Carey Mulligan

Cast

Born

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

Birth name

Carey Hannah Mulligan

“The toughest part of acting is never a single thing. It’s more like a whole character. I find film really difficult – trying to make it feel like a consistent character when you’re filming everything out of order.” British actress winner of multiple awards including a British Academy Film Award, three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and a Tony Award. She made her professional acting debut in the theater with the play Forty Winks (2004) and her film debut in 2005 with the romantic drama Pride and Prejudice (2005) based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen. She then participated in several British television programs such as Bleak House (2005), and Abbey (2007), and as a special guest in the episode “Blink” of Doctor Who (2007). She rose to fame with her role in An Education (2009) for which she won a BAFTA award for Best Actress and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Since then her career has not stopped progressing, participating in projects such as 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 her highest-grossing release The Great Gatsby (2013). She received other Oscar nominations for her portrayals of a vigilante in the black comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biopic Maestro (2023).