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    Sharon Horgan

    Academy Member

    London based actress, writer, director and producer, Sharon Horgan is best known for her UK television work Pulling and Catastrophe.

    Pulling, was co-written by Horgan and Dennis Kelly, and features Horgan as Donna, an irresponsible marketing manager who calls off her wedding at the last minute. Horgan won a British Comedy Award in 2008 and 2009 and was nominated in for BAFTA Television Award in 2009 for the show.

    Catastrophe is a sitcom which is co-written and co-stars Rob Delaney. In Catastrophe Sharon Horgan plays Sharon and Irishwoman living in London who falls pregnant by Rob, an American she mets on business in London. The second season is currently airing on UK/Irish television.

    Sharon Horgan has won five IFTA Awards in both acting and writing for her work on Catastrophe. She also won the 2021 IFTA Award for Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Dating Amber.

    Horgan also created the US comedy series Divorce starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

    In 2022 Sharon Starred in the hit Apple TV series Bad Sisters where she played lead character Eva Garvey alongside Eva Birthistle and Anne Marie Duff, Sharon went on to Write and develope Bad Sisters Season 2 which recieved two IFTA wins in 2025 for best Actress in a lead role and Best Script. Bad Sisters also recieved a BAFTA for best Drama Series in 2025.

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    "I really want to thank IFTA because they've been so supportive and lovely to me over the years and I haven't lived here for years and I don't make any programs here and I've got this stupid accent now. Thank you so much, I'm really delighted." "

    Sharon Horgan
    (on receiving her IFTA win in 2018)

    Awards & Recognition

    Bad Sisters
    • IFTA Winner - Best Actress in a Lead Role, Drama (2025) 
    • IFTA Winner - Best Script, Drama (2025) 
    • IFTA Winner - Best Actress in a Lead Role, Drama (2023) 
    • BAFTA Winner - Best Drama Series (2025) 
    • Critics Choice Awards Nominee - Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2023) 
    Best interests
    • IFTA Nominee, Actress in a Lead role - Drama (2024)
    Dating Amber
    • IFTA Winner, Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Film (2021)
    Catastrophe
    • IFTA Winner, Best Lead Actress - Television (2018)
    • IFTA Winner, Best Writer - Soap or Comedy (2018)
    • IFTA Winner, Best Lead Actress - Television (2016)
    • IFTA Winner, Best Writer - Soap or Comedy (2016)
    • IFTA Winner, Best Writer Soap/Comedy (2015)
    • IFTA Winner, Best Actress Soap/Comedy (2015)
    • BAFTA Television Craft Award, Writer: Comedy (2016)
    • Primetime Emmy Award Nominee, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series(2016)
    Pulling
    • BAFTA Nominee - Best Comedy Performance (2009) 

    Key Credits

    • Bad Sisters (2022-2024) Eva Garvey
    • Mr & Ms smith (2024)Gavol
    • Best Interests (2023)Nicci
    • Housebroken (2021-2023)Tabitha
    • Disenchantment (2018-2023) Queen Dagmar
    • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
    • Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)
    • How to Build a Girl (2019)
    • Military Wives (2019)
    • Catastrophe (2015-2019)
    • Game Night (2018)
    • Man Up (2015)
    • Divorce (2015)
    • Psychobitches (2012-2014)
    • Pulling (2013)
    • Little Crackers (2010-2012)
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