Cara Horgan | |
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 Horgan in 2015 | |
| Born | 5 October 1984 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Cara Horgan (born 5 October 1984) is an English actress who has appeared on stage, on television, and in films.
Cara Horgan | |
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| Horgan in 2015 | |
| Born | 5 October 1984 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Cara Horgan (born 5 October 1984) is an English actress who has appeared on stage, on television, and in films.
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"
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Libertine | Acting Troop | |
| 2008 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Maria | |
| 2010 | Cowards and Monsters | Fun_girl73 | Short |
| 2012 | The Wedding Video | Roxy | |
| 2014 | Steak Knife | Sara | Short |
| 2017 | The Death of Stalin | Lidiya Timashuk | |
| 2017 | Disobedience | Miss. Scheinburg |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Rotters Club | Claire Newman | BBC |
| 2005 | Afterlife | Veronica | Guest Lead |
| 2006 | The Romantics | Mary Shelley | |
| 2006 | Jane Eyre | Eliza Reed | BBC |
| 2007 | Fallen Angel | Joanna | ITV |
| 2007 | Peep Show | Aurora | Objective Productions |
| 2007 | Silent Witness | Anna Holland | BBC |
| 2008 | Ladies and Gentlemen | Emily | Talkback |
| 2009 | Lewis | Alice Wishart | ITV |
| 2011 | Waking The Dead | Lucy Christie | BBC |
| 2011 | Law & Order:UK | Elizabeth Lerner | Kudos |
| 2012 | A Young Doctor's Notebook | Klara | Big Talk |
| 2013 | Jo | Maria | |
| 2013 | Common Ground | Suzi | Baby Cow Productions |
| 2016 | Midsomer Murders | Rachel Monkford | Bentley Productions |
| 2018 | Genius: Picasso | Alice B.Toklas | National Geographic |
| 2018 | West of Liberty | Johnson | 6 Episodes |
| 2019 | Traitors | Rae Savitt | 4 Episodes Guest Lead |
| 2019 | Flack | Camilla | Hat Trick Productions |
| 2021 | Alex Rider | Polly Hudson | IMDbTV |
| 2021 | Murder in Provence | Elodie Liotta | ITV/Britbox |
| 2021 | The Sandman | Zelda | Netflix |
| 2022 | Black Cake | Mildred | Hulu |
| 2023 | The Marlow Murder Club | Becks Starling | PBS/UKTV |
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Hedda | Hedda | Carrie Cracknell | The Gate Theatre |
| 2009 | The House of Special Purpose | Olga | Howard Davies | Chichester Festival Theatre |
| 2009 | Pains of Youth | Irena | Katie Mitchell | The National Theatre |
| 2010 | Far Away | Joan | Simon Godwin | Bristol Old Vic |
| 2011 | The School for Scandal | Maria | Deborah Warner | The Barbican |
| 2013-2015 | Secret Theatre - Woyzeck - A Streetcar Named Desire - Chamber Piece - Glitterland - A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts - Show 6 - A Stab in the Dark | Various | Sean Holmes | The Lyric, Hammersmith |
| 2015 | The Mother | Elodie | Laurence Boswell | Bath Ustinov |
| 2017 | Cellmates | Miranda/Zinaida | Edward Hall | The Hampstead Theatre |
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