About Janine Harouni
Born 1988. Janine Harouni is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Janine Harouni (born 3 January 1988) is a UK-based American stand-up comedian and actress.
Early life Harouni was raised in Staten Island, New York City by a Lebanese-American father, while her mother is predominantly of Italian and Irish descent.
In 2009, Harouni was involved in a car accident in Manhattan. The car she and her friends were in pulled up on the hard shoulder after a puncture and another car crashed into them at 70mph. Harouni broke her pelvis, femur, legs, and wrists. Her sciatic nerve was crushed which paralysed her right leg for nearly three years. She moved to London in 2012.
Career Stand-up comedy 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.
Acting Harouni played Thalia in the ITV show Buffering from 2021–2023, and appeared as Carla Diaz in The Batman (2022).
Personal life She is married to Irish comedian and filmmaker Andrew Nolan.
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Who is Janine Harouni?
American comedian and actress
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Janine Harouni was born on 3 January 1988 in Staten Island.
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Janine Harouni is a stand-up comedian and actor.
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Janine Harouni is American.
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