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Janine Harouni

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).

Filmography
The Roast of Have A Word 3 poster
The Roast of Have A Word 3
2025
Thin Skinned poster
Thin Skinned
2023 • Jess Keaton
The People We Hate at the Wedding poster
The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022 • Young Woman at Airport
The Batman poster
The Batman
2022 • Carla
Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated) poster
Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
2021 • Self
Colette poster
Colette
2018 • Jeanne De Caillavet
Beast poster
Beast
2018 • American Mum