Sharon Horgan shares throwback headshot from before she was famous
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Sharon Horgan shares throwback headshot from before she was famous

Irish actress and writer Sharon Horgan has been taking fans on a trip down memory lane after sharing a photograph of her very first headshot, taken way back in 1991.

Horgan is perhaps best known for her work on hit shows like Pulling and, more recently, Catastrophe, but back then she was just another Irish upstart looking to make a name for herself in London.

Taking to Instagram, the 47-year-old star gave fans an insight into the trials and tribulations that came before she hit the big time.

Commenting alongside the youthful snap, Horgan joked "I'd obviously worked out that what the industry was looking for in a young Irish actress was multiple piercings and Vulcanesque eyebrows."

"Worth noting that it took ten years from when this photo was taken to get my first paid job in TV. TEN YEARS. By the time I got these photos done I had been working in Kilburn Job centre for two years so things were really going according to plan in terms of the big dream."

"I look at old photos of me and I look at me now with my scars and rosacea and wrinkles and hair loss and I think the only positive is I can literally see in my eyes how stupid I was back then," she added.

Though she worked in TV prior to it, Horgan's first credited TV appearances came in 2002, when she appeared in the short-lived Stephen Fry sitcom, The State We're In and the darkly comedic animated series Monkey Dust a year later, which she also contributed material to.

These days, Horgan is busy running her own production company Merman and is the co-writer of the critically acclaimed series Motherland alongside Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan and Holly Walsh.

She's also created her very own show in the US, Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church, which is now in its second series.

It's been a long road, but Horgan is now living the dream.