Person
Janine Harouni
Acting · Born 1988-01-03 · Staten Island, New York, USA
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
Bob's Burgers
Dania (voice)
Celebrity Mastermind
Self - Contestant
The Batman
Carla
The Last Leg
Self
Live at the Apollo
Self
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
Patrick Melrose
Funeral Parlour Receptionist
The Franchise
Meg Coker
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
Self
Colette
Jeanne De Caillavet
Filmography
- 2026Mock the WeekSelf
- 2025The Roast of Have A Word 3
- 2024The FranchiseMeg Coker
- 2023Thin SkinnedJess Keaton
- 2022The People We Hate at the WeddingYoung Woman at Airport
- 2022The BatmanCarla
- 2021Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)Self
- 2021BufferingThalia
- 2021Rhod Gilbert's Growing PainsSelf
- 2018ColetteJeanne De Caillavet
- 2018BeastAmerican Mum
- 2018Patrick MelroseFuneral Parlour Receptionist
- 2017The Russell Howard HourSelf
- 2013The Last LegSelf
- 2011Bob's BurgersDania (voice)
- 2004Live at the ApolloSelf
- 2003Celebrity MastermindSelf - Contestant
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