{"id":230332,"date":"2025-10-17T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230332\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:13:07","slug":"maura-tierney-will-be-honored-at-the-oscar-wilde-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230332\/","title":{"rendered":"Maura Tierney Will Be Honored at the Oscar Wilde Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMaura Tierney<\/a>, the two-time Emmy nominee now starring as Lieutenant Jessica Brady on NBC\u2019s Law & Order, has been announced as the first honoree at the 2026 Oscar Wilde Awards<\/a>, which is all set to celebrate its 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, will take place March 12 \u2014 in its traditional evening spot three days before the Academy Awards \u2014 at the historic Ebell theater in Los Angeles for a second straight year. A \u201cparty with a purpose,\u201d it celebrates the work of those from Ireland \u2014 and some who are not \u2014 who contribute to film, television and music.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe look forward to honoring Maura this year,\u201d US-Ireland Alliance founder and president Trina Vargo said in a statement. \u201cShe has had an incredible and enviable career in film, television and theater. She has always been proud of her Irish heritage and starred in Yasmina Reza\u2019s award-winning God of Carnage at the prestigious Gate Theatre in Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Boston-born Tierney recently appeared on the big screen in the A24 family wrestling drama The Iron Claw (2023) and in the Universal-Warner Bros. disaster sequel Twisters (2024).<\/p>\n

\n\tShe received an Emmy nomination in 2001 for her turn as Dr. Abby Lockhart on NBC\u2019s ER \u2014 she spent eight seasons on that show, from 1999 to 2009 \u2014 and landed another Emmy nom and a Golden Globe in 2016 for portraying Helen Solloway on Showtime\u2019s The Affair.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also spent five seasons on the NBC comedy NewsRadio and recurred on CBS\u2019 The Good Wife and FX\u2019s Rescue Me.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer film r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes Christopher Nolan\u2019s Insomnia (2002), Liar Liar (1997), Mike Nichols\u2019 Primary Colors (1998), Baby Mama (2008), Semi-Pro (2008), Beautiful Boy (2018) and The Report (2019), and she appeared opposite Tom Hanks on Broadway in Nora Ephron\u2019s Lucky Guy in 2013.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Irish singer Dave Lofts, whose sound has been described as reminiscent of Van Morrison and Paolo Nutini, will perform at the Ebell. His covers of \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d (Kate Bush) and \u201cSeventeen Going Under\u201d (Sam Fender) have received millions of streams, and some of his original songs \u2014 \u201cTell Me,\u201d \u201cLet Me Go Home\u201d and especially \u201cJust a Man\u201d \u2014 deal with such issues as mental health and anxiety.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDave Lofts<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy Oscar Wilde Awards<\/p>\n

\n\tOther Oscar Wilde honorees will be announced in the coming weeks. John C. Reilly<\/a>, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall<\/a>, and \u00c9anna Hardwicke<\/a> were feted last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tHonorees since the event\u2019s start in 2006 also have included Morrison, Norman Lear, Jim Sheridan, Eve Hewson, Catherine O\u2019Hara, Hylda Queally, Glenn Close, Ruth Negga, Saoirse Ronan, Martin Short, Kenneth Branagh, Jessie Buckley, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Dornan, Pierce Brosnan, Brendan Gleeson, Colm Meaney, Terry George, Michelle Williams, Neil Jordan and late THR writer-editor Steve Brennan.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that the March event will mark our 20th anniversary,\u201d Vargo said. \u201cFrom the outset, this was always a party with a purpose, and it has resulted in everything from J.J. Abrams filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Ireland, to a special episode of The Simpsons premiering in Ireland after we honored James L. Brooks, to several other movies being filmed there, as recently as this year. We are also delighted to bring attention to the amazing artistic talent of artists, from Oscar winners to those just getting their start.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe know that creative collaborations have been formed from this event and several artists have gotten agents, contracts and other opportunities as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNorthern Ireland Screen is among the sponsors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maura Tierney, the two-time Emmy nominee now starring as Lieutenant Jessica Brady on NBC\u2019s Law & Order, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10546,236,88,18551,128506,128507],"class_list":{"0":"post-230332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-law-order","12":"tag-maura-tierney","13":"tag-oscar-wilde-awards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}