Cara Horgan

Cara Horgan
Born Southeast England
Nationality British
Education Drama Centre London
Occupation Actor
Years active 2004 – present

Cara Horgan is an English actress who has worked in television, film, and theatre.[1]

Career

Theatre

Ustinov Studio in Bath, England where Horgan performed in 2015.

In 2008, Horgan appeared in Hedda directed by Carrie Cracknell[2] in which she played the lead character to favourable reviews; reviewer Charles Spencer in The Telegraph wrote that she was "especially fine as a glamorous, bob-haired Hedda, ... using sex... like a shrimping net."[3] 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.[2][4][5][6] In 2010, she appeared in Far Away, directed by Simon Godwin.[7][8] In 2011, she performed in The School for Scandal directed by Deborah Warner and written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.[9][2]

From 2013-2015 she joined Sean Holmes ten-member Secret Theatre company at the Lyric Hammersmith,[2][10] 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.[11][12] She performed with the ensemble for two years to positive reviews.[13] In an extended interview in Exeunt Magazine, she described her work at Secret Theatre as giving her "freedom to play".[14]

In 2015, she appeared in The Mother at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.[15]

Filmography

In film, Horgan has worked with actors including Johnny Depp, David Thewlis and Lucy Punch.[16][17]

Year Film Role
2004 The Libertine Acting Troop[16][2]
2005 The Rotters' Club Claire Newman
2005 Afterlife Veronica Vass[16]
2006 The Romantics Mary Shelley
2006 Jane Eyre Eliza Reed[16]
2007 Fallen Angel Joanna Clifford
2007 Silent Witness Anna Holland
2007 Comedy Showcase: Ladies and Gentlemen Emily
2007 Peep Show Aurora
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Maria[16][18][19][2]
2009 Lewis Alice Wishart
2010 Waking The Dead Lucy Christie
2010 My Week with Marilyn Colin's Secretary
2011 Law and Order UK Elizabeth Lerner[16]
2012 The Wedding Video Roxy[16][17]
2012 Jo Marla
2012 Elenor Poppelwell-Common People Suzi

Television

Year Show Role Notes
2008 Lewis Alice Wishart Episode 3.1 "Allegory of Love"
2016 Midsomer Murders Rachel Monkford Episode 18.4 "A Dying Art"

References

  1. ↑ Siobhan Murphy, 29 Oct 2013, Metro News, (review of Chamber Piece, ensemble production), Lyric’s Secret Theatre Show 3 is a mixed bag, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...Cara Horgan’s brutally ambitious prison governor wants nothing to go wrong with the execution of psychotic rapist and murderer Richard Sanger...."
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 April 20, 2015, London Theatre, London Theatre 1 News, Casting announced for THE MOTHER by Florian Zeller, Retrieved July 18, 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 ..."
  3. ↑ Charles Spencer, 03 Sep 2008, The Telegraph, (theater review), Updated Hedda is off-target, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...Cara Horgan is especially fine as a glamorous, bob-haired Hedda, ... using sex... like a shrimping net."
  4. ↑ Caroline Bishop (19 August 2009). Gambon Leads Bennett’s Habit of Art. Official London Theatre. Accessed July 2015.
  5. ↑ MATT WOLF, November 17, 2009, The New York Times, On the London Stage, a 'Little Voice' Grown Powerful, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...Cara Horgan and Leo Bill in "Pains of Youth."..."
  6. ↑ Leo Benedictus, 2 November 2009, The Guardian, 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?, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...Laura Elphinstone and Cara Horgan in Pains of Youth. ..."
  7. ↑ Dominic Cavendish, 31 May 2010, The Telegraph, 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. , Retrieved July 17, 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....)"
  8. ↑ Dominic Maxwell, May 31, 2010, The Times, Far Away at Bristol Old Vic, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...Far Away ... Cara Horgan (in photo)..."
  9. ↑ David Benedict, MAY 23, 2011, Variety, ‘The School for Scandal’, Retrieved July 18, 2015
  10. ↑ Michael Coveney, 18 June 2013, Whatsonstage
  11. ↑ Lucy Brooks, Culture Whisper Magazine, 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, , Retrieved July 18, 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. ..."
  12. ↑ 12 Jan 2015 – 28 Jan 2015, Culture Whisper Magazine, A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts, Tricycle Theatre, Retrieved July 18, 2015, "..Cara Horgan, likewise, appeared in The Libertine and My Week with Marilyn...."
  13. ↑ PAUL TAYLOR, 28 October 2013, The Independent, Theatre review: Secret Theatre - Show 3, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...monstrously ambitious prison governor (superb Cara Horgan) ..."
  14. ↑ Dan Hutton, 1 October 2013, Exeunt magazine,Freedom to Play: Q&A and Interviews, Retrieved July 18, 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...."
  15. ↑ Lyn Gardner, 29 May 2015, The Guardian, The Mother review – Gina McKee is ghost-like in haunting empty nest drama, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...the beautiful Elodie (Cara Horgan)...."
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The New York Times, Cara Horgan (filmography), Retrieved July 17, 2015, "...The Wedding Video; Law & Order: UK; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas; Jane Eyre; The Libertine; Afterlife..."
  17. 1 2 BBC, The Wedding Video, Retrieved July 18, 2015, "British comedy with Rufus Hound, Robert Webb and Lucy Punch.....Roxy...Cara Horgan.."
  18. ↑ September 03, 2008, NJ.com, NY Film Critics Series announces Motown fall lineup, Retrieved July 17, 2015, "....Starring: Vera Farmiga, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Cara Horgan...."
  19. ↑ MTV.com, Filmography, Retrieved July 18, 2015, "2008 ... Cara Horgan... Maria..."

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