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
The Franchise
Meg Coker · (1 episode)
2024
Thin Skinned
Jess Keaton
2023
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Young Woman at Airport
2022
The Batman
Carla
2022
Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
Self
2021
Buffering
Thalia · (6 episodes)
2021
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
Self · (1 episode)
2021
Colette
Jeanne De Caillavet
2018
Beast
American Mum
2018
Patrick Melrose
Funeral Parlour Receptionist · (1 episode)
2018
The Russell Howard Hour
Self · (1 episode)
2017
The Last Leg
Self · (1 episode)
2013
Live at the Apollo
Self · (1 episode)
2004