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Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan

Birthday: 1985-05-28 | Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in the 2004 Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre. Her film debut came with a supporting role in the romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005) and the television film Northanger Abbey (2007). She also played Sally Sparrow in the Doctor Who episode "Blink". Mulligan made her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull, which earned her an Ian Charleson Commendation Award. Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age drama film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and gained her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued as an established actor, with roles in the dystopian romance Never Let Me Go (2010), action drama Drive (2011), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, erotic drama Shame (2011), romantic drama The Great Gatsby (2013), and the black comedy-drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). In 2015, Mulligan was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight. In 2018, she starred in the Netflix limited series Collateral and Paul Dano's acclaimed drama film Wildlife. For her portrayal of a vigilante in the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), Mulligan received widespread praise and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.​

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
The Dig

as    Edith Pretty

2020
A Christmas Carol

as    Belle (voice)

2020
Promising Young Woman

as    Cassandra

2018
Collateral

as    DI Kip Glaspie

2018
Wildlife

as    Jeanette Brinson

2017
Mudbound

as    Laura McAllan

2015
Far from the Madding Crowd

as    Bathsheba Everdene

2015
Suffragette

as    Maud Watts

2014
National Theatre Live: Skylight

as    Kyra Hollis

2014
The Spoils of Babylon

as    Lady Anne York

2014
The Spoils of Babylon

as    Lady Anne York

2014
2013
The Great Gatsby

as    Daisy Buchanan

2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

as    Jean

2011
Drive

as    Irene

2011
Shame

as    Sissy

2010
Never Let Me Go

as    Kathy H.

2010
The Greatest

as    Rose

2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

as    Winnie Gekko

2009
Brothers

as    Cassie Willis

2007
My Boy Jack

as    Elsie Kipling

2007
Northanger Abbey

as    Isabella Thorpe

2007
2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

as    Emily Pritchard

2005
Bleak House

as    Ada Clare