Janine Harouni

Acting

Janine Harouni

Born 1988-01-03 · 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).

Acting credits

The Batman poster
7.7

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

The Batman

2022

Colette poster
6.9

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Colette

2018

The People We Hate at the Wedding poster
6.3

A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.

The People We Hate at the Wedding

2022

Beast poster
9.0

A gothic fairytale following three generations of women struggling with the aftermath of a divorce.

Beast

2018

The Roast of Have A Word 3 poster
NR

The most brutal jokes you've ever heard, performed in front of a crowd in Glasgow that was baying for blood. Let the roasting commence.

The Roast of Have A Word 3

2025

Thin Skinned poster
NR

Two hidden camera pranksters infiltrate a funeral home, unaware that the mortician they've targeted is a demented lunatic.

Thin Skinned

2023

Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) poster
NR

Janine's father is a lifelong New Yorker and son of Middle-Eastern immigrants. He's also an avid Donald Trump supporter. Attempting to reconcile those things makes for one tense Sunday dinner ​ Catch multi-award winning newcomer Janine Harouni in her critically-acclaimed debut show about standing up for what you believe in, even if you have to do it really nicely.

Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)

2021