Eleanor Tiernan

Eleanor Tiernan (born 1976) is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, and actress. She is from the County Roscommon side of Athlone and studied engineering at University College Galway before moving to London in 2015. She is a cousin of fellow Irish stand-up Tommy Tiernan.

Tiernan came to attention as a stand-up in the UK and Ireland, and as of 2019 had performed at the Edinburgh Fringe nine times. Her shows have included Help (2007), Help The Frigid (2014), and the 2015 tour National Therapy Project. She was a panellist on The Panel, performed on Stewart Lee's Alternative Comedy Experience, and in 2022 starred in ITV and Virgin Media Ireland's Holding. In 2020 she released a stand-up special, Success Without a Sex Tape, for BBC Radio 4, based on her 2018 Edinburgh show, and took part in Radio 4's The News Quiz in April 2022.

As a writer, Tiernan wrote and performed sketches for three seasons of the critically acclaimed political satire show Irish Pictorial Weekly (RTÉ). She has written for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, been a regular columnist in The Irish Examiner, contributed to Buffering for ITV2, and frequently writes opinion pieces for the Irish Times and The i. Inspired in part by Phillip Schofield, she came out publicly as gay in her forties. She performs her stand-up supporting Lucy Beaumont on tour.