Sharon Horgan

Irish actor and writer

Bad Sisters review: Beautiful Dublin shines again as Sharon Horgan serves up another course of zinging dark comedy

Television: Beautiful Dublin shines again in series two of Apple’s comic thriller

Wed Nov 13 2024 - 05:45

Sharon Horgan: ‘I’m even more hyper now. That could be the hormones. I’m on a lot of testosterone’

Sharon Horgan on series two of Bad Sisters, grieving her father on set, coping with menopause and stretching her acting muscles

Sat Nov 09 2024 - 05:45

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in November

Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more

Fri Nov 01 2024 - 05:15

Bad Sisters actor Eva Birthistle: I’d just given birth, felt like I’d been murdered, and the midwife says ‘your husband did so well’

For the Irish actor, whose on-screen roles include Brooklyn and Bad Sisters, making the move to go behind the camera is a proud, slightly nerve-racking moment with her new film Kathleen Is Here

Sat Oct 19 2024 - 05:00

Eve Hewson on finding her own fame: ‘Some people have no idea of the connection or don’t even care. It’s a nice feeling’

When young, she questioned whether people were her friends because they liked her, or because they liked her father Bono

Wed Sept 04 2024 - 05:00

A Greyhound of a Girl: Terrific Irish ensemble enlivens charming tale that makes weighty themes feel feather-light

Animation of Roddy Doyle’s children’s book of same name leans into writer’s reliable ear for the vernacular

Thu Jun 27 2024 - 05:00

Good timing pays off again for Cecelia Ahern

Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names

Sun Apr 28 2024 - 06:00

Mr & Mrs Smith review: Sharon Horgan makes a cameo in this joyless clunker

Television: Donald Glover’s dour thriller is blunt reminder that some things are best left in the past

Fri Feb 02 2024 - 05:45

Sexy Beast star Sarah Greene: ‘To play someone so sexually empowered, I had to fall in love with my body’

A new series for the Bad Sisters and Normal People actor features her showiest display yet

Sun Jan 21 2024 - 05:15

Emmy Awards 2023: Succession, Beef and The Bear win big at delayed ceremony

Irish interest in LA awards did not translate to prizes despite nominations for Sharon Horgan, Dearbhla Walsh and Declan Lowney

Tue Jan 16 2024 - 06:46

Bad Sisters does good business for Sharon Horgan’s TV production company

Writer and actor owns 35% of group that has delivered profits of €1.78m over two years as business ramped up after pandemic

Tue Jan 09 2024 - 16:44

Saoirse Ronan: ‘In Ireland there was such ownership over women, physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially’

The four-time Oscar nominee from Ireland says she does not take for granted ‘the incredible stock’ she comes from

Thu Sept 07 2023 - 19:25

Irish actors take to picket line in Hollywood

Chief problems cited as rerun payments, airings after initial release and artificial intelligence technology

Thu Aug 03 2023 - 19:00

Emmys 2023: Bad Sisters leads Irish nominations with four nods

Declan Lowney shortlisted for Ted Lasso while final season of Succession dominates with 27 nods

Thu Jul 13 2023 - 10:20

Hollywood hit Cocaine Bear among film projects securing Irish tax credits

Third series of Netflix hit Valhalla has been the largest budget production to date in Ireland, getting tax relief of between €10m and €30m

Tue Jul 11 2023 - 16:59

Irish screenwriters join global day of solidarity in support of US strike

Writers Guild of Ireland to stage event in Dublin backing ongoing industrial action by 11,500 US film and television writers

Wed Jun 14 2023 - 05:00

Best Interests: Sharon Horgan moves between dread, fear and anger in this heartbreaking drama

Television: Horgan plays Nicci, mother of Marnie, who has fallen into a coma. Should Nicci and her husband agree to turn off her life support?

Mon Jun 12 2023 - 22:00

‘We spent a lot of time in terrible pain’: Sharon Horgan on making new drama Best Interests

BBC series, which also stars Dublin actor Niamh Moriarty, dances between comedy and tragedy in a remarkable way

Mon Jun 12 2023 - 12:03

TV guide: The best shows to watch this week, beginning tonight

Best Interests, family history with Tony Connolly and Roy Keane’s trip to Cork with Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher

Sun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00

‘I felt seen and understood’: Irish teenage actor with cerebral palsy Niamh Moriarty on starring in new BBC drama

The Dublin actor stars alongside Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen in Best Interests

Sat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00

Hollywood writers’ strike is at once heartening and depressing

When studios and streamers skimp on the screenwriting process, everybody is short-changed

Tue May 16 2023 - 05:00

‘Joke’s on you, Mam!’ Siobhán McSweeney raises the roof with her Bafta acceptance speech

At the Bafta TV awards 2023, Siobhán McSweeney joins Lisa McGee, Anne-Marie Duff and Sharon Horgan as Derry Girls and Bad Sisters scoop prizes

Sun May 14 2023 - 21:52

Sharon Horgan and Michelle Gallen win comedy writing prizes

Comedy Women in Print organisers says awards scheme is only awards of its kind in UK and Ireland that ‘shines a light on witty novels by women’

Mon Apr 17 2023 - 21:30

Sharon Horgan and Lily Allen’s Dreamland promised lots of laughs. We barely got one

Television: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funny

Thu Apr 06 2023 - 21:30

Baftas 2023: Derry Girls, Sharon Horgan’s Bad Sisters and Cillian Murphy among nominations

Irish talent prominent across several categories in acting, writing and directing

Wed Mar 22 2023 - 10:35

First Aid Kit: ‘We couldn’t believe what was happening to us. We just kept going’

Sisters are one of the decade’s greatest country rock institutions even if they hail from suburban Stockholm rather than downtown Nashville

Sat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00

TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony

Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future

Mon May 09 2022 - 10:20

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Sharon Horgan is funny, Nic Cage is himself

Review: Cage plays a version of himself, similar to his Wild at Heart character

Fri Apr 22 2022 - 05:00

Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’

The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women

Sat Feb 19 2022 - 06:00

Revealed: The new comedy series Sharon Horgan was filming at the Forty Foot

Paul Howard is one of the writers of the show, which will be streamed on Apple TV+

Wed Oct 06 2021 - 16:19

Londoners will love Aisling Bea’s This Way Up. We might roll our eyes a little

TV review: The Kildare comedian explores the irritations and melancholy of modern life

Thu Jul 15 2021 - 19:37

‘Succession? I thought, I don’t want to write for a load of white men who are evil’

A career working on Succession, Veep, The Thick of It and other hit TV shows has given Georgia Pritchett a taste for finding the humanity in even the worst characters

Sat Jul 10 2021 - 06:00

Iftas 2021: Posthumous award for ‘searing’ Nika McGuigan is the moment of the night

The hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into Iftas

Sun Jul 04 2021 - 23:00

Together: Sharon Horgan digs deep in a pained performance opposite James McAvoy

TV review: This BBC drama is rooted in the hopes, fears and claustrophobia of coronavirus

Thu Jun 17 2021 - 22:30