Cara Horgan

Horgan has appeared in several television productions including Peep Show, Traitors, The Rotter's Club, Genius: Picasso and Jane Eyre.^[1]

She has appeared in films including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Wedding Video,^[2] Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin and Disobedience alongside Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz.

She appeared in music videos for Years & Years' single "Desire"^[3] and the Chemical Brothers' song "I'll See You There".^[4]

In 2008, Horgan appeared in Hedda, a modern updated version of Hedda Gabler, directed by Carrie Cracknell^[5] in which she played the lead character to favourable reviews; reviewer Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph wrote that she was "especially fine as a glamorous, bob-haired Hedda, ... using sex... like a shrimping net".^[6]

In 2009 she appeared in a revival of Ferdinand Bruckner's Krankheit der Jugend ("Pains of Youth"), directed by Katie Mitchell, at the National Theatre.^[5][7][8][9] In 2010, she appeared in Caryl Churchill's Far Away at Bristol Old Vic, directed by Simon Godwin.^[10][11]

In 2011, she performed in The School for Scandal directed by Deborah Warner and written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.^[5][12]

From 2013 to 2015 she joined Sean Holmes ten-member Secret Theatre company at the Lyric Hammersmith,^[5][13] which experimented with improvisational techniques towards drama. For some performances, a cast member's name was chosen from a hat by an audience member to be the show's protagonist; then, he or she would be "given a series of increasingly impossible acts to accomplish" which could involve such activities as complex dance routines, wrestling, singing and improvisation, according to one account.^[14][15] She performed with the ensemble for two years to positive reviews.^[16] In an extended interview in Exeunt Magazine, she described her work at Secret Theatre as giving her "freedom to play".^[17]

In 2015, she appeared in The Mother at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.^[18] In 2017 she appeared in Cellmates at The Hampstead Theatre directed by Edward Hall. Paul Taylor in The Independent wrote^[19] "Cara Horgan is delectable in a double as the Russian maid who duets with Bourke in his hammy renditions of “Danny Boy” for his captors and as the wife in a CND couple who have an inconvenient marital meltdown while helping Blake on his first night outside"

Film

Television

Theatre

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