Carey Mulligan
Acting • Born 1985-05-28
Biography
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).
Filmography
71 credits
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie • 2007
Self
Pride & Prejudice
Movie • 2005
Kitty Bennet
Public Enemies
Movie • 2009
Carol Slayman
An Education
Movie • 2009
Jenny Mellor
My Boy Jack
Movie • 2007
Elsie Kipling
The Greatest
Movie • 2009
Rose
Slapper
Movie • 2008
Susan
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Movie • 2010
Winnie Gekko
Never Let Me Go
Movie • 2010
Kathy H.
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Movie • 2007
Rachel
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 2013
Daisy Buchanan
Drive
Movie • 2011
Irene
Northanger Abbey
Movie • 2007
Isabella Thorpe
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Movie • 2025
Nell Mortimer
Shame
Movie • 2011
Sissy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Movie • 2013
Jean
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
Movie • 2019
Amanda Seyfried
Far from the Madding Crowd
Movie • 2015
Bathsheba Everdene
Suffragette
Movie • 2015
Maud Watts
Brothers
Movie • 2009
Cassie Willis
Maestro
Movie • 2023
Felicia Montealegre
Blood on Benefits
Movie • 2007
Emma
National Theatre Live: Skylight
Movie • 2014
Kyra Hollis
Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
Movie • 2014
Self
Wildwood
Movie • 2026
Alexandra (voice)
Saltburn
Movie • 2023
Poor Dear Pamela
Mudbound
Movie • 2017
Laura McAllan
Wildlife
Movie • 2018
Jeanette Brinson
An Uncivil War
Movie
Gloria Steinem
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 2020
Belle (voice)
Promising Young Woman
Movie • 2020
Cassandra
The Dig
Movie • 2021
Edith Pretty
Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Movie • 2020
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Movie • 2021
Spaceman
Movie • 2024
Lenka Procházková
She Said
Movie • 2022
Megan Twohey
Narnia
Movie • 2026
Mabel Kirke
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV • 2006
Emily Pritchard
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Bleak House
TV • 2005
Ada Clare
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
Emily Harrogate
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Sally Sparrow
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Sister Bridgid
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Violet Willett
Collateral
TV • 2018
DI Kip Glaspie
The Spoils of Babylon
TV • 2014
Lady Anne York
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
My Grandparents' War
TV • 2019
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
Made in Hollywood
TV • 2005
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
BEEF
TV • 2023
Lindsay
Elle Style Awards
TV • 1997
Self - Winner