English actress Carey Mulligan made her stage debut in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks (2004) at the Royal Court Theatre. The following year she made her television debut in the BBC One series Bleak House (2005), an adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name. She expanded to films with a supporting role in the Joe Wright-directed period romance Pride and Prejudice (2005), an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel of the same name. She then came to prominence playing an English schoolgirl in the coming of age film An Education (2009), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Mulligan continued to garner praise for such films as the dystopian drama Never Let Me Go (2010), the action film Drive (2011), the psychological drama Shame (2011), the dark musical Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), the romantic drama Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), the historical drama Mudbound (2017), the coming of age film Wildlife (2018), and the biographical drama She Said (2021). She also played Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby (2013), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, which ranks as her highest-grossing release. She received further Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for playing a vengeful woman in the dark comedy Promising Young Woman (2020) and Felicia Montealegre in the biographical drama Maestro (2023).
On stage, she played Nina in the revival of Anton Chekov's The Seagull both on the West End in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008. For her role in the revival of the David Hare play Skylight she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She has also acted off Broadway in the Ingmar Bergman adaptation Through a Glass Darkly (2011) and the solo show Girls & Boys (2018).
Acting credits Film Year Title Role Notes 2005Pride & Prejudice Kitty Bennet 2007Blood on Benefits Emma Short film And When Did You Last See Your Father? Rachel 2008 Slapper Susan Short film 2009 Rose Brothers Cassie Willis Public Enemies Carol Slayman An Education Jenny Mellor 2010Never Let Me Go Kathy H Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Winnie Gekko 2011Drive Irene Shame Sissy Sullivan 2013The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Inside Llewyn Davis Jean Berkey 2015Far from the Madding Crowd Bathsheba Everdene Suffragette Maud Watts 2017Mudbound Laura McAllan 2018Wildlife Jeanette Brinson 2020Promising Young Woman Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas Also executive producer A Christmas Carol Belle (voice) 2021 The Dig Edith Pretty 2022 She Said Megan Twohey 2023Saltburn Poor Dear Pamela Maestro Felicia Montealegre 2024Spaceman Lenka Procházka 2025The Ballad of Wallis Island Nell Mortimer Also executive producer 2026 Alexandra (voice) 2027 Mabel Kirke Post-production Mrs. Greenwood Filming +Key Denotes productions that have not yet been released
Television Year Title Role Notes 2005Bleak House Ada Clare Miniseries (15 episodes) 2006 Emily Pritchard 6 episodes Agatha Christie's Marple Violet Willett Episode: "The Sittaford Mystery" Trial & Retribution Emily Harrogate 2 episodes 2007Waking the Dead Sister Bridgid Northanger Abbey Isabella Thorpe Television film My Boy Jack Elsie Kipling Doctor Who Sally Sparrow Episode: "Blink" 2014 The Spoils of Babylon Lady Anne York (voice) 2 episodes 2015 The Walker Sunny 8 episodes 2018 Collateral DI Kip Glaspie Miniseries (4 episodes) 2019 My Grandparents' War Herself Episode: "Episode 4" 2021 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Carey Mulligan/Kid Cudi" 2026 Beef Lindsay Crane-Martín Main role (season 2)
Stage Year Title Role Venue 2004 Hermia Royal Court Theatre, London 2005–06The Hypochondriac Angelique Almeida Theatre, London 2007The SeagullNina Zarechnaya Royal Court Theatre, London 2008 Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway 2011 Through a Glass Darkly Karin Atlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway 2014SkylightKyra Hollis Wyndham's Theatre, West End 2015 Golden Theatre, Broadway 2018Girls & Boys Performer Royal Court Theatre, London Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway
Podcast Year Title Role Notes 2022 I Hear Fear Narrator 2023 The Foxes of Hydesville Leah Fox Also executive producer
Discography Year Title Album 2010 "Write About Love" (Belle and Sebastian featuring Carey Mulligan) Write About Love 2011 "Theme from New York, New York" Shame 2013 "Five Hundred Miles" (with Justin Timberlake and Stark Sands) Inside Llewyn Davis 2014 "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby" (with Gillian Welch and Rhiannon Giddens) Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis 2015 "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (solo or with Michael Sheen) Far from the Madding Crowd 2023 "Façade: Sir Beelzebub" (with Zachary Booth) Maestro 2025 "Morning Evening" The Ballad of Wallis Island (with Tom Basden as McGwyer Mortimer) "Lover, Please Stay" "Angels" "Give Your Love" "Slip Away" "Raspberry Fair" "Summer's Here" "Sweetheart" "Awake" "Inside a Whale" "Our Love" "Sky Child" "The Sea Silver" "Into the Night" "The Ballad of Wallis Island"
See also List of awards and nominations received by Carey Mulligan
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