41 Facts About Sharon Horgan

Sharon Horgan is best known for creating and starring in the comedy series Pulling, Catastrophe, and Bad Sisters.

Sharon Horgan created the comedy series Divorce, Motherland, and Shining Vale.

Sharon 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.

Sharon Horgan has won five Irish Film and Television Awards in both acting and writing for her work on Catastrophe.

Sharon Horgan's mother is Irish and her father is from New Zealand.

One of five siblings, Sharon Horgan later used her childhood experiences for the semi-autobiographical short film The Week Before Christmas for Sky Arts 1.

Sharon Horgan went to the Sacred Heart convent school in Drogheda.

At the age of 27, Sharon Horgan started a degree in English and American Studies at Brunel University in west London, graduating in 2000.

Around that time, Sharon Horgan met British writer Dennis Kelly, while they were both working in youth theatre, and they started writing together, producing material they then sent to the BBC, for which they won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2001 for Sketch Writing and Performance.

Sharon Horgan's first credited appearances on television were in The State We're In and Monkey Dust, two sketch shows based on news and current affairs.

Sharon Horgan's first named acting role on television was as Theresa O'Leary in Absolute Power, a comedy set in the world of public relations and starring Stephen Fry.

Sharon Horgan starred in two series of Pulling, which she co-wrote with Dennis Kelly.

Sharon Horgan has a supporting role in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opposite Nicolas Cage which was released in March 2022.

Sharon Horgan appeared as a guest booker in two series of Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, on the BBC, a spoof comedy set behind the scenes of a chat show presented by Rob Brydon.

Sharon Horgan won a British Comedy Award in 2007 for Best Female Newcomer for her performance.

In 2010 Sharon Horgan appeared in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

Sharon Horgan played Alice Bell, the cafe owner on whom he developed a crush.

In June 2012 Sharon Horgan was part of the ensemble cast for the pilot episode of Psychobitches, shown as part of Sky Arts 1's Playhouse Presents strand.

Sharon Horgan is well known for her role in Catastrophe, alongside Rob Delaney, a show which they co-created for Channel 4 and Amazon.

Sharon Horgan appeared in 2020's second series of Criminal UK, BBC's The Borrowers, Dead Boss and Channel 4's Free Agents and Bad Sugar.

Sharon Horgan played a supporting role in the 2018 dark comedy film Game Night as Sarah, a newcomer to the group of friends unwittingly roped into the game.

Sharon Horgan appeared in films Death of a Superhero, Run and Jump, Man Up, with Simon Pegg, Military Wives with Kristen Scott Thomas, Dating Amber, and BBC Two film Together alongside James McAvoy.

Sharon Horgan appeared in the feature film adaptation of the West End musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie as Miss Hedge, which was released in September 2021.

Sharon Horgan played Donna, an irresponsible marketing manager who calls off her wedding at the last minute, and one of three women sharing a flat in Penge, south London.

In 2007, the show was nominated for a British Academy Television Award and Sharon Horgan was nominated for a British Comedy Award.

In 2007 Sharon Horgan wrote Angelo's directed by Chloe Thomas and in June 2012 Sharon Horgan starred in Dead Boss, a sitcom set in a prison, which she wrote with comic Holly Walsh.

Sharon Horgan was twice nominated for a Best Female Comedy Performance BAFTA for her role.

Sharon Horgan wrote Divorce, a US comedy series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays a New York woman going through a lengthy divorce.

Sharon Horgan co-created and co-writes Motherland for BBC Two, a programme about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive side and unromantic take on parenting - not the cute and acceptable public face of motherhood, which is in its third series.

Sharon Horgan co-created and executive produced Shining Vale, alongside Jeff Astrof: a horror-comedy series for Starz.

Sharon Horgan is writing alongside Kate Folk on a half-hour dramedy in development with 20th Television for Hulu, which will be set in the world of technology and dating and is based on The New Yorker Magazine short story 'Out There' by Folk.

In December 2012 Sharon Horgan made her directorial debut with the semi-autobiographical film The Week Before Christmas, which was broadcast as part of the Little Crackers series of short films on Sky 1.

In February 2005 Sharon Horgan co-presented the first series of The Friday Night Project, a comedy variety show on Channel 4.

On 3 June 2011, Sharon Horgan was the guest host of Have I Got News for You on BBC1.

Sharon Horgan has presented a series of documentaries for Channel 4.

Sharon Horgan appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Chain Reaction in March and April 2015.

In 2014, Sharon Horgan established Merman, an independent production company, with Clelia Mountford, who produced A Young Doctor's Notebook, Mr Sloane, and Cockroaches.

Sharon Horgan now has offices in London, New York and LA.

Merman has co-produced many shows including Divorce, an American comedy series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays a New York woman going through a lengthy divorce, Sharon Horgan created the series.

Sharon Horgan has won and been nominated for a whole host of awards, including film Herself longlisted for Outstanding British Film at the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards, There She Goes winning Best Returning Comedy-Drama Series at the 2020 C21 International Drama Awards and a Female Performance in a Comedy award at the 2019 BAFTA TV Awards.

Sharon Horgan's younger brother Shane is a former international rugby union player who played wing or centre for Leinster and Ireland, and is a rugby analyst for RTE Sports.