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- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Sharon Lorencia Horgan is an Irish actress, writer, director, comedian and producer. She is best known for the comedy series Pulling (2006-2009) and Catastrophe (2015-2019), both of which she starred in and co-wrote. She also created the HBO comedy series Divorce (2016-2019).
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. Horgan also won the 2021 Irish Film and Television Award in the category of Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Dating Amber (2020).
Horgan has appeared in the films Valiant (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Man Up (2015), and Game Night (2018), Military Wives (2019), Dating Amber (2020), and BBC Two film Together (2021).
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseJeremy Rainbird(October 16, 2006 - present) (separated, 2 children)
- ChildrenSadhbh RainbirdAmer Rainbird
- ParentsUrsula HorganJohn Horgan
- RelativesShane Horgan(Sibling)Maria Horgan(Sibling)Lorraine Horgan(Sibling)Mark Horgan(Sibling)
- Her Emmy nomination for Catastrophe (2015) marked the first Emmy nomination for writing for a British comedy series in nine years.
- Left Ireland in order to pursue an acting career in London. However, she ended up working at a job center for five years (and later returned for half a year), after being turned down by every major acting school in London.
- Grew up on a turkey farm.
- Born in London, to an Irish mother and a New Zealand father, and raised in Bellewstown, County Meath, Ireland. Sister of Irish rugby player Shane Horgan.
- Created the series Pulling (2006), which she also starred in, after being dissatisfied with the roles available to her.
- Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
- At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.
- You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?
- I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.
- I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
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