• Jewish Canadian male actors
• Male actors from Montreal
• Quebec people of Irish descent
• Screenwriters from Quebec
• Writers from Montreal
• Canadian queer male actors
• 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
• Canadian Screen Award winning writers
• Canadian comedy film directors