Máiréad Tyers

Growing up in Ballinhassig outside Cork city in Ireland,{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzz.ie/culture/extraordinary-disney-plus-mairead-tyers-29058311|title=Extraordinary: Disney Plus show starring Cork actress Máiréad Tyers already renewed for season two|website=Buzz.ie|date=26 January 2023 }} Tyers had considered studying at University College Cork, but moved to London in 2017 following a successful audition for RADA.{{Cite web |title=Irish star Máiréad Tyers quit cinema job after landing role in Extraordinary on Disney+ |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/irish-star-mairead-tyers-quit-cinema-job-after-landing-role-in-extraordinary-on-disney-mlsjp0fwm |website=The Times|date=15 January 2023 }}{{Cite magazine |title=Máiréad Tyers on 'Extraordinary': 'there's a lot of very filthy humour' |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/features/mairead-tyers-on-extraordinary-theres-a-lot-of-very-filthy-humour-25997/ |magazine=Rolling Stone|date=24 January 2023 }} Tyers took part in a variety of stage and screen productions while studying at RADA, before graduating with a BA in Acting in 2020.{{Cite web |last=Fabrique |title=Máiréad Tyers — RADA |url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/m%C3%A1ir%C3%A9ad-tyers/ |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=www.rada.ac.uk |language=en-gb}}

Tyers was working in a cinema prior to landing her role in Extraordinary.

Tyers speaks English, as well as being proficient in Irish and French. She plays camogie, ultimate frisbee, and football. She sings soprano and can play piano to an intermediate level.

Whilst at RADA, Tyers had a successful table read with the academy's president, Kenneth Branagh, and subsequently appeared in his 2021 film Belfast. She appeared in the comedy play Changing the Sheets, at both Dublin Fringe Festival in 2021, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022.

Tyers played a small role in ITVX teen drama Tell Me Everything, which premiered in December 2022.

In 2023, Tyers appeared as Jen, the lead in Disney+ show Extraordinary, a role for which she was cast and started filming in late 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/streaming/news/disney-plus-extraordinary-mairead-tyers-1235122790/|title='Belfast's' Máiréad Tyers Tapped for New U.K. Disney Plus Comedy Series 'Extraordinary'|website=Variety|date=December 2021 }} Speaking of Tyers, Ed Power in The Irish Times called it a “breakout performance” of a “star in the making”.{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2023/01/25/extraordinary-its-got-siobhan-mcsweeney-star-in-the-making-mairead-tyers-and-some-er-misfiring-ira-gags/|title=Extraordinary: Never mind the, er, misfiring IRA gags. Watch it for star-in-the-making Máiréad Tyers|website=Irish Times}} For her role in season one of Extraordinary, she was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards in March 2024.{{cite web|url=https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2024|date=7 March 2024|website=RTS.org.uk|title= RTS PROGRAMME AWARDS 2024}} In March 2024, she was nominated in the “Female performance in a comedy programme” category at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/20/bafta-tv-awards-2024-nominations-full-list|website=The Guardian|date=20 March 2024|accessdate=20 March 2024|title= Bafta TV awards 2024 nominations: full list|first=Hollie |last=Richardson}} A second series aired on Disney+ on 7 March 2024.{{cite web|website=Irish Times|url= https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/03/06/extraordinary-review-cork-actor-mairead-tyers-excels-as-an-irish-transplant-in-london-navigating-the-trials-of-20-something-life/|accessdate=7 March 2024|title= Extraordinary review: Cork actor Máiréad Tyers excels as an Irish transplant in London navigating the trials of 20-something life|first=Ed|last=Power|date=6 March 2024}}

Tyers appeared in the 2023 action thriller Dead Shot{{Citation |last1=Guard |first1=Charles |title=Dead Shot |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8019518/ |type=Action, Thriller |publisher=Upper Street, Piecrust Pictures, Rocket Science |access-date=2023-02-11 |last2=Guard |first2=Thomas}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/extraordinary-disney-plus-cast/|title=Extraordinary cast: Meet the stars of Disney Plus superhero comedy|website=Radio Times}} and in the period dramedy series My Lady Jane.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/amazon-my-lady-jane-series-emily-bader-edward-bluemel-1235082202/|title='My Lady Jane':Amazon Dramedy Series About Brit Monarch Jane Grey Adds 13 To Cast|website=Deadline|date=2 August 2022 }}

Tyers appeared on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch on 25 February 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sunday-brunch/on-demand/75053-003|website=Channel 4|accessdate=19 March 2024|title=Sunday Brunch Sun 25 Feb, 9.30am|date=25 February 2024}}

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Category:Irish television actresses

Category:Living people

Category:Actors from County Cork

Category:Date of birth unknown

Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Category:21st-century Irish actresses

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