Carey Mulligan 1985 40
Carey Mulligan 1985 40
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).
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2025 Wildwood as Alexandra (voice)
2025 An Uncivil War as Gloria Steinem
2025 The Ballad of Wallis Island as Nell Mortimer Executive Producer
2024 Spaceman as Lenka Procházková
2023 Maestro as Felicia Montealegre
2023 Saltburn as Poor Dear Pamela
2022 She Said as Megan Twohey
2021 Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 The Dig as Edith Pretty
2020 Promising Young Woman as Cassandra Executive Producer
2020 A Christmas Carol as Belle (voice)
2020 Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration as Self
2019 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again as Amanda Seyfried
2018 Wildlife as Jeanette Brinson
2017 Mudbound as Laura McAllan
2015 Suffragette as Maud Watts
2015 Far from the Madding Crowd as Bathsheba Everdene
2014 National Theatre Live: Skylight as Kyra Hollis
2014 Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' as Self
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis as Jean
2013 The Great Gatsby as Daisy Buchanan
2011 Shame as Sissy
2011 Drive as Irene
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps as Winnie Gekko
2010 Never Let Me Go as Kathy H.
2009 Brothers as Cassie Willis
2009 An Education as Jenny Mellor
2009 Public Enemies as Carol Slayman
2009 The Greatest as Rose
2008 Slapper as Susan
2007 My Boy Jack as Elsie Kipling
2007 Northanger Abbey as Isabella Thorpe
2007 When Did You Last See Your Father? as Rachel
2007 Blood on Benefits as Emma
2007 The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2005 Pride & Prejudice as Catherine "Kitty" Bennet