Carey Hannah Mulligan
,
Westminster, London, England
Birthday
1985-05-28
Occupation
Actress
Spouse(s)
Marcus Mumford (m. 2012)
Years Active
2004–present
Biography
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She had roles in numerous British programmes and, in 2007, made her Broadway debut in The Seagull to critical acclaim.
In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for playing the lead role of Jenny in An Education, winning a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and also being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her performance. She went on to star in dramatic films such as The Greatest, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Drive and Shame.
Mulligan returned to the stage in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadway play Through a Glass, Darkly from May 13 to July 3, 2011, acting as the central character, a mentally unstable woman, to glowing praise from reviewers. Ben Brantley, theater critic for The New York Times, wrote that Mulligan's performance was "acting of the highest order"; he also described her as "extraordinary" and "one of the finest actresses of her generation." Script adjustments were made to accommodate Mulligan as Irene, who was originally written as a Latina woman in her late twenties, in the 2011 neo-noir thriller movie Drive, which also starred Ryan Gosling. Mulligan began filming Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame alongside Michael Fassbender in New York in January 2011. Both films were shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and received vast critical acclaim. Of her performance in Shame, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote, "Mulligan is in every way sensational." Away from acting, Mulligan will be a co-chairmen alongside Anna Wintour for the 2012 Met Ball Gala. She will also star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the film adaption of The Great Gatsby, playing the role of the superficial Daisy Buchanan; its release date is set for Christmas 2012.
Additionally, the actress will reunite with Drive filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn for I Walk With the Dead, play the female lead in the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, and star in Spike Jonze's next film written by Charlie Kaufman. Other upcoming projects for her include the lead roles in an adaptation of My Fair Lady and On Chesil Beach, as well as a part in the science fiction project titled, Outback, developed by GK Films.
Mulligan will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd for director Thomas Vinterberg and Fox Searchlight. She is also set to star in The Fury for director Sarah Gravron and screenwriter Abi Morgan, who previously worked with Mulligan on Shame.
Opening in June 2014, Mulligan starred in the revival of the play Skylight with Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard, directed by Stephen Daldry, at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. The play was broadcast live (or near live) to cinema audiences via NT Live on 17 July 2014. Mulligan and Nighy will revive their roles on Broadway when the play transfers in the Spring of 2015.
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