Carey Mulligan
3.2Acting

Carey Mulligan

May 28, 1985 - Westminster, London, England, UK

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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Movie2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasSelf
Movie2005Pride & PrejudiceKitty Bennet
Movie2009Public EnemiesCarol Slayman
Movie2009An EducationJenny Mellor
Movie2007My Boy JackElsie Kipling
Movie2009The GreatestRose
Movie2008SlapperSusan
Movie2010Wall Street: Money Never SleepsWinnie Gekko
Movie2010Never Let Me GoKathy H.
Movie2007When Did You Last See Your Father?Rachel
Movie2013The Great GatsbyDaisy Buchanan
Movie2011DriveIrene
Movie2007Northanger AbbeyIsabella Thorpe
Movie2025The Ballad of Wallis IslandNell Mortimer
Movie2011ShameSissy
Movie2013Inside Llewyn DavisJean
Movie2019Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet AgainAmanda Seyfried
Movie2015Far from the Madding CrowdBathsheba Everdene
Movie2015SuffragetteMaud Watts
Movie2009BrothersCassie Willis
Movie2023MaestroFelicia Montealegre
Movie2007Blood on BenefitsEmma
Movie2014National Theatre Live: SkylightKyra Hollis
Movie2014Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'Self
MovieN/AWildwoodAlexandra (voice)
Movie2023SaltburnPoor Dear Pamela
Movie2017MudboundLaura McAllan
Movie2018WildlifeJeanette Brinson
MovieN/AAn Uncivil WarGloria Steinem
Movie2020A Christmas CarolBelle (voice)
Movie2020Promising Young WomanCassandra
Movie2021The DigEdith Pretty
Movie2020Miranda: My Such Fun CelebrationSelf
Movie2021Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Movie2024SpacemanLenka Procházková
Movie2022She SaidMegan Twohey
Movie2026NarniaMabel Kirke
Movie2022Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning ActSelf (archive footage)
Movie2007Doctor Who: BlinkSally Sparrow
TV Show2006The Amazing Mrs PritchardEmily Pritchard6
TV Show2005Doctor Who Confidential1
TV Show2005Bleak HouseAda Clare15
TV Show2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf1
TV Show1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host1
TV Show1997Trial & RetributionEmily Harrogate2
TV Show2009Live from Studio FiveSelf1
TV Show2005Doctor WhoSally Sparrow1
TV Show1953The OscarsSelf2
TV Show1996The Daily ShowSelf1
TV Show2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf2
TV Show2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf2
TV Show1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter1
TV Show2001Waking the DeadSister Bridgid2
TV Show2004Agatha Christie's MarpleViolet Willett1
TV Show2018CollateralDI Kip Glaspie4
TV Show2014The Spoils of BabylonLady Anne York6
TV Show2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf7
TV Show2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self1
TV Show2014Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsSelf4
TV Show2023Off Script with The Hollywood ReporterSelf1
TV Show2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest1
TV Show2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf1
TV Show1997The ViewSelf - Guest1
TV Show2019My Grandparents' WarSelf1
TV Show2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf1
TV Show2014Off Camera with Sam JonesSelf1
TV Show2005Made in HollywoodSelf1
TV Show1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee1
TV Show2006The One ShowSelf1

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Movie2020Promising Young WomanExecutive ProducerProduction
Movie2025The Ballad of Wallis IslandExecutive ProducerProduction