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Cara Horgan

Cara Horgan

Actor · b. 1984 · South East London, England, UK

Cara Horgan (born 5 October 1984) is a British 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. She has appeared in films including The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Wedding Video, 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" and the Chemical Brothers' song "I'll See You There". In 2008, Horgan appeared in Hedda, a modern updated version of Hedda Gabler, directed by Carrie Cracknell 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". 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. In 2010, she appeared in Caryl Churchill's Far Away at Bristol Old Vic, directed by Simon Godwin. In 2011, she performed in The School for Scandal directed by Deborah Warner and written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. From 2013 to 2015 she joined Sean Holmes ten-member Secret Theatre company at the Lyric Hammersmith, 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. She performed with the ensemble for two years to positive reviews. In an extended interview in Exeunt Magazine, she described her work at Secret Theatre as giving her "freedom to play". In 2015, she appeared in The Mother at the Ustinov Studio in Bath. In 2017 she appeared in Cellmates at The Hampstead Theatre directed by Edward Hall. Paul Taylor in The Independent wrote "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"

Series23

  • TV7.5

    Midsomer Murders

    1997 · 375 votes

  • TV7.6

    Silent Witness

    1996 · 113 votes

  • TV7.7

    Jane Eyre

    2006 · 137 votes

  • TV7.3

    Grantchester

    2014 · 151 votes

  • TV7.6

    Lewis

    2007 · 123 votes

  • TV7.2

    Waking the Dead

    2001 · 45 votes

  • TV7.8

    The Sandman

    2022 · 2.8K votes

  • TV7.5

    Genius

    2017 · 314 votes

  • TV7.0

    Law & Order: UK

    2009 · 45 votes

  • TV8.0

    Peep Show

    2003 · 456 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alex Rider

    2020 · 376 votes

  • TV6.8

    Flack

    2019 · 37 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Marlow Murder Club

    2024 · 44 votes

  • TV6.7

    Black Cake

    2023 · 52 votes

  • TV7.1

    A Young Doctor's Notebook

    2012 · 205 votes

  • TV7.2

    Afterlife

    2005 · 39 votes

  • TV6.2

    Traitors

    2019 · 60 votes

  • TV6.3

    Jo

    2013 · 20 votes

  • TV7.0

    Comedy Showcase

    2007 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Rotters' Club

    2005 · 1 votes

  • TV6.8

    Murder in Provence

    2022 · 19 votes

  • TV6.6

    West of Liberty

    2019 · 9 votes

  • TV4.5

    Fallen Angel

    2007 · 4 votes

Movies7

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie7.0

    The Death of Stalin

    2017 · 2.2K votes

  • Movie6.9

    Disobedience

    2018 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Libertine

    2004 · 501 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Wedding Video

    2012 · 40 votes

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