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Janine Harouni
Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 3, 1988 (37 years)
Janine Harouni is a UK-based American stand-up comedian and actress. Harouni was raised in Staten Island, New York City by a Lebanese-American father and a mother of Irish and Italian ancestry. In 2009, Harouni was grievously injured when a car crashed into a parked vehicle she was in, breaking her pelvis, femur, legs, and wrists. She moved to London in 2012.
In 2018, Harouni won the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year. She won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2019
In 2019, Harouni performed a well received debut show, Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at that year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She returned to the Fringe in 2023, performing Man'oushe while heavily pregnant, and was nominated for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Harouni played Thalia in the ITV show Buffering from 2021–2023, and appeared as Carla Diaz in The Batman (2022).
In 2018, Harouni won the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year. She won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2019
In 2019, Harouni performed a well received debut show, Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at that year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She returned to the Fringe in 2023, performing Man'oushe while heavily pregnant, and was nominated for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Harouni played Thalia in the ITV show Buffering from 2021–2023, and appeared as Carla Diaz in The Batman (2022).
Filmography
| 2024 | The Franchise (2024) (TV Series) · as Meg Coker |
| 2022 | The People We Hate at the Wedding · as Young Woman At Airport |
| 2022 | Avoidance (TV Series) · as Riley |
| 2022 | The Batman · as Carla |
| 2021 | Buffering (TV Series) · as Thalia |
| 2020 | The Emily Atack Show (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2019 | Very Valentine · as Pamela |
| 2018 | Colette · as Jeanne De Caillavet |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose (TV Series) · as Funeral Parlour Receptionist |
| 2018 | Soft Border Patrol (TV Series) · as Miss Truth |
| 2017 | Bucket (TV Series) · as Yoga Teacher |
| 2011 | Bob's Burgers (TV Series) · as Dania |