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Carey Mulligan
A young woman with short brown-reddish hair wearing a sleeve-less black dress. She is smiling, and holding a microphone with her right hand.
Mulligan during the screening of An Education at the Ryerson Theatre on 25 September 2009.
Born
Carey Hannah Mulligan

(1985-05-28) 28 May 1985 (age 38)
Westminster, London, England
OccupationActress
Years active2004–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). Following Pride & Prejudice, she had television roles in the BBC Charles Dickens adaptation Bleak House (2005) and the following year she appeared in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard. In 2007, she began with roles in the one-off television dramas My Boy Jack and Northanger Abbey. The same year, she 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. Additionally, Mulligan was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Following her breakthrough role as Jenny, she appeared in the dramatic films Brothers and The Greatest. Her 2010 films included Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the sequel to the 1987 film, and Never Let Me Go.

Early life and career beginnings

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 great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland.[5] Mulligan has one sibling; an elder brother.[3][4] At the age of three, Mulligan moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels.[3][6] Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for eight years.[7] Mulligan stated that during her childhood she was "quite shy",[3] and that, until the age of fifteen, she had been a tomboy.[6] She also acknowledged that she was "quite straight-laced" during her childhood and that she was very academic until she was fourteen, having then become more interested in acting.[8] Mulligan said her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of The King and I[3] and would later participate in many plays at her school. Since age fourteen, her mother would take her to Broadway plays in New York, which made her develop an interest in theatre and eventually led to her accepting a role in the Broadway play The Seagull.[9]

Before she began acting professionally, she had once secretly applied to and been rejected by three drama schools specified on her UCAS application form.[3][6] After failing yet another audition, the rejections made Mulligan question whether to pursue an acting career, and she went through what she called a "confusing time". Aside from rejection, she had also questioned an acting career due to her parents disapproval of pursuing a career in entertainment, remarking that her parents were insisting she attend university, preferably the University of Reading in England, believing that Mulligan's desire would wear off.[9] Around this time, she had a brief job as a barmaid at a local pub.[6] In 2009, Mulligan stated that those negative experiences had a positive effect on her because it made her "realize just how much" she wanted to act.[10] In 2009, she said that when she was filming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in New York she began considering going to acting school, preferably Juilliard in New York, but that the decision was still pending.[3] In November of the same year, Mulligan said that her grandmother suffers from Alzheimer's and had been a strong influence on her, and that if she ever does go to university, she would choose to study psychology to have a greater understanding of the disease.[9]

Career

In 2004, at the age of eighteen, Mulligan began her acting career by winning the role of Kitty Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, the 2005 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 if the headmistress could help her get in touch with actor and screenwriter Julian Fellowes. After she met Fellowes, he introduced her to a casting agent who was looking to cast an unknown in the film.[6] That same year she appeared in a recurring role in the BAFTA award-winning BBC adaption of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, as Ada Clare, one of the orphans.[11] Throughout 2006, she appeared in the TV series The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, opposite Jane Horrocks, and guest-starred on two ITV programs: Marple and the Trial & Retribution serial Sins of the Father.[12] In 2007, Mulligan played supporting roles in the film adaptation of Blake Morrison's memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? and in two one-off ITV television dramas: My Boy Jack, which also stars Daniel Radcliffe; and an adaptation of Northanger Abbey. She also played the main character, Sally Sparrow, in an episode of Doctor Who, entitled "Blink", which earned her a Constellation Award.[13] She rounded out 2007 by appearing in an acclaimed revival of The Seagull. Her performance, in which she played Nina to Kristin Scott Thomas' Arkadina and Chiwetel Ejiofor's Trigorin, was praised by critics. 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. Her anticipated recovery period was three to six weeks, but she was back on stage performing after only one week, although she could not wear a corset while in character due to stitches from the surgery.[11] For her debut Broadway performance in the 2008 United States transfer of The Seagull, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, but lost to Angela Lansbury.[14]

She next appeared in the coming-of-age 2009 release drama An Education, in which she was cast in her first lead role as Jenny. Mulligan was twenty-two when cast as Jenny, who is sixteen in the film.[15] The movie got rave reviews and commissioned $26 million against a $7.5 million budget at the box office.[16] She received vast 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 an Orange BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, which is voted on by the British public.[24]

After the success of An Education, she next starred opposite Susan Sarandon in The Greatest (2010) as the pregnant girlfriend of a boy who dies. The film's director considered Mulligan's involvement in the movie to have helped it "tremendously."[25] It opened to mostly indifferent reviews, with Ty Burr of the Boston Globe criticizing it for being "grueling and gently contrived", but was more positive in his assessment of Mulligan, and wrote she creates a "real, heartbreaking character out of a novice screenwriter’s patchwork moments."[26] After being selected to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,[27] she appeared in Never Let Me Go, an adaption of the 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel, which chronicled the three phases of the lives of its main characters 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. When the actress had first met Stone for the project, she explained that she did not want her role to be insignificant to the script and wanted her character to be a strong, which they both agreed to.[28] The movie, which was her first major studio project[29] and got amalgamated reception, was screened out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[30] She also provided vocals for the song "Write About Love" by Belle & Sebastian.[31] Script adjustments were made to accommodate Mulligan as Irene, who was originally written as a Latina woman in her late 20s, in the 2011 neo-noir thriller movie Drive.[32] Another film of hers, Shame, will film in New York in January 2011 and also star Michael Fassbender.[33] Mulligan will also star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2012 film adaption of The Great Gatsby as the superficial Daisy Buchanan.[34] Other upcoming projects for her include the lead role in an adaption of My Fair Lady[35] and a role in the Wentworth Miller-written Stoker,[36] which are both slated for 2012 releases.

Personal life

Mulligan started dating actor and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps co-star Shia LaBeouf in August 2009,[3] after being introduced to each other by the movie's director, Oliver Stone. "You could see their chemistry right away, and it was pretty powerful. They were completely professional on the set, but there was no mistaking what was happening," recalled Stone.[37] In October 2010 People magazine confirmed that they ended their relationship. After the split she briefly checked into a Best Western Hotel in Hollywood Hills in order to continue filming Drive near by.[38]

Mulligan acknowledged that she enjoyed her role as Elsie in My Boy Jack because she "could relate to her in every way", because in the film Elsie is vociferously opposed to her brother going to war - a similar feeling Mulligan had to her brother, who, after graduating from Oxford University, volunteered to serve with the Territorial Army in Iraq; he has since returned home.[11] Mulligan said that skiing is her favorite pastime, but she chose to practice the sport less in fear of losing an acting job because of an injury.[3] Mulligan, as well as other actresses, took part in the Safe Project by being photographed by Nick Haddow in the places they feel the safest, for a series to be auctioned off to raise awareness of sex trafficking.[39]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2005 Pride & Prejudice Kitty Bennet Film debut
2005 Bleak House Ada Clare Television program
15 episodes
2006 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Emily Pritchard Television program
6 episodes
2006-2007 Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father Emily Harrogate Television program
2 episodes
2006 Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery Violet Willett Television film
2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father? Rachel
2007 Waking The Dead Sister Bridgid Television program
Episode: "Wren Boys" (Series 6, Episode 1)
2007 Doctor Who Sally Sparrow Television program
Episode: "Blink" (Series 3, Episode 10)
Constellation Award for Best Female Performance in a Science Fiction Television Episode
2007 My Boy Jack Elsie Kipling Television film
2007 Northanger Abbey Isabella Thorpe Television film
2009 Public Enemies Carole
2009 An Education Jenny
See also: List of accolades received by An Education
2009 Brothers Cassie Willis
2010 The Greatest Rose
2010 Never Let Me Go Kathy British Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Palm Springs International Film Festival for Breakthrough Performance Award (also for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Women in Film and Television Award for Best Performance (also for An Education)
Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Winnie Gekko Palm Springs International Film Festival for Breakthrough Performance Award (also for Never Let Me Go)
2011 Drive Irene
2012 The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan
2012 My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle
2012 On Chesil Beach Florence Ponting
2012 Stoker

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