Sharon Horgan

Sharon Horgan is a multi-BAFTA award-winning Irish actress, writer, producer, and director, best known for her multiple award-winning sitcom CATASTROPHE, which she co-wrote and starred in with Rob Delaney, and most recently for her critically acclaimed comedy-thriller series BAD SISTERS for Apple TV+ which she co-created, wrote, executive-produced, and stars as a leading role in – and which garnered rave reviews, and has wins for BAFTA Television Awards, (Best Drama Series) and IFTA Television Awards (Best Drama and Lead Actress in a Drama, as well as nominations for Critics Choice Awards (Best Drama and Best Lead Actress in Drama) and the Writers Guild Awards (Best New Series.) Series 2 is due for release in November 2024. 

Sharon starred in  BEST INTERESTS on BBC One, written by Jack Thorne. She plays the lead role opposite Michael Sheen and Alison Oliver. 

In 2021, Sharon starred opposite James McAvoy in the Stephen Daldry directed film TOGETHER for BBC Two and BBC Film, which recently won Best Single Drama at the 2022 TV BAFTAS. She played Miss Hedge in the Bafta nominated feature film adaptation of the West End musical EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE and can currently be seen in UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT opposite Nicolas Cage.

Other recent screen work includes GAME NIGHT opposite Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman,  MILITARY WIVES opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and the Irish comedy-drama film DATING AMBER, for which she won an IFTA for Best Supporting Actress. The same year, Sharon wrote and directed an episode of Amazon’s anthology MODERN LOVE, “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive” and starring Tina Fey and John Slattery.

Further acting credits include THIS WAY UP,  CRIMINAL (Netflix), BOB’S BURGERS (Fox),  BOJACK HORSEMAN (Netflix),  THE INCREASINGLY POOR DECISIONS OF TODD MARGARET (IFC),  ADVENTURE TIME (CARTOON NETWORK), PSYCHOBITCHES (Sky Arts), THE BORROWERS (BBC), FREE AGENTS (C4), DEAD BOSS(BBC) and BAD SUGAR (C4), as well as the films RUN AND JUMP, DEATH OF A SUPERHERO, and MAN UP. 

Awards for CATASTROPHE include the BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series in 2016 and she also gained three BAFTA nominations for her performance in the show, alongside a Primetime Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. At the National Comedy Awards 2022 Sharon was awarded the Caroline Ahearne Outstanding Achievement Award. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations and two British Comedy Awards for her iconic BBC show  PULLING which she co-wrote and starred in. Sharon’s other credits for Merman include executive producing and starring in the animated comedy HOUSEBROKEN (Fox), which stars Lisa Kudrow, co-created by Clea Duvall, Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan. Sharon also executive produced FRANK OF IRELAND (Channel 4/Amazon), which was created by Brian and Domhnall Gleeson and Michael Moloney; co-writing and Executive Producing  the Bafta nominated MOTHERLAND (BBC). Sharon was also an Executive Producer of two series of FRAYED (Sky/ABC), created by and starring Sarah Kendall; THERE SHE GOES (BBC/Britbox) and THIS WAY UP (Ch4/Hulu), which she also starred in alongside creator Aisling Bea – and most recently she co created SHINING VALE, an eight-part horror comedy series starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, which premiered on Starz on March the 6th, 2022.