Carey Mulligan

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Carey Mulligan

Mulligan in September 2009
Born Carey Hannah Mulligan
28 May 1985 (1985-05-28) (age 26)
Westminster, London, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 2005–present

Carey Hannah Mulligan[1] (born 28 May 1985)[2] 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 such dramatic films as The Greatest, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Drive and Shame.

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[edit] Early life

Mulligan was born in Westminster, London, England.[3] Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, and her mother, Nano (née Booth), a college lecturer, came from Llandeilo in West Wales.[1][3][4] Her paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland.[5] Mulligan has one sibling, an elder brother.[3][4] At the age of 3, she moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels. Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for 8 years.[6] She was "quite shy" during her childhood[3] and a tomboy until the age of 15.[7] She was also "quite straight-laced" and very academic until age 14, having then become more interested in acting.[8]

Her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of The King and I[3] (she would later participate in plays at her school) and attending Broadway plays as a teen.[9] Before acting professionally, she had once secretly applied to and been rejected by three drama schools specified on her UCAS application form.[3][7] After failing an audition, the rejections made her question whether to pursue an acting career and go through what she called a "confusing time". Aside from rejection, she had also questioned being an actress due to her parents' disapproval of pursuing a job in entertainment. They insisted she attend university and believed Mulligan's desire would wear off.[9] Around this time, she had a brief job as a barmaid at a local pub.[7] She later said that those negative experiences made her know how much she wanted to act.[10]

[edit] Career

[edit] 2005 – 2010

In 2004, at the age of 18, Mulligan began her acting career by winning the role of Kitty Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 period piece film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. She received the role with help from her school's headmistress, after Mulligan had written to her explaining that she did not want to go to university and asking for help in getting in touch with actor Julian Fellowes, who had spoken at Mulligan's school. After she met Fellowes, he introduced her to a casting agent who was looking to cast an unknown in the film.[7] Later that year, she appeared in a recurring role in the BAFTA award-winning BBC adaption of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, as orphan Ada Clare[11] and onstage in The Hypochondriac.[12] Among her 2007 projects were My Boy Jack, starring Daniel Radcliffe that features her in a supporting role. Mulligan identified with her role Elsie, who vociferously opposes her brother going to war.[11] She earned a Constellation Award for playing the main character Sally Sparrow in an episode of Doctor Who.[13] She rounded out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed revival of The Seagull, in which she played Nina to Kristin Scott Thomas' Arkadina and Chiwetel Ejiofor's Trigorin. The Daily Telegraph said her performance was "quite extraordinarily radiating'" and The Observer called her "almost unbearably affecting."[11] While in the middle of the production, she had to have an appendectomy, preventing her from being able to perform for a week.[11] For her debut Broadway performance in the 2008 American transfer of The Seagull, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, but lost to Angela Lansbury.[14]

Mulligan with co-star Peter Sarsgaard at a premiere for An Education in October 2009

At 22, she was cast in her first leading role as 16 year old Jenny in the coming-of-age 2009 release drama An Education,[15] which got rave reviews and commissioned $26 million against a $7.5 million budget at the box office.[16] She received critical acclaim for her performance, as the press began referring to her as an "It girl".[17] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly and Todd McCarthy of Variety both compared her performance to that of Audrey Hepburn.[15][18] Rolling Stone's Peter Travers described her as having given a "sensational, starmaking performance,"[19] while Claudia Puig of USA Today felt that Mulligan had one of the year's best performances,[20] and Toby Young of The Times felt she anchored the film.[21] Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw concluded that she gave a "wonderful performance."[22] For her work, she garnered Golden Globe, Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, as well as receiving a British Academy Film Award. Mulligan was a recipient of the Shooting Stars Award from the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival[23] and received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, which is voted on by the British public.[24]

She next starred in The Greatest (2010) as the pregnant girlfriend of a boy who dies; her involvement with the project helped it "tremendously", according to the director.[25] It opened to mostly indifferent reviews, with Ty Burr of the Boston Globe criticising it for being "grueling and gently contrived", but was more positive in his assessment of Mulligan.[26] After being selected to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[27] she won a British Independent Award for Never Let Me Go, an adaption of the 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, which she starred in and narrated and was released in September 2010 - competing against her other project, the Oliver Stone-directed film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.[24] The latter, a sequel to the 1987 movie, is about a new story of greed and power. Screened out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival,[28] it was her first major studio project.[29] Later that year she also provided vocals for the song "Write About Love" by Belle & Sebastian.[30]

[edit] 2011 onward

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,[31] acting as the central character, a mentally unstable woman, to glowing praise from reviewers.[32] 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.[33] Mulligan began filming Steve McQueen's sex-addiction drama Shame alongside Michael Fassbender in New York in January 2011.[34] Both films were shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, and received vast critical acclaim. Away from acting, Mulligan will be a co-chairmen alongside Anna Wintour for the 2012 Met Ball Gala.[35] 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.[36]

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.[37] Other upcoming projects for her include the lead roles in an adaptation of My Fair Lady and On Chesil Beach,[38] as well as a part in the science fiction project titled, Outback, developed by GK Films.[39]

[edit] Personal life

Mulligan dated American actor and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps co-star Shia LaBeouf from August 2009 to October 2010.[40][41] In August 2011, she became engaged to Mumford & Sons lead singer Marcus Mumford.[42]

Mulligan took part in the Safe Project by being photographed in the safest places for a series to raise awareness of sex trafficking.[43] She donated the Vionnet gown she wore at the 2010 BAFTAs to the Curiosity Shop, which sells its donations to raise money for Oxfam.[44]

[edit] Filmography

Film and television
Year Title Role Notes
2005 Pride & Prejudice Kitty Bennet
2005 Bleak House Ada Clare TV, 15 episodes
2006 Amazing Mrs Pritchard, TheThe Amazing Mrs Pritchard Emily Pritchard TV, 6 episodes
2006–2007 Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father Emily Harrogate 2 episodes
2006 Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery Violet Willett
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? Rachel
2007 Waking the Dead Sister Bridgid TV, 2 episodes
2007 Doctor Who Sally Sparrow TV, 1 episode: "Blink"
Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a Science Fiction Television Episode
2007 My Boy Jack Elsie Kipling
2007 Northanger Abbey Isabella Thorpe
2009 Public Enemies Carole
2009 An Education Jenny BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Hollywood Breakthrough Award for Actress of the Year
London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actress of the Year
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Newcomer
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—London Critics Circle Film Award for Actress of the Year
Nominated—Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2009 Brothers Cassie Willis
2009 Greatest, TheThe Greatest Rose
2010 Never Let Me Go Kathy British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Performance
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Winnie Gekko Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Performance
2011 Drive Irene Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress
Pending—London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actress of the Year
Pending—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
2011 Shame Sissy Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress
Pending—London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actress of the Year
Pending—Evening Standard Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
Nominated—Village Voice Film Poll for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
2012 Great Gatsby, TheThe Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Filming
Stage
Year Title Role Notes
2005-2006 Hypochondriac, TheThe Hypochondriac Daisy Almeida Theatre
2007 Seagull, TheThe Seagull Nina Royal Court Theatre
2008 Seagull, TheThe Seagull Nina Broadway
2011 Through a Glass Darkly Atlantic Theater Company

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