Sharon Horgan is an Irish actress, writer, director and producer. She is best known for the comedy series Pulling (2006) and Catastrophe (2015), both of which she starred in and co-wrote. In 2016 she created Divorce for US television and the following year she co-created Motherland for BBC2. In 2018 she starred in the movie Game Night. Most recently, she has starred in the movies Military Wives and Everybody's Talking About Jamie, whilst on television she plays Aisling Bea's sister in the sitcom This Way Up.

Filmography

• Vladimir — Executive Producer
• Youth — Alex, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Amandaland — Executive Producer, Creator
• The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox — Edda Mellas
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith — Gavol Martin
• 2024Your Monster — Executive Producer
• 2023A Greyhound of a Girl — Scarlett (voice)
• Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake — Additional Voices (voice), Minerva / Minervabot (voice)
• Best Interests — Nicci
• Dreamland — Creator
• 2023Rally Road Racers — Abby Jacks (voice)
• Bad Sisters — Eva Garvey, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Creator
• 2022Disability Benefits — Executive Producer
• 2022Motherland: Last Christmas — Writer
• Shining Vale — Executive Producer, Story, Creator
• 2022The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent — Olivia
• 2021Everybody's Talking About Jamie — Miss Hedge
• Frank of Ireland — Executive Producer
• HouseBroken — Tabitha (voice)
• Only Murders in the Building
• 2021Together — She
• 2020Dating Amber — Hannah
• 2020Herself — Producer
• 2020How to Build a Girl — Jo March
• 2020Military Wives — Lisa
• Criminal: UK — Danielle Dunne
• Frayed — Norma Staircastle, Executive Producer
• 2019Heyday - The Mic Christopher Story
• Modern Love — Writer, Director
• This Way Up — Shona, Executive Producer
• 2018Game Night — Sarah
• Women on the Verge — Dr. Fitzgerald, Creator
• Motherland — Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• Divorce — Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2016The Circuit — Writer, Executive Producer
• Catastrophe — Sharon Morris, Writer, Creator
• 2015Man Up — Elaine
• The Divorce — Creator
• BoJack Horseman — Courtney Portnoy (voice)
• 2014Run & Jump — Tara
• Psychobitches — Eva Perón, Virginia Woolf / Cleopatra, Leni Riefenstahl / Madame de Pompadour, Eve, Boudica, Unity Mitford / Tammy Wynette, Carmen Miranda / Anna Sewell, Bonnie Parker / Grace Kelly, P.L. Travers / Lucrezia Borgia, Simone de Beauvoir
• 2012Bad Sugar — Lucy Cauldwell
• Dead Boss — Helen Stephens, Creator
• Moone Boy
• Playhouse Presents — Jane Austen / Frida Kahlo, Eva Perón, Virginia Woolf / Cleopatra, Leni Riefenstahl / Madame de Pompadour, Eve, Boudica
• 2012The Week Before Christmas — Sharon's Mum, Writer, Director
• Bob's Burgers — Kathleen (voice)
• 2011Death of a Superhero — Renata Clarke
• 2011The Borrowers — Homily Clock
• Adventure Time — Minerva (voice)
• Big Babies — Carole
• 2010Brethren — Sharon
• 2010Miss Remarkable & her Career — Miss Remarkable (voice)
• The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret — Alice Bell
• Free Agents
• Moving On — Sarah
• Angelo's — Karen, Writer, Creator
• Comedy Showcase — Helen
• 2006Imagine Me & You — Beth
• Pulling — Donna, Writer
• Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
• Broken News — Katie Tate - ESN
• 2005Valiant — Charles De Girl (voice)
• Carrie & Barry — Jan
• 2004Trafalgar Square — Karen, Writer
• Monkey Dust — (voice)
• Futurama — Queen Dagmar (voice)
• I'm Glad My Mom Died — Executive Producer
• Into the Black — Carol
• The Last Drop

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2024Quintessentially Irish — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• Romesh: Talking to Comedians — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown — Self - Contestant
• Crackanory — Self
• The Last Leg — Self
• We Need Answers — Self - Contestant
• You Have Been Watching — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Friday Night Project — Self
• Have I Got News for You — Self - Hostess
• The Late Late Show — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self