Sharon Horgan

Irish actor and writer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irish actors take to picket line in Hollywood

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

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

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

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

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?

‘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

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

‘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

Hollywood writers’ strike is at once heartening and depressing

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

‘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

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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+

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

‘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

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

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

Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations

Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award

Return of BBC Three shows linear TV is not quite dead yet

Yanking channel was ‘a bit mad’, but future interest of younger viewers must be in doubt

How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism

A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines

Katherine Ryan: ‘I definitely felt shame as a single mother, the way people word things’

The Canadian stand-up on ‘laddish’ comedy culture, her Irish dad and flipping stereotypes in new series The Duchess

Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in September

Including Hilary Swank in space drama Away and Jessie Buckley in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Graham Norton, Aisling Bea, Catastrophe and Derry Girls nominated for Baftas

Sharon Horgan and Lisa McGee’s comedies join chatshow host in running for TV awards

Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland

Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft

Here’s to Irish women, what a glorious bunch of gals we are

This International Women’s Day, let’s take a moment to bask in our collective magnificence

Military Wives: Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan play delightfully off one another

Review: Horgan sounds slightly too posh for her character – otherwise this is pretty good

Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes

Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival

Sundance Film Festival: Irish film Herself wins rave reviews

Performances praised in film about abused woman caught up in the Irish housing crisis

Rob Delaney: ‘As my career took off, my son got sick . . . then he died’

The Catastrophe star on working through the pain and becoming a better dad

TV in 2019: A year of big and unhappy endings

Fleabag, Game of Thrones and Catastrophe all ended – and somehow brought us all together

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