Irish actress, writer, director, producer, and comedian (born 1970)
Sharon Horgan
Horgan in 2017
Born
Sharon Lorencia Horgan
(1970-07-13) 13 July 1970 (age 53)
London, England
Citizenship
Irish
Education
Brunel University (BA)
Occupations
Actress
writer
director
producer
comedian
Years active
1999–present
Spouse
Jeremy Rainbird
(m. 2005; div. 2019)
Children
2
Relatives
Shane Horgan (brother)
Sharon Lorencia Horgan (born 13 July 1970)[1] is an Irish actress, writer, director, producer, and comedian. She is best known for creating and starring in the comedy series Pulling (2006–2009), Catastrophe (2015–2019), and Bad Sisters (2022–present). She also created the comedy series Divorce (2016–2019), Motherland (2016–2022), and Shining Vale (2022–2023).
Horgan has appeared in films, such as Valiant (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Death of a Superhero (2011), Man Up (2015), Game Night (2018), Military Wives (2019), Dating Amber (2020), Together (2021), Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021), and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022).
Horgan won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best TV Actress for Pulling, while the show's 2009 hour-long final episode won the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Drama. A seven-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Writer for Catastrophe (with Rob Delaney). Catastrophe was also nominated for Scripted Comedy in the 2020 BAFTA TV Awards and for the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She has also won five Irish Film and Television Awards in both acting and writing for her work on Catastrophe. For her performance in Dating Amber, Horgan won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2023, Horgan earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Bad Sisters, including Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The series also won her the BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series that same year.
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live with Ray Liotta. In season 2, he starts living with David Spade. SharonHorgan as Tabitha, a 15-year-old Persian cat and a retired beauty queen, trying...
Dynasty-style soap operas, which starred Olivia Colman, Julia Davis and SharonHorgan, all of whom also co-conceived the show. Bain wrote the novel Yours...
Kinnear in the Starz horror comedy series Shining Vale, from creators SharonHorgan and Jeff Astrof; she plays Patricia "Pat" Phelps, who moves her family...
Retrieved 30 January 2024. Mangan, Lucy (17 June 2021). "Together review – SharonHorgan and James McAvoy let rip in lockdown tour de force". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077...
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