Cara Horgan
British actress (born 1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cara Horgan (born 5 October 1984) is a British actress who has appeared on stage, on television, and in films.
Career
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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".
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Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Director | Venue |
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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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