Janine Harouni

Known for ActingBorn 1988-01-03 (age 38)Staten Island, New York, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Beast

The Russell Howard Hour

Bob's Burgers

The Batman

Patrick Melrose

Live at the Apollo

Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains

Colette

The Franchise

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Mock the Week

Celebrity Mastermind

Buffering

The Last Leg

The Roast of Have A Word 3

Thin Skinned

Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)