Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3391
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Sharon Horgan works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Sharon Horgan appears in 11 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Sharon. Imagine Me & You is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for comedy, family, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ross Venokur, Tom Gormican, Stephen Daldry and others, Sharon Horgan helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Imagine Me & You (2006) as Beth · Dating Amber (2020) as Hannah · The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) as Olivia
Career snapshot
Ranked #3391 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
11
2005–2023
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Imagine Me & You
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
Imagine Me & You
Most frequent director
Ross Venokur
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ross Venokur
Most common genre
Comedy
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 37m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Game Night — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.8
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Imagine Me & You, Valiant.
Most productive era
2020s
8 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.61 film | — | 6.55 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.81 film |
| Comedy | 6.72 films | 6.81 film | 6.46 films |
| Crime | — | 6.81 film | 6.81 film |
| Romance | 7.61 film | — | 7.11 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2005Valiant
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Charles De Girl (voice).
Highest rated performance
2006Imagine Me & You
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2020Dating Amber
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Scarlett (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
11 of 11 films
as Hannah
Directed by Unknown
as Beth
Directed by Unknown
as Sarah
Directed by John Francis Daley
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Hannah
Dating Amber (2020)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hannah gives Sharon Horgan a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Beth
Imagine Me & You (2006)
Performance score7.4
Imagine Me & You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Beth is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Olivia
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Performance score7.2
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Olivia is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lisa
Military Wives (2020)
Performance score7.0
Military Wives asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lisa is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Hannah
Start here. Dating Amber is the clearest statement of what Sharon Horgan does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Sharon at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Imagine Me & You (2006)
Same director as Dating Amber, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Game Night (2018)
Keeps the comedy register of Imagine Me & You but asks for a colder reading of it.
Military Wives (2020)
A deliberate change of key after Game Night — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
A deliberate change of key after Military Wives — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Francis Daley
Director
1 film together
Notably Game Night
Coky Giedroyc
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Build a Girl
Stephen Daldry
Director
1 film together
Notably Together
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together
Notably The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Ross Venokur
Director
1 film together
Notably Rally Road Racers
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Tom Gormican
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentJohn Francis Daley
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Game NightRoss Venokur
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rally Road RacersStephen Daldry
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TogetherCoky Giedroyc
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Build a GirlSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Imagine Me & You
as Beth
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Dating Amber
as Hannah
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Imagine Me & You
as Beth
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
How to Build a Girl
as Jo March
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Dating Amber
as Hannah
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Sharon Horgan has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Game Night
as Sarah
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Game Night
as Sarah
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Greyhound of a Girl
as Scarlett (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Game Night
as Sarah
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
as Olivia
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
as Olivia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Valiant
as Charles De Girl (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
How to Build a Girl
as Jo March
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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