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Carey Mulligan
Actor, ProducerBorn May 28, 1985 (39 years)
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2024.
Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in Kevin Elyot's play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by diverse roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005), the television film Northanger Abbey (2007), and guest starring in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" (2007). She made her Broadway debut in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2008). Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her career progressed with roles in Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Suffragette (2015), Mudbound (2017), Wildlife (2018), and She Said (2022), and she had her highest-grossing release in the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013). For her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015), she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She received further Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of a vigilante in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro (2023).
Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in Kevin Elyot's play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. She made her film debut with a supporting role in Joe Wright's romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by diverse roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005), the television film Northanger Abbey (2007), and guest starring in the Doctor Who episode "Blink" (2007). She made her Broadway debut in the revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (2008). Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her career progressed with roles in Never Let Me Go (2010), Drive (2011), Shame (2011), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Suffragette (2015), Mudbound (2017), Wildlife (2018), and She Said (2022), and she had her highest-grossing release in the period drama The Great Gatsby (2013). For her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight (2015), she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She received further Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of a vigilante in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro (2023).
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Filmography
| 2025 | Wildwood · as Alexandra (voice) |
| 2025 | The Ballad of Wallis Island · as Nell Mortimer |
| 2024 | Spaceman · as Lenka Procházková |
| 2023 | Maestro · as Felicia Montealegre |
| 2023 | Saltburn · as Poor Dear Pamela |
| 2023 | BEEF (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2022 | She Said · as Megan Twohey |
| 2021 | The Dig · as Edith Pretty |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman · as Cassandra |
| 2020 | A Christmas Carol · as Belle (voice) |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Collateral (TV Series) · as Di Kip Glaspie |
| 2017 | Mudbound · as Laura Mcallan |
| 2015 | Suffragette · as Maud Watts |
| 2015 | The Walker (TV Series) · as Sunny |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd · as Bathsheba Everdene |
| 2014 | Skylight · as Kyra Hollis |
| 2014 | The Spoils of Babylon (TV Series) · as Lady Anne York |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis · as Jean |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby · as Daisy Buchanan |
| 2012 | The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who · as Sally Sparrow |
| 2011 | Shame · as Sissy |
| 2011 | Drive · as Irene |
| 2010 | Never Let Me Go · as Kathy H. |
| 2010 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps · as Winnie Gekko |
| 2009 | Doctor Who: A Ghost Story for Christmas · as Sally Sparrow |
| 2009 | Brothers · as Cassie Willis |
| 2009 | The Greatest · as Rose |
| 2009 | An Education · as Jenny Mellor |
| 2009 | Public Enemies · as Carol Slayman |
| 2007 | My Boy Jack · as Elsie Kipling |
| 2007 | When Did You Last See Your Father? · as Rachel |
| 2007 | Northanger Abbey · as Isabella Thorpe |
| 2006 | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (TV Series) · as Emily Pritchard |
| 2006 | Pride & Prejudice: The Life and Times of Jane Austen · as Kitty Bennet |
| 2005 | Bleak House (TV Series) · as Ada Clare |
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice · as Catherine "kitty" Bennet |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Sally Sparrow |
| 2005 | Doctor Who Confidential (TV Series) |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Violet Willett |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead (TV Series) · as Sister Bridgid |
| 1997 | Trial & Retribution (TV Series) · as Emily Harrogate |