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Sharon Horgan (born 4 April 1970) is an Irish actress, writer and comedian.
Horgan was born in London and moved to Dublin at age seven. She grew up in Bellewstown, County Meath, Ireland. She went to school in the Sacred Heart Secondary School in Drogheda. Later, she took an English degree at Brunel University. She is one of five siblings and sister of Ireland rugby international Shane Horgan.
Horgan began her comedy career when she jointly won the BBC New Comedy award for sketch-writing in 2001 with her writing partner Dennis Kelly. She has written and appeared in shows such as The Pilot Show and the first series of The Friday Night Project while her acting credits include Absolute Power, Broken News and Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive. She appeared in the feature film Imagine Me and You and provided a voice in the animated film Valiant. She has written for many comedy shows, including the acclaimed animated sketch show Monkey Dust. Horgan's own BBC comedy show, Pulling, which she co-wrote with Dennis Kelly, was first broadcast in 2006 and was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Sitcom.Angelo's, a six-part sitcom written by and starring Horgan, was broadcast on Five in late 2007. The second series of Pulling aired on BBC Three in March 2008. Horgan won the award for Best Television Comedy Actress at the British Comedy Awards on 6 December 2008. She starred in Channel 4's Free Agents – originally a pilot for Comedy Showcase in 2007 – and then a six-episode series in 2009.
Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer; however, most of her work during this period was in theatre. Not generally known as a singer, she drew strong reviews for her leading role in the musical Cabaret in 1968.
During the next two decades, she established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series A Fine Romance from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series As Time Goes By.
Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in GoldenEye (1995), a role she has played in each James Bond film since. She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown (1997), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love (1998), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2001).
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