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Maura Tierney’s Five Favorite Things at Home From a mini-me figurine to a puppet, little decorative details telegraph an appreciation of whimsy
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BY LAURA MORGAN
Haney. “It sort of reminds me of show business. There’s always somebody pulling the strings.” 4. SUMO-WRESTLING TICKET “My boyfriend and I went to Japan and we always call that trip our sec- ond date—which it kind of was,” she says. “We got tickets to a sumo- wrestling exhibition in Kyoto featuring some of the best sumo wrestlers, and also sumo-wrestling clowns, so half of it was a comedy show. You got a bag and a little bento box of lunch with your ticket, which is what this is. My boyfriend saved it and made it into this little piece for me.” 5. MINI-ME MODEL This 3-D-printed mini-figure is of Tierney’s American Rust character Grace Poe from a particularly dramatic moment on the show. “It’s a teeny-tiny toy model—they did one of me, and one of Jeff Daniels, and a bunch of the cast,” says the actress, who is personally anti-gun. “To make them, they had to take all of these pictures of us from different angles—you have to keep turning really slowly as they take photos of your face to capture your likeness.” The piece now lives on her desk. ■
T o be an actor is to always have one foot out the door. And Maura Tierney’s career—from her early days on ER to her current role opposite Jeff Daniels on Amazon Prime’s gritty drama American Rust — has taken her far and wide. “I’ve been working in Pittsburgh for two years on American Rust . I’ve worked in Oklahoma City, I’ve worked in Baton Rouge,” says Tierney, who considers herself, more or less, bicoastal. “My work has taken me away from both L.A. and New York, but I like to have a footprint in both places.” At the moment, the actress, who will next be seen in Twisters —which is shaping up to be the popcorn flick of the summer—is renting a lovely house in Venice, California. And while the home may not technically be hers, she’s made it her own. “It’s
1. CERAMIC FISH “This plugs in, and all of those little lights on the fish light up. If I remem- ber correctly, I found this at the Rose Bowl, or maybe the Santa Monica Flea—there used to be a different flea market every month here. I just think it’s a beautiful piece of ceramic, and I love that it lights up,” says Tierney. “My taste skews toward the whimsical. I don’t need things to be fancy.” 2. TAXIDERMY BIRD “I feel a little badly about it, because it’s taxidermy, but I just found it so delicate. It seemed like whoever made it put a lot of work into it,” says Tierney, who picked it up on a whim at an eclectic shop (which sadly no longer exists). “The little glass case is very delicate, and the little chick is so unique and soft, which is at odds with the fact that it’s taxidermy.” 3. ARTIST-MADE AUTOMATON “If you turn her on, the woman raises her hand up and down and manipu- lates the little puppet. I think it's such a beautiful little thing—just the atten- tion the artist gave to her clothing and the fact that it actually works,” the actress says of the piece by artist Tom
nice to have my quirky, weird things and my art with me,” she says. “Having those little special things around me is comforting.” Whatever the bones of her homes, they’re filled with unique items that telegraph her appreciation of whimsy. “I leave the details up to me because no one's going to pick out that weird stuff,” she says, with a laugh. And decorating with those pieces is a true labor of love. “A lot of my friends are artists or are talented at sketching, so a lot of the things in my New York home are drawings my friends made, or photographs they took, or photographs I took, so it tends to be personally curated.” From animal figurines to items infused with personal history, here are five of Tierney’s favorite things at her current Venice home.
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