Sharon Horgan

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Agent: Duncan Hayes
Assistant: Joshua Baumring-Gledhill
2nd Assistant: Charlie Schanschieff

Acting

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 recent 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 to film later this year.

Sharon can most recently be seen 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.

 

 

Film

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

A Greyhound of a Girl

Scarlett

Enzo D'Alò

Studio Canal

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Olivia

Tom Gormican

Lionsgate

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Miss Hedge

Jonathan Butterell

Warp Films

How To Build A Girl

Jo March

Coky Giedroyc

Film4

Military Wives

Peter Cattaneo

Game Night

Sarah

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein

Warner Bros

Man Up

Elaine

Ben Palmer

Big Talk Productions

Run and Jump

Tara

Steph Green

R & J Film Productions

Death of a Superhero

Renata Clarke

Ian Fitzgibbon

Grand Pictures / Irish Film Board

Blah, Blah, Blah

Suzanne

Simon Ponsonby

Chance Remark

Imagine Me and You

Beth

Oliver Parker

Fragile Films Ltd

Valiant

Charles De Girl

Gary Chapman

Ealing Studios / Disney

Television

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Best Interests

Nicci

Michael Keillor

Chapter One Productions/Endeavor Content/ BBC

Bad Sisters

Eva Garvey

Rebecca Gatward, Josephine Bornebusch, Dearbhla Walsh

Apple TV+

Bob's Burgers

Kathleen

Various

20th Television

Housebroken

Tabitha

Various

Fox Entertainment

This Way Up

Shona

Alex Winckler

Merman

Catastrophe S1/S2/S3/S4

Sharon

Ben Taylor

Channel 4

Women on the Verge

Dr. Fitzgerald

Annie Griffin

UKTV

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

Alice Bell

Alex Harcastle

Channel 4

Crackanory

Storyteller - The Translator

Tiger Aspect

Moving On

Sarah

Johnny Vegas

LA Productions

Moone Boy

Sharon Morgan

Babycow

Bad Management

Eve

ABC

Little Cracker

Self

Sharon Horgan

Bwark Productions

Psychobitches

Jane Austen / Frida Kahlo

Jeremy Dyson

Tiger Aspect / Sky

Dead Boss

Helen

Steve Bendelack

BBC

Bad Sugar

Lucy

Ben Palmer

Tiger Aspect / Channel 4

The Borrowers

Homily Clock

Tom Harper

Working Title

Little Crackers - Capturing Santa

Mother

Peter Cattaneo

Sprout Pictures / Sky

Stanley Park

Auntie Pat

Misha Manson Smith

Mix Prods Ltd/BBC3/Lionsgate

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

Alice

David Cross

RDF/Channel 4

Pulling Special

Donna

Tristram Shapeero

BBC3

Free Agents

Helen

Richard Laxton

Big Talk/Channel 4

Comedy Showcase - Free Agents

Helen

Richard Laxton

Big Talk/Channel 4

Angelo's

Karen

Chloe Thomas

Bwark/FIVE

Pulling

Series 1&2

Tristram Shapeero

Silver River / BBC3

Annually Retentive

The Celebrity Booker

Paul Duddridge

Jones The Film / BBC3

Broken News

Series

John Morton

BBC2

Carrie & Barry

Jan

Martin Dennis

BBC1

Extras

Maggie's Cousin

Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant

BBC2

Dogging

Animation

 

Stickee Ltd for MTV UK

The Friday Night Project

Writer / Performer

Dean Nabarro

Princess for Channel 4

The Friday Night Show

Writer/Performer

Dominic Bridgestocke

Ealing for Channel 4

Gagging For It

Pilot

Simon Wilson

Monkey Kingdom for Channel 5

Raspberry Ripple

pilot

Roger Pomfrey

Outline Productions for BBC

The Great Love Swindle

Series Writer/Narrator

Chloe Thomas

Ealing for E4

Absolute Power

Performer (Theresa

John Morton

BBC2

Monkey Dust

Writer / Performer

Harry Thompson

Talkback / BBC Three

Dodgy Uncles

Writer / Performer

Harry Thompson

Talkback

The Pilot Show

Writer / Performer

Damon Beesley

C4 / E4

Semi Detached

Writer / Performer

Jim Field Smith

Shine Productions

The State We're In

Presenter

Alex Walsh Taylor

BBC Choice

Resistance

Series

Barbara Lee

BBC Three

Shoreditch Tw*t

Comedy Lab

Otto Bathurst

C4/Talkback

Spam

Pilot

Steve Kidgell

E4

Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment

Financial Advisor

Danny Wallace

BBC

Ccancun

pilot

Jeremy Lovering

BBC

The Girly Sketch Show

Various

Charles Martin

BBC

BBC New Comedy Awards

Various

Shane Allen

BBC

No Service Please, We're British

Presenter

Emma Davis

C5

Stage

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Terrible Advice

Delila

Frank Oz

Menier Chocolate Factory

Brendan's Visit

Jeanette

R. Chalmers

Canal Cafe/Etcetera

Horseman Pass By

Mrs Kelly

Michael Geliot

Unity Theatre

Love In The 18th Century

Philomel

Michael Geliot

Jermyn St.

Red Roses For Me

Finoola

Declan Mullohand

Unity Theatre

The Moth Hour

Reh. Reading

Tessa Walker

Old Vic (Studio)

The Seagull

Nina

R. Chalmers

Lost TC

To Steal A March On God

Martha

Andrew Herskovitz

The Gate

Weapons of War

Girl

Greg Mandry

Man In The Moon

Radio

ProductionCharacterDirectorCompany

Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Various

Chris Neil

BBC Radio 4

Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekend

Various

Kay Stonham

BBC Radio 4

That Jo Caulfield Show

Various

Chris Neil

BBC Radio 4

Film, TV & Theatre

Television

ProductionCompanyNotes

Dreamland

2023

Merman

Executive Producer

Bad Sisters 1

Apple TV+

Creator, Showrunner, Executive Producer, Writer

HouseBroken

Fox Entertainment

Executive Producer

Shining Vale

Starz

Co-creator/Executive Producer

Motherland 2

2018

Merman/ BBC2

Creator/ Co-Writer

Woman on the Verge

2018

Merman

Co-Writer

Catastrophe Series 4

2018

Avalon / Channel 4

Co-Writer / Performer

Sky Summer Shorts - Morgana Robinson's Summer

2017

Sky

Writer

Catastrophe 3

2016

Avalon/ Channel 4

Co-writer/ Performer

Motherland

2016

Merman/ BBC2

Creator/ Co-writer

The Circuit

2016

Merman

Co-Writer

Divorce

2016

HBO

Creator/ Writer

Catastrophe

2015

Avalon / Channel 4

Writer / Performer

Pulling USA

ABC

Exec Producer

Dead Boss (USA)

Warner Bros Pictures

Exec Producer

Bad Management

ABC

Writer/Performer

Dead Boss

BBC

Co-creator/Writer

Pulling Special

BBC3

Co-creator/Writer

Little Cracker

2012

Bwark Productions

Writer/Performer/Director

Angelo's

Bwark/FIVE

Writer

Pulling

Silver River / BBC3

Co-creator/Writer

Dodgy Uncles

Talkback for C4

Strange Love

Under Option

Semi Detached

BBC

Semi Detached

Shine Productions

The Pilot Show

E4

3 Non Blondes - Series I and II

BBC Three

Velvet Soup

BBC Scotland

Dogging

Stickee Ltd for MTV UK

The Friday Night Project

Princess for Channel 4

The Friday Night Show

Ealing for Channel 4

Resistance

BBC Three

Shoreditch Tw*t

C4/Talkback

The Girly Sketch Show

BBC

Monkey Dust

Talkback / BBC

Catastrophe

Avalon/C4

Co-creator/Writer

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

Herself

Amazon Video

Producer

Radio

ProductionCompanyNotes

Chain Reaction

2015

BBC Radio 4

Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore

BBC Radio 4

Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekend

BBC Radio 4

Comedy

Sharon is an Irish actress, writer and comedian.

Sharon is currently filming Series 2 of the smash hit CATASTROPHE in which she writes and stars opposite Rob Delaney. She has also recently wrapped on THE INCREASINGLY BAD DECISIONS OF TODD MARGARET Series 3 as Alice Bell.

Other recent projects in which Sharon appeared include the Tiger Aspect / Sky series PSYCHOBITCHES, playing a range of roles from Jane Austen to Boudica to Frida Kahlo.  She also shot BAD MANAGEMENT for ABC, which she wrote and starred in.

Sharon also starred in Sky's LITTLE CRACKERS which she also wrote and directed, and BAD SUGAR, a Tiger Aspect pilot for Channel 4, written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show), directed by Ben Palmer (Inbetweeners Movie) and co-starring Olivia Colman and Julia Davis.

Awards: BAFTA nominated for PULLING 2007, Winner of the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Actress 2008, BAFTA nominated 2009, Winner of the Southbank Show Comedy Award 2009 for PULLING, Winner of British Comedy Award 2009 for PULLING SPECIAL