Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective with actor Sharon Horgan.
BIO:
Sharon Horgan is a dynamic, witty, and talented multihyphenate whose exceptional storytelling skills have brought her international recognition. She is an award-winning creator, writer, producer, and actor who portrays the experiences of strong, female-driven stories.
Horgan is the writer, co-creator, executive producer, and star of the comedy thriller series BAD SISTERS with Apple TV+, the second season which was released last November. Horgan and the show’s first season won the competitive Best Drama Series prize at the BAFTA TV Awards, while Horgan was nominated for BAFTA’s Writer of a Comedy. Horgan also won Best Actress in a Lead Role - Drama at the 2023 IFTA Awards and was a nominee for Best Script – Drama. Additionally, Horgan was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The show’s other nominations include a Critics Choice Award, Best Drama Series and Best Actress in a Drama Series, and two nominations from the WGA Awards: Best New Series and Best New Episodic Drama. Season two earned a PGA Nomination for the Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama as well as an IFTA Nomination for Best Actress in a Lead Role – Drama.
The series, which premiered in August 2022, follows a group of five sisters (the Garveys) and the promise they make to always protect each other after their parents’ premature death. The series stars Horgan alongside Eve Hewson, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene, Anne-Marie Duff, and Claes Bang. BAD SISTERS is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 100% audience score and Time has called the series “wickedly funny” and “genuinely poignant.”
Horgan recently wrapped production on Hulu’s Amanda Knox limited series in which she plays Amanda’s mother Edda Mellas opposite Grace Van Patten who plays Knox. The limited series is based on the true story of how Amanda Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.
She and her production company Merman recently signed a first-look deal with HBO. Under the deal, HBO has given a straight-to-series order to a new comedy written, executive produced by and starring Horgan. The yet-untitled half-hour, produced by Merman, follows a 50-year-old divorcee’s (Horgan) search for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son. This marks a return to HBO for Horgan who created and executive produced the network’s 2016 comedy series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, which ran for three seasons.
Also on television, Horgan starred in the drama series BEST INTERESTS, written by Jack Thorne. It is a story about a family driven to make choices no parent would ever want to make, as well as highlighting the troubled relationship the UK has with disability. The show aired on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, with Horgan starring opposite Michael Sheen who played her husband. She had a guest-starring role on Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated hit MR. AND MRS. SMITH opposite Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.
Horgan is best known for her multiple award-winning sitcom CATASTROPHE, which she co-wrote and starred in with Rob Delaney. She won the BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series in 2016 and also gained three BAFTA nominations for her extraordinary performance
Horgan is also the co-founder, alongside Clelia Mountford, of the TV and Film production company Merman. Merman recently sold a limited series to Netflix called VLADAMIR starring Rachel Weisz. Weisz will play a woman obsessed with a colleague in the show based on Julia May Jonas' novel. Horgan will serve as Executive Producer. Under the Merman banner, Horgan co-created SHINING VALE, a two-season horror comedy series starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, which premiered on Starz on March 6, 2022. Horgan’s other credits for Merman include executive producing and starring in the animated comedy HOUSEBROKEN on Fox, which stars Lisa Kudrow and was co-created by Clea Duvall, Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan. Horgan also executive produced FRANK OF IRELAND (Channel 4/Amazon) and co-wrote and executive produced the BAFTA winning MOTHERLAND on BBC. She was also an executive producer of FRAYED (Sky/ABC), THERE SHE GOES (BBC/Britbox) and THIS WAY UP (Ch4/Hulu), which she also starred in alongside creator Aisling Bea.
Horgan’s further recognition includes the BAFTA TV Award for Best Short Form Programme (2018) for MORGANA ROBINSON’S SUMMER: DREAMLAND and an Outstanding Achievement Award for her debut short film THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS. At the National Comedy Awards, Horgan 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. She also wrote and directed an episode of Amazon’s anthology MODERN LOVE, “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive” and starring Tina Fey and John Slattery.
On the film side, Horgan can be seen most recently starring opposite Nicolas Cage in THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, which was released in April 2022. She also starred opposite James McAvoy in the Stephen Daldry directed film TOGETHER for BBC Two and BBC Film. In 2021, she took on the role of Miss Hedge in the BAFTA nominated feature film adaptation of the West End musical EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE. She also starred alongside Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman and Kyle Chandler in the critical and commercial hit feature film GAME NIGHT. In 2020, she starred in MILITARY WIVES opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and the Irish comedy-drama film DATING AMBER, for which she won an IFTA for Best Supporting Actress.
Horgan’s further acting credits include CRIMINAL UK (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 (
