Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 3, 1988
Place of Birth:
Staten Island, New York, USA
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Janine Harouni
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Thin Skinned | Jess Keaton |
| 2022 | The People We Hate at the Wedding | Young Woman at Airport |
| 2022 | The Batman | Carla |
| 2021 | Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) | Self |
| 2018 | Beast | American Mum |
| 2018 | Colette | Jeanne De Caillavet |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | The Franchise | Meg Coker |
| 2021 | Buffering | Thalia |
| 2021 | Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains | Self |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Funeral Parlour Receptionist |
| 2017 | The Russell Howard Hour | Self |
| 2013 | The Last Leg | Self |
| 2004 | Live at the Apollo | Self |