Cara Horgan

Cara Horgan
Horgan in 2015
Born (1984-10-05) 5 October 1984 (age 40)
OccupationActress
Years active2004–present

Cara Horgan (born 5 October 1984) is an English actress who has appeared on stage, on television, and in films.

Career

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"

Filmography

Film

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

Television

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

Theatre

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

References

  1. ^ Horgan, Cara. "CV". Independent Talent. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. ^ "The Wedding Video – BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  3. ^ YearsAndYearsVEVO (3 March 2016), Years & Years – Desire ft. Tove Lo, retrieved 20 March 2016
  4. ^ Victor Solomatin (6 July 2015), The Chemical Brothers I'll See You There @ Sónar 2015, retrieved 20 March 2016
  5. ^ a b c d "Casting announced for THE MOTHER by Florian Zeller", LondonTheatre1News.com, 20 April 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015;
    "Cara Horgan's theatre credits ... Secret Theatre ... School For Scandal...Pains of Youth ...The House of Special Purpose... and Hedda Gabler ... film credits include The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ... and The Libertine..."
  6. ^ Charles Spencer, "Updated Hedda is off-target", telegraph.co.uk, 3 September 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "... Cara Horgan is especially fine as a glamorous, bob-haired Hedda ... using sex... like a shrimping net."
  7. ^ Caroline Bishop (19 August 2009). "Gambon Leads Bennett's Habit of Art", officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved July 2015.
  8. ^ MATT WOLF, On the London Stage, a 'Little Voice' Grown Powerful, nytimes.com, 18 November 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "... Cara Horgan and Leo Bill in Pains of Youth..."
  9. ^ Leo Benedictus, "What to say about ... Katie Mitchell's Pains of Youth: This dark play about medical students in 1920s Vienna has drawn forensic analysis from the critics. But do they give it a clean bill of health?", theguardian.com, 2 November 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "...Laura Elphinstone and Cara Horgan in Pains of Youth. ..."
  10. ^ Dominic Cavendish, "'Far Away' at the Bristol Old Vic" review; Caryl Churchill's 'Far Away' takes us into a deranged dystopia that may enrage but cannot be ignored", telegraph.co.uk, 31 May 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "... Cara Horgan plays the girl in later years, blithely working in a sinister hat factory on ornate creations for a "parade" of condemned prisoners (a chilling scene perfectly executed....)"
  11. ^ Dominic Maxwell, "Far Away at Bristol Old Vic", thetimes.co.uk, 31 May 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "...Far Away ... Cara Horgan (in photo)..."
  12. ^ David Benedict, The School for Scandal review (2011), Variety. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  13. ^ Michael Coveney. Whatsonstage.com, June 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  14. ^ Lucy Brooks, "Culture Whisper Review: A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts, Tricycle Theatre: Mind-boggling feats both silly and profound make for an engrossing and refreshingly honest show", CultureWhisper.com. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
    "... Cara Horgan, likewise, appeared in The Libertine and My Week with Marilyn. They have all been part of the Secret Theatre Company for at least two years now, under the direction of Sean Holmes, artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith. ..."
  15. ^ A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts, Tricycle Theatre, CultureWhisper.com, 12 January 2015 – 28 January 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
    "... Cara Horgan, likewise, appeared in The Libertine and My Week with Marilyn...."
  16. ^ Paul Taylor, Theatre review: Secret Theatre – Show 3, independent.co.uk, 28 October 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "...monstrously ambitious prison governor (superb Cara Horgan)..."
  17. ^ Dan Hutton, Freedom to Play: Q&A and Interviews, exeuntmagazine.com, 1 October 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
    "...according to Cara Horgan, asks "the audience to put their own interpretation or their own understanding of things on the work they're seeing...."
  18. ^ Lyn Gardner, "The Mother review – Gina McKee is ghost-like in haunting empty nest drama", theguardian.com, 29 May 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
    "...the beautiful Elodie (Cara Horgan)...."
  19. ^ "Cell Mates review: An astute revival". The Independent. 11 December 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2018.