Carey Mulligan

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born May 28, 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.​

Cast

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

(Self)

Pride & Prejudice

(Catherine "Kitty" Bennet)

Public Enemies

(Carol Slayman)

An Education

(Jenny Mellor)

My Boy Jack

(Elsie Kipling)

The Greatest

(Rose)

Slapper

(Susan)

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

(Winnie Gekko)

Never Let Me Go

(Kathy H.)

When Did You Last See Your Father?

(Rachel)

The Great Gatsby

(Daisy Buchanan)

Drive

(Irene)

Northanger Abbey

(Isabella Thorpe)

The Ballad of Wallis Island

(Nell Mortimer)

Shame

(Sissy)

Inside Llewyn Davis

(Jean)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again

(Amanda Seyfried)

Far from the Madding Crowd

(Bathsheba Everdene)

Suffragette

(Maud Watts)

Brothers

(Cassie Willis)

Maestro

(Felicia Montealegre)

Blood on Benefits

(Emma)

National Theatre Live: Skylight

(Kyra Hollis)

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

(Self)

Wildwood

(Alexandra (voice))

Saltburn

(Poor Dear Pamela)

Mudbound

(Laura McAllan)

Wildlife

(Jeanette Brinson)

An Uncivil War

(Gloria Steinem)

A Christmas Carol

(Belle (voice))

Promising Young Woman

(Cassandra)

The Dig

(Edith Pretty)

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration

(Self)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Spaceman

(Lenka Procházková)

She Said

(Megan Twohey)

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

(Emily Pritchard)

Doctor Who Confidential

Bleak House

(Ada Clare)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

(Self)

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

Trial & Retribution

(Emily Harrogate)

Live from Studio Five

(Self)

Doctor Who

(Sally Sparrow)

The Oscars

(Self)

The Daily Show

(Self)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

(Self)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

(Self)

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Waking the Dead

(Sister Bridgid)

Agatha Christie's Marple

(Violet Willett)

Collateral

(DI Kip Glaspie)

The Spoils of Babylon

(Lady Anne York)

The Graham Norton Show

(Self)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

(Self)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

(Self)

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

(Self)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

(Self - Guest)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(Self)

The View

(Self - Guest)

My Grandparents' War

(Self)

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

(Self)

Off Camera with Sam Jones

(Self)

Made in Hollywood

(Self)