Janine Harouni

Janine Harouni is a UKbased American standup comedian and actress Harouni was raised in Staten Island New York City by a LebaneseAmerican 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 years Edinburgh Comedy Awards She returned to the Fringe in 2023 performing Manoushe while heavily pregnant and was nominated for the main Edinburgh Comedy Award Harouni played Thalia in the ITV show Buffering from 20212023 and appeared as Carla Diaz in The Batman 2022